Bloggers always do not need to be using a plugin or widget in order to be customizing their theme. This series of posts shows how anyone can edit their theme coding directly.
The bad news is that changing your theme templates can seriously affect how your blog displays in your web browser. The good news is that your original display appearance can be restored by making a few minor changes in your CSS stylesheet.
To understand exactly what I am doing, it would help if you knew something about How To Use HTML Meta Tags. In addition, this post is part of a long series of posts on Customizing Wordpress Themes. You should browse through this category of posts in sequence, starting with the first post listed for background information on how to customize Wordpress themes. The entire topic of Replacing the All in One SEO Plugin will be covered in its own series of posts.
This blog is about providing practical information that the typical blogger can actually put immediately into use.
Just because a Wordpress Theme is advertised as being Search Engine Optimized does not mean that it actually is. Usually they are selling the sizzle, rather than the steak.
Hackers have bots crawling the Web looking for blogs running specific versions of Wordpress. But apparently, Wordpress is more interested in claiming credit for creating your blog, then they are in protecting bloggers from this well known security issue.
No blogger is worth his salt unless they know how to edit their own Wordpress theme. With a little bit of practice, anyone can learn how to do it.
Bloggers do not need plugins and widgets in order to customize their blog. Once you know how, editing your Wordpress theme template is really quite easy.
Some of the most important search engine optimization plugins, like the Add Link Attribute plugin by Kaf Oseo are relatively unknown.
