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How to Exclude Pages from Search Results

How to Exclude Pages from Search Results

WordPress by default will include pages in the search results. More often than not, you will want users to only be able to see posts in the search results, not pages.
To change this default behavior, it’s actually quite easy.
Include the following lines of code in your functions.php file.
function vibeExcludePages($query) {

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WordPress & PostgreSQL

WordPress & PostgreSQL

Ever wanted to use WordPress with a PostgreSQL database? Now you can!
A user with the alias of “steinmicforma” has created a project on Sourceforge that utilizes a PostgreSQL database instead of MySQL. The WordPress Codex has limited documentation on how to do this, so someone took it upon themself to create a project …

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Top 5 WordPress SEO Plugins

Top 5 WordPress SEO Plugins

In today’s post, I want to go over some WordPress SEO plugins. These plugins are important to me because they help give my sites stronger SEO and become overall, more impactful in the search engines.
Here are just some of my favorite WordPress SEO plugins that I use on a regular basis.
SEO Smart Links
This plugin …

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Add a Message to Plugin Updates

Add a Message to Plugin Updates

Frederick Townes is both the CTO of Mashable and a friend of mine. He’s always doing new and cool things with WordPress. One of his latest and greatest creations is W3 Total Cache, which we utilize here on WP Vibe. Here’s a little something he did recently that is really cool.
He added …

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Remove WordPress AutoP Filter

Remove WordPress AutoP Filter

WordPress will automatically insert <p> and </p> tags for you to separate content breaks within a post or page. If, for some reason, you want or need to remove these, you can use either of the follow code bits.

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Remove the WordPress Version Generator

Remove the WordPress Version Generator

When 2.5.0 was released, the WordPress version generator was moved from being in the template itself into being a wp_head() hook instead. The hook is automatically added so you don’t have as much control over it.
If you want to remove the version:
meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.8.4″
Add this piece of code to your functions.php file …

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How to Submit Your Feed to Google Webmaster Tools

How to Submit Your Feed to Google Webmaster Tools

Adding your feed to Google Webmaster Tools is a fairly recent addition. SEO-wise, how does this help by having your feed submitted? It let’s Google know you’re staying fresh.
Like using the WordPress XML sitemaps plugin for normal sitemaps, it’s also good to submit your feed. This will let Google know immediately when …

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After the Deadline HTML Editor Support

After the Deadline HTML Editor Support

After the Deadline was a brilliant acquisition for Automattic. WordPress is in the business of helping people write and publish effectively. Everything they do should be focused around that in some capacity. After the Deadline does just that; it helps people proofread posts.
When the plugin was first released however, it did not …

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The WordPress Theme Author Resource Post

The WordPress Theme Author Resource Post

Through out the years creating various themes, I’ve found some wonderful resources to help get through the process as efficiently and effectively as possible. There are a lot of elements to creating a nice, clean theme and everyone has a different approach.
In my experience, I’ve found it helpful to group all of my resources together. …

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What’s the Best Twitter Plugin for WordPress?

What’s the Best Twitter Plugin for WordPress?

There are a lot of Twitter plugins and widgets out there for WordPress. So which one is the best? I’ve tested a lot of the various plugins available, but I have yet to find a plugin that has the functionality of Twitter Tools by Alex King. This plugin does an great job …

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