WordPress How-To

Using Robots.txt for WordPress Blogs

August 18th, 2009

Robots.txt file is very important for any website and especially for WordPress. Robots.txt helps search engines know what which content, file, directory is to be indexed and which is not. This helps avoid duplicate content on your blog.

Robots.txt for WordPress Self-Hosted blogs. This is just an example, you can customize it according to your blog.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

# Google Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Google AdSense
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Internet Archiver Wayback Machine
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

# digg mirror
User-agent: duggmirror
Disallow: /

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
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How to add a PayPal Button to your WordPress Blog

August 17th, 2009

If you would like to add a PayPal donation button to the posts, pages or sidebar of your WordPress blog, this video will show you how. Please note this is only for self-hosted WordPress blog.

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Writing and Publishing a Post on WordPress

August 14th, 2009

A WordPress How-To video, showing you how you can write and publish a post on your blog.

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How to Change Your WordPress Blog Theme

August 14th, 2009

WordPress.com has a lot of themes to choose from, if you have a hard time deciding on which one would work best for you, this video will talk you though the options and make sense of them. Please note that this can apply to self hosted WordPress blogs as well. For self hosted, you will have to first upload themes using a FTP.

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