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My Links Central: WordPress Widget For SEO

Kevin Rio — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:13:56 +0000

My Links Central is a WordPress widget that allows you to manage multiple WordPress sidebars from one central administration panel. I developed this widget for an SEO expert who wanted to be able to manage links on his 100+ blogs without having to update every blog when he wanted to add links.

What It Does

My Links Central makes it easy to manage your back-links on your content sites.

Manage sidebars of multiple WordPress sites from one control panel
Easily add links to one central file that all widgets will feed from
Specifically made so that SEO experts can easily create links for all of their existing blogs
Add both a URL and the Anchor tag text. The title tag is automatically taken from the anchor text
No extra database needed. Everything is XML driven
Easily style the links using the class MyLinksCentral as an unordered list

Usage

There are two separate zip files. The first is the widget, which you install into WordPress. The second is the administrator panel that you upload via FTP to your main web server.

Configuring the Admin Panel

Upload the administrator files to a folder via FTP to whatever server you want
Navigate to the LinksControl.php file via your web browser
Click the ‘Add’ button and input the URL and Title of the links you want to add

Configuring the Widget

Install the widget via the plugins admin panel and go to the widgets page and drag it over
In the XML file box, put the absolute file path to the XML file that is located with the admin panel

Download

Download the Admin Panel

Download the Widget

WordPress Tip: Get Current Category Name

Kevin Rio — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:01:31 +0000

A quick way to get the current category in your WordPress blog is by using this code:


foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
      $nameOfCategory = $cat->cat_name;
}

This small script will help you to exclude certain blog posts from showing on certain main categories. It was a life saver when developing the Olympus-Tours blog.

How To Limit Archive Links in The Widget Sidebar

Kevin Rio — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:38:21 +0000

I created this tutorial after being asked several times by different WordPress themers how they can stop the WordPress archives widget from taking over their page, due to so many past posts.

Is your WordPress sidebar getting messy?

Use these steps to limit the number of archive links that appear in your WordPress widget sidebar.

Step 1

Navigate to your /wp-includes folder in your WordPress installation directory and open the default-widgets.php file.

Step 2

Find this line, which is on line 239 in Version 2.9.1:

‘monthly’, ‘show_post_count’ => $c))); ?>

Step 3

Change that line to:

‘monthly’, ‘show_post_count’ => $c, ‘limit’ => 5))); ?>

Where , ‘limit’ => 5 is added to signify how many archive posts you want to show.

Step 4

Now upload your default-widgets.php file to the server and check your sidebar!

Done limiting your widget archive listings

You should now only see however many archive posts you limited WordPress to showing.