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Do it Yourself: Optimize your WordPress Page Headings

Dec 16th, 2008
This is second article in the "Do it yourself" series and this one will be about heading tags. Most theme authors still do not pay particular attention to the layout and usage of header tags (H1, H2, H3...) in theme layouts. From the HTML optimization perspective, H1 is the most essential page tag and should appear as first on the page, and only once. H2 tags is next in hierarchy and you can have several of them on the page. Below each H2 you can have several H3 tags and so forth.
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Improving security in Wordpress plugins using Nonces

Nov 19th, 2008
Using a nonce (number used once)  is the best way to protect your plugin against a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) hacker-attack. Nonces are used on requests (saving options in admin, Ajax requests,  performing an action etc) and prevent unauthorized access by providing a secret 'key' and checking it each time the code is used.
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Do it Yourself: Optimize your WordPress Site Titles

Nov 10th, 2008
The purpose of this article is to show technique and examples of optimizing your WordPress site titles by directly editing the theme header file, where the title tag is usually printed out. By using this method you have greater control over the titles than any plugin can offer, so effectively you will be able to disable a plugin in the process, if you were using one (and one down is always good!). Your title tag is usually found in header.php theme file.
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Adding boxes to WordPress 2.5+ Write Post panel

Aug 25th, 2008
I have noticed few inconsistencies in the WordPress 2.6.1 code regarding the methods to add content boxes to the WordPress Write Post panel. The old way included usingadd_action('dbx_post_advanced', 'myplugin_old_custom_box' ); add_action('dbx_post_sidebar', 'myplugin_old_custom_box' );which would add a box to the Advanced section and Sidebar. However since version 2.5 dbx_post_sidebar actually adds a box to the end of Advanced section not the sidebar.
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