Alban’s blog

We upgraded to 2.3.1 the Wordpress release used by the Tryphon blogs. The time for me to improve two/three things in this blog.

Wordpress 2.3 adds the tag support. A good way to make posts more accessible. I installed the Sensitive Tag Cloud plugin because the default tag cloud widget isn’t configurable.

The Google Sitemap plugin must be upgraded too (to prevent nice sql errors). The last releases support the tag pages and include them into the sitemap.

I discovered the Presentation/Widgets menu in Wordpress by installing this plugin :-/ So I changed few things in the right sidebar … My feed reviews is now more visible with a RSS preview widget. This selection is the “Published articles” managed by our Tiny Tiny RSS instance.

The usage of a robots metatag into blog pages is often discussed. Most of blog posts suggest to modify your blog template to change the header.

To avoid this modification, I’ve tested the Meta Robots plugin created by Joost De Valk. But this plugin doesn’t provide exactly what I’m looking for.

Using recommendations like How to Make a WordPress Blog Duplicate Content Safe, my objective is adding the "noindex,follow" to every page except posts, home and categories pages. Paged home and categories pages (/page/2, …) should be tagged too.

Using the same way than the Joost De Valk’s plugin, I’ve created a simple robots meta Wordpress plugin to make this simple job. Just install and activate.

PS: I’ve read a lot of posts which suggest robots Disallow directives with wildcards (/*/feed, etc) .. But I’ve never seen a such thing in .. the robots.txt specifications