http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Fri, 24 May 2013 02:39:49 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1814 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:48:15 +0000 demetris 1814@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, Chris and Ian! Glad I could be of help. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1813 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:50:17 +0000 Ian Stewart 1813@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Fixed the icon. Thanks, Demetris. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1810 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:22:45 +0000 Chris 1810@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>@Demetris:</p> <p>Diff tested, confirmed and uploaded. (the time format thing)</p> <p>Thanks for your help!</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1809 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:25:04 +0000 demetris 1809@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks!</p> <p>The screen icon code should be OK. I use it since the start of the year in Tangofy -- <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tangofy/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tangofy/</a> -- and no issues have been reported so far. :-)</p> <p>But it is not used in many plugins or themes. Maybe people don’t know about it.</p> <p>I run a search in a directory with about 200 themes and plugins, half of them have been updated for 2.7, and it only returned two instances, in two plugins by Lester Chan. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1808 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:05:28 +0000 Ian Stewart 1808@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks! I'll test it out. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1807 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:56:25 +0000 demetris 1807@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Ian, unless I got something wrong, this was easier than I expected. Just one line in the function thematic_time_display().</p> <p>I also did one change in thematic-options.php, to use the core-supplied function for the 32x32 icon instead of hard-coded HTML.</p> <p>This is the same function used in default WP settings pages, with one condition added, to check if the function exists.</p> <p><a href="http://op111.net/c/tmp/thematic-r386-date-icon.diff" rel="nofollow">http://op111.net/c/tmp/thematic-r386-date-icon.diff</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1804 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:27:40 +0000 Ian Stewart 1804@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>If you do want to submit a patch for no.1 that'd be awesome. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1802 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:14:36 +0000 demetris 1802@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>You are welcome, Ian.</p> <p>I see no. 2 has already been taken care of. :-) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1793 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:35:40 +0000 Ian Stewart 1793@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for pointing this out, Demetris. Esp. the quote from Matt. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/2-suggestions-for-09-l10n-improvement-and-a-seo-issue#post-1792 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:13:01 +0000 demetris 1792@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hello, Ian!</p> <p>Congratulations on the work being done on 0.9. Thematic is getting better and better!</p> <p>To my suggestions:</p> <p>1. HONOURING CUSTOM DATE FORMAT</p> <p>Thematic does not use the date format set in Dashboard &gt; Settings &gt; General. (I can try and submit a patch for review if you are interested. I’ll just copy the code from a theme I trust, like Sandbox, Simplish, or Tarski.)</p> <p>2. USING AUTOGENERATED EXCERPTS AS META DESCRIPTIONS.</p> <p>If a post/page has no explicit manual excerpt, it may be better to not add a meta description at all. I recently posted a request about this on the HeadSpace forum:</p> <p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/option-to-disable-autogeneration-of-descriptions-if-there-is-no-manual-excerpt" rel="nofollow">http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/option-to-disable-autogeneration-of-descriptions-if-there-is-no-manual-excerpt</a></p> <p>Note the Matt Mullenweg quote. It is interesting.</p> <p>See also:</p> <p>The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins<br /> <a href="http://op111.net/67" rel="nofollow">http://op111.net/67</a></p> <p>I did a little research on the subject while writing this and, while there is no way to tell, other than extensive testing, I tend to believe that AUTO-generated meta descriptions are not a good idea.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> -dk </p>