Yeah

About bloody time, Joost de Valk (plugin author) argued nofollow wasn’t SEO damaging despite all the evidence and left the damaging nofollow features in his WordPress SEO plugin for at least a year damaging countless webmasters SERPs!

Better late than never I suppose, would have been better to admit being wrong in 2010 and update the WordPress SEO plugins code ASAP, but I guess that would have made him look bad.

I don’t understand people who don’t learn from others, I’m fecking awesome at SEO, but I’m not infallible, I’m sure I’m wrong about something SEO wise and if someone pointed that out to me (proved I was wrong) I’d thank them for improving my understanding of something very important to me (I do it all the time in other areas if my understanding). I guess it’s my science background, good scientists want their understanding to be challenged and expanded upon, it’s how we as a species move forward. Denying the truth because you don’t want to admit you are wrong holds back progress, the SEO plugin’s code has been wrong for over a year, if this was something important that’s a years potential progress lost.

The plugin still uses noindex to block sections you don’t want indexing, this still wastes link benefit, but it’s no where near as damaging as adding nofollow links. Now if he took the canonical code I’m using with the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin which ONLY deals with conserving link benefit, Joast would have a WordPress SEO plugin that causes no SEO damage. I’m not that bothered about developing WordPress plugins (already have too much work with SEO clients and WordPress SEO themes!), I have no problem with a plugin developer using the canonical URL concept to improve a WordPress SEO plugin. You never know I might use/recommend it if it improved the Stallion SEO theme output.

David

Stallion also links into the Timthumb.php script to keep the thumbnails small, you can upload a 1000px by 500px image and it will generate a thumbnail using the exact size (say 180px by 120px) you set under the Stallion options page. The thumbnails are also used in combination with the Stallion SEO Super Comments Feature: if you click the “WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads” link on the bottom right corner of this comment it takes you to the Stallion SEO Super Comments version of the comment (a Google indexable SEO’d page generated from this comment) and it’s using a thumbnail from this post (all automated). The Stallion SEO Super Comments pages can generate SERPs in their own right on sites that have a fair number of comments.

This will soon all be added to Talian 6.3.

The time you spent coding the above into Talian 3 you could have setup Stallion 6.2 and generated a custom css file etc… to take into account your modifications

David

[[please delete this hereunder if you wish not to show piece of codes to the readers]]
I managed to add a thumbnail to the category page. I am grab the first image from the post and display it side by side the link.

Here’s the code to add to the funcion.php
<?php
function catch_that_image() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = '';
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all('//i’, $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];

if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “http://www.job-interview-site.com/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}

Once done, you can simply call the function within the loop to display the first image from the post.

That is what I’ve added to the category page before the link to the post:

<a href="”><img src="” alt=”" title=”" width=”100″ height=”100″ />

Ziv

> WordPress is supposed to save your old widget settings (not tested the feature).

Yes it works. The reason W added this feature is because people are using second theme for mobile devices. So they need to switch back and forth.

BTW: If next Talian/Stalion versions will be mobile friendly (like twenty-eleven), you’d rock.

Since you are running Talian 3 you know you can install Talian 5 and Stallion 6 independently?

Install Talian 5 for example (Stallion 6 is better), activate, test it out if you don’t like it switch back to Talian 3. Worse case scenario is some of your widgets might need re-adding though apparently in WordPress 3.3* that’s been fixed/improved, WordPress is supposed to save your old widget settings (not tested the feature).

David

If you are set on not upgrading from Talian 3 look to see if there’s any thumbnail plugins as I’m not making any changes to the Talian 3 code (not looked at Talian 3 in years).

You are missing out on loads of features sticking with Talian 3, Talian 5 (40+ options) was a big update and Stallion 6 (250+ options) was a big update from Talian 5.

David