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In this highly optimized episode of WordPress Weekly, I interviewed Michael Torbert who is more commonly known as hallsofmontezuma throughout the WordPress community. He is now the developer of the most popular plugin in the plugin repository, theAll In One SEO pack. We discuss what it’s like to maintain an insanely popular plugin, how difficult it has been to work with the WordPress code, thoughts on SEO in general, and the question of the night went to David Peralty for asking if SEO could be damaged by mis configuring the plugin. You’ll have to listen to the show to get the answer. On top of that, I give my plugin pick of the week, the WordPress job of the week and much more on episode 24 of WordPress weekly.

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News:

WordPress 2.7 is nearing feature freeze. Once that happens, we should start to see announcements in the dashboard regarding beta releases. Based on everything I have read, 2.7 is on schedule to be released on November 10th. If something major is discovered during the beta trials, the date of release will obviously be changed.

Didn’t get the chance to mention this on the show but I wanted to pass along a happy birthday to HackWordPress.com as they have turned 1 year old.

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I cover feedback related to last weeks episode. We encourage any feedback you may have with regards to the show. You can either email me via jeffro at jeffro2pt0.com or you can simply leave us a comment on the blog.

Plugin Of The Week:

Jeff - Exclude Pages – This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus). Pages which are children of excluded pages also do not show up in menu listings. (An alert in the editing screen, underneath the “include” checkbox allows you to track down which ancestor page is affecting child pages in this way.) You could do this just as easily by adding exclusion arguments to the WP_LIST_PAGES function but this plugin takes those steps out of the process.

WordPress Job Of The Week:

This job was published on October 10th on the WeblogToolsCollection.com Job board. Sure Foods Living is looking for someone who can upgrade WordPress 2.1 to the current version. The individual at one point had someone to help them customize their site but that person is no longer available. Also, because of the upgrade, this person needs to change templates since the current one is not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. The potential client is asking for people who are qualified and for quotes on how much this project would cost. If you are interested in this job, please contact alison at surefoodsliving.com

Announcements:

Jane Wells who works for Automattic in the user experience/usability department will be our special one hour guest on Halloween night. That is Friday, October 31st, 2008. So if you’re interested in talking usability in WordPress, definitely mark this date on your calendar.

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While not broadly advertised, I happened to catch Brian Gardner for about an hour to discuss his announcement regarding going open source. During the interview, we discuss topics such as the grey area of the GPL, his new business model, his new approach to themes, how similar his business model is to the WordPress.com model, the state of themes in WordPress and much more.

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vBulletin MediaWiki Skin

The purpose of this mod is to get your MediaWiki to look like your forums… A lot of people have been having trouble getting their Wikis to look streamlined with their…

I have been selling forum skins since 2002 and this is the “first” and only skin increase. I tried to be as fair as possible and only raised the price $5.00

* Reasons for small skin price increase (from $29.99 to $34.95):*

1. Operating Costs. As we all know the price of everything has…

The IPB skins will be updated to 2.3.6 within the next few days!

James

Our first Multi-skin package has been released! Play Diablo 3, Warhammer Online or Age of Conan? You will get all three of these wicked skins in one discounted priced package. *The purchase of this pack also makes you eligible for two free skins! Thats a total value of $150 for only $75!* More…

That’s right the next ten (*10*) person buying the *Bluefox* skin can use one of the *10 Vouchers* code below to buy skin for only *$10.00* !!!
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First in first serve!*

Grab one of the code below and entering it just before checkout to receive a massive $19.99 off the price of the bluefox…

Hi everyone! The long awaited release of BattleGear is here! Be the first in your neighborhood to own this wicked skin Available now for purchase.

Skilltest was never coded properly or to the original design. It is being recoded from the ground up (at quite a substantial cost I might add) to the original design specs and will be ready in about a week. Attached is what it will look like. The sidebar will only display on the forumhome and of…

So tell the truth, were you popular in high school? Did you have a lot of friends, and a wide social circle? Were you an athlete? Did your accomplishments extend far outside the halls of your alma mater to neighboring schools and counties? If so, then congratulations; you’re probably in the minority of those reading this article. What does this example have to do with link popularity you ask; more than you think. Just as in high school, on the World Wide Web, your website is known by the company it keeps. Link to the wrong site or “hang with the wrong crowd” and you could be ostracized by the search engine community before you even begin. Achieve quality inbound links from a wide range of popular kids on the internet, however, and watch your site’s online profile soar. Sounds simple, and it is, if you know what to do…

This is just a short mini-tutorial explaining how to backup parts of the mySQL database using phpMyAdmin & also via SSH (Secure Shell) access. This tutorial should be of use to most people, as it’s an important part of any website/forum maintenance! So, let’s get started…

Backing Up Using phpMyAdmin

Note: Most good hosts provide phpMyAdmin (mySQL administration). If you do not know where it is or even if it exists on your server, just get in touch with your host!

1. Login to PHPMyAdmin.
2. Select the database you wish to use.
3. On the navigation bar on the top select “Export” (besides SQL, Structure, Search, Query… etc.)
4. You should now be presented with a nifty little page which shows all the tables in the database, SQL Options and Save types.*
5. To backup the whole database click “Select All” under the list of tables in the page.
6. To…

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Please note that InvisionFree “Free Forum Hosting” is currently undergoing a massive regeneration project due to a server wide update to the backend code for which all is forums will run off. Because of this InvisionFree is changing names to ZetaBoards. So resources are now ZetaBoard friendly!

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Just letting you know that a small update to the Afterdark skin is now available in the Customer Area (http://www.vbstyles.com/forum/vbcart.php?do=memberarea)

When I updated the skin to vBulletin 3.7.3 I forgot to close a div that was causing rendering problems in Internet Explorer.

To…

Just letting you know that Jelsoft has released 2 new security patches for * vBulletin 3.7.3 PL1 and 3.6.11 PL1
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—Quote (Originally by vBulletin.com)—
A report was published recently pointing to potential flaws within the random number generator in PHP applications who use a weak seed…