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Talian SEO Theme Customizing the WordPress Navigation Menu
I added a page about my AdSense Income this week (feel free to comment on your AdSense income there) and it resulted in the navigation menu below the header (the orange buttons with white text) wrapping and looking terrible.
This is caused because there’s only so much space available in that location and four buttons with so much text was too much for the Talian theme out the box.
I really wanted this page and link on that menu with that text, so edited the css to make it work and here’s what I did.
Loaded style.css in a text editor.
Found
.navigators { float: right; width: 490px; } .navigators ul { margin: 0px; float: left; width: 490px; list-style-type: none; padding: 36px 0px 0px 0px; }and changed to
.navigators { float: right; width: 620px; } .navigators ul { margin: 0px; float: left; width: 620px; list-style-type: none; padding: 36px 0px 0px 0px; }Changed 490 to 620 twice.
Saved the file and uploaded over the original.
That’s it.
You can see this has pushed the button like links under the blog description and name of the site (compare the navigation menu to this site that uses default Talian style.css and fits fine, just 3 page links) and so if you did this with a site with a really long blog description this could mess up.
With my navigation page links you can see I use a lot of text, this is for SEO reasons:
* WordPress SEO Plugins
* Google Sitemap
* WordPress Theme Features
* AdSense Income
I could have shortened these a little, but it could have hurt those pages SERPs.
If you have less pages or much shorter titles you might not need to make the width as wide as I have, I went from the default 490px to 620px which is quite a lot. If you find your page titles don’t quite fit maybe adding an extra 30px padding will be enough, experiment: as long as you keep backups of the original it’s easy enough to reupload the original files and fix your mistakes :)
Another way to make these page links fit is to exclude some of them.
On this site I use a static home page (a WordPress feature) and don’t want that page to show on the navigation menu, so have excluded it.
I loaded header.php in a text editor and changed:
wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1'to
wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1&exclude=12'The number 12 in my case represents the post number of the page I wanted excluded. To find the post number you need to edit the page you want excluded and read the post number from the URL.
When you edit a page the URL will look something like this-
post=12 tells us that page is number 12, so we use &exclude=12 to exclude it.
If you have several pages you want to exclude from the navigation menu add them all.
For example if you had 3 pages with the post numbers 1, 7, 12 and 18 your code would look like this-
wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1&exclude=1,7,12,18'I use this coding on a few sites where there are too many pages to ever fit on the navigation menu below the header.
David Law
Talian SEO Theme Customizing the WordPress Navigation Menu
How to Link to Other Sites From WordPress?
Any idea how I can be able to link the tabs on top of this theme (seo tutorial, adsense income etc) to my other websites, I want to integrate the sites together, I have tried a number of things but none of them seems to work out, I am using talian theme.
Thanks
Linking to External Sites From a WordPress Blog
Hi Chuka,
Yes it’s possible to link to other sites, but not without editing the template files.
As it happens the SEO Tutorial link on my navigation menu was created the same way as you would add a link to another site since the SEO Tutorial page is called “SEO Tutorial for WordPress” which is too much text for a link there, so I added it to the template file and used the exclude function to not show that link twice on the menu.
Load header.php in a text editor like Notepad and find
Below this add your link with this format:
This will put the link at the front of other navigation links, if you want it after your current links paste the above type of link code above the end </ul> tag instead
link code here
This would result in the link showing after your current links.
Save the file and upload over the original header.php file. Don’t forget to make a backup of your original header.php file.
That should do it.
David Law
Linking to External Sites From a WordPress Blog
WordPress SEO Friendly Permalinks
Hi Chuka,
The fix to your links to other sites in the navigation menu shouldn’t have any impact on the WordPress SEO Friendly Permalinks created by WordPress, the Talian theme doesn’t create the permalinks it’s all WordPress core using mod_rewrite.
Sounds like you’ve made an error in the editing, have you tried converting to WordPress SEO Friendly Permalinks using the unedited Talian theme? If it works with the original header.php file strongly suggests it’s a editing mistake (make sure you edit files in a text editor like Notepad NOT WordPad, MS Word or anything that adds formatting like Frontpage and other WYSIWYG type HTML editors).
If both fail suggests something like the .htaccess file is missing (incorrect code added).
Did you setup the .htaccess file as described within the WordPress permalinks setting? If your not sure see the SEO friendly permalinks link above for examples as without the .htaccess file the links to posts/categories etc… won’t work correctly since the mod_rewrite rules aren’t in place.
If you are sure everything is working correctly try disabling all plugins see if that fixes the problem. If it does enable plugins one at a time to find the culprit.
As you probably read WordPress SEO Friendly Permalinks are important, but if you can’t have them it’s not the end of the world. Just one of many SEO ideals that not every site gets.
David Law
WordPress SEO Friendly Permalinks
Talian SEO/AdSense WordPress Theme Update
The current users of Talian with SEO/AdSense version 03 will have noticed I’ve changed the Talian theme on this site quite a bit over the last few days (been testing the changes here).
Not quite finished the updates yet, need to clean up the code a bit, but almost got all the features I want.
Biggest change is a complete rewrite of the commenting code. Since WordPress 2.7 came out I’ve been wanting to add the paginated commenting and the ability to respond to specific comments in a threaded format (activated on this site now). You can see what this looks like on this page. I currently have it set to show 30 comments per page. There is a problem with activating this in WordPress 2.7 to 2.8.3 which I’ll explain in a reply to this comment to show the Reply to feature :)
You will notice my comments are highlighted with an orange dashed border. When the admin posts it now gets highlighted. Considered putting a different background colour, but having three background colours was confusing.
Have edited the css significantly, for example have removed all the font-size=Xpx which is not very good for usability, switched to em. Fixed various css issues with headers (H1 to H6), original Talian had left floated them for no obvious reason, floats removed now.
Increased the width of the Talian theme (now 1,000 px) to allow for the use of the 336×280 AdSense ad unit within the posts content. Gives us a little more space to play with.
Added a random image selector for the banner like image near the top of a post, so far made 6 new images that are randomly selected (refresh the page to see it change). Very easy to add more or switch to less images. I got the idea from the Cutline theme an SEO/AdSense version of which I sell as well.
Removed the Translation links from the menu: unfortunately Google has changed the way it treats nofollow links and since we don’t want to send 7 links to Google translator site I had them as nofollow links. Nofollow links now destroy PR/link benefit (for the Google search engine) so should be avoided at all costs now!!
Removed all nofollow links I could from the theme. Login links are now created by using a form button, since Google doesn’t follow form buttons of the type I used they won’t treat them as links. This will protect a lot of lost link benefit.
I also removed the RSS comment links from specific post, for two reasons. 1. I had them as nofollow links before Google made the nofollow changes, so I had to remove the nofollow. 2. If we allowed Google to index this links we’d be wasting a lot of link benefit for little gain. I don’t know of many people of follow comments on specific post and there’s always the main RSS comments feed which shows all recent comments.
Speaking of which I removed nofollow from the main RSS links (comment and posts feeds). There’s a small risk of SERPs damage doing this, so if you notice your comments feeds ranking better than your main posts let me know (happened to me once a while back).
Have reinstated the ability for our blog readers to add their URL to a comment, but have replaced the author link with a form button link (as described above). This means our commenter’s can have a clickable link, but we don’t loose link benefit. Default WordPress themes use nofollow on comment links, so the PR/link benefit associated with comment links is lost!! You can see these links in action on this comment, my link is a form link.
Still got a fair amount to do, so not sure when I’ll release this. Because I’ve made so many changes I’m going to consider this version 04, don’t worry though will be sending it out free to all version 03 customers. When I finally get this finished ideally you’d install it from scratch as a new theme and rebuild your widgets menu since I’ve renamed the widgets to make it easier to setup a blog wit SEO/AdSense in mind (easier to copy what I do).
David Law
Talian SEO/AdSense WordPress Theme Update
WordPress Nofollow Comment Links SEO Damage!
As mentioned in the post above there’s a problem with using the Reply to comments function (comment_reply_link).
It’s nofollow again, WordPress development has for reasons I don’t understand added a nofollow attribute to the Reply to links. This means if you have a heavily commented blog you could have hundreds if not thousands of these Reply links! I have a site on jokes that’s got almost 700 comments on just one of the jokes pages! You could very easily throw away half your link benefit through these links!
I have a temporary solution, you edit a core WordPress file which removes the nofollow attributes. I’ve been hesitant to release a themes with the Reply to comments functions enabled because currently (WordPress 2.8.3) it will require a WordPress hack of the main core files, but I have to update the themes, so have no choice.
When I release this theme I’ll include the hacked file (just one file needs changing).
I’ve been trying to get WordPress development team to change this bug, but no luck so far, tried 3 ways:
If filosofo in the trac ticket creates a patch to remove the nofollow hopefully it will be incorporated into WordPress 2.8.4, until then to use the comment_reply_link function it is strongly advised to hack the core WordPress file wp-includes/comment-template.php to remove the nofollow attribute.
I also have a few other things I want to add to my themes, since links within comments are nofollow I’m going to take a crack at turning them into form button links. I can definitely do it by hacking core WordPress files, but for you guys I like to keep it all at theme level.
Hopefully I’ll get this release out later this month.
Wish me luck :)
David Law
WordPress Nofollow Comment Links SEO Damage!
WordPress Threaded Comments and SEO
Another comment to show the new nesting of threaded comments I’ve added to Talian with AdSense /SEO version 4.
Been working on the new code for the Talian theme for days now and you would not believe the pain in the … it’s been! I’m trying to keep to the original Talian theme look as much as possible since it’s a nice WordPress theme design, this makes it far harder to add new WordPress features than compared to dealing with a theme that was no set look.
Had real trouble getting the alternating colours on the comments to work in a way I was happy with, I wanted them to look slightly different to how they are now, but there was no way to achieve this: I wanted the white/mustard colour blocks to end as the next child comment started, currently the colour surrounds all child comments (looking online all other WordPress themes do it this way, so guess there’s no easy way to get a different look).
Will be interesting to see the SEO impact of switching to threaded comments, there will be more comments on each paginated comment page.
David Law
WordPress Threaded Comments and SEO
Move WordPress Comments Plugin
Just went to a LOT of hassle to convert the comments about the Talian theme into how they probably would have been threaded if comment threading was available 2+ years ago.
This took editing the database directly, loads of fun searching for specific comment IDs then working out which comments should be related to each other and linking them together.
I must be MAD!
You can truly see how the nested comments feature works now.
Would be nice is there was a Move WordPress Comments Plugin for moving threaded comments around.
David Law
Move WordPress Comments Plugin
Internet Explorer CSS Compatibility Issues
Also I’ve had MAJOR issues with the form/button links background colour on comments (like the Template Creator links) because Internet Explorer is rubbish at CSS! I want what it looks like now, the links background colours blend into the comments background (white or mustard).
Now with with FireFox it’s easy, just use inherit to inherit the background colour of the Li element the form/button link is within.
Internet Explorer is so crap it ignores inherit and so it gave the standard grey background colour for a button link!
In the end I had to write 30 lines of CSS code instead of 4 lines! Had to repeat the CSS code for each child comment depth, which leads to a small problem (that I bet no one will notice, but I’m a perfectionist!).
If you set “Enable threaded (nested) comments X levels deep” and X is 6 or more some author links will have the wrong background colour (white when it should be mustard and mustard when it should be white).
I could add more lines of CSS code to deal with levels 6, 7, 8 etc… but it bloats the CSS file, so I suggest you stick to the default 5 nested comments like you see on this site.
David Law
Internet Explorer CSS Compatibility Issues
WordPress English Language Translation
Wouldn’t be possible for me to add a your language to English as a translation link since it’s assumed the blog will be English with regards the translation links and so when you click a translation link it translates from English to chosen language. You could edit the translation links for another language though (rather than from English, from your language)a case of editing the code a bit.
That being said in version 4 of Talian with AdSense/SEO I’ve removed the translation links because of SEO reasons. Also advise anyone still using version 3 of Talian to remove the translation widget. Google no longer honors nofollow links as it should!
David Law
WordPress English Language Translation