How to add Meta Tags to WP Pages and Harden Your WP BLOG!

Decorative Ceiling Tiles · #1 May 28th, 2011, 09:49 PM

How do I add meta tags to pages in wordpress?

justnet · #2 May 28th, 2011, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Decorative Ceiling Tiles

How do I add meta tags to pages in wordpress?

Meta tags are over rated

Decorative Ceiling Tiles · #3 May 28th, 2011, 10:10 PM

Maybe so but I still like to use them.

2busy · #4 May 28th, 2011, 10:19 PM

Get a plugin like Yoast WP SEO that will let you either make your own metatags for keywords and descriptions for each page or set up a formula to create them for you automatically from the content of your posts/pages.

Before you populate your site with a bunch of stuff you should go to your control panel and visit phpMyAdmin and download a copy of your WP database in .sql format. Save an original copy in case something goes wrong along the way, it's always good to keep a copy of stuff before editing. Open the file in a good text editor like Notepad++ (free download!) and do a find/replace on the prefix of your WP tables. You can edit it in the interface, but it is easier and faster to download it to fix it. Change everything from wp_ to qlu_ or mzo_ or anything you want. That makes it almost impossible to have your site hacked. After you do the find/replace go back to your CP and use phpMyAdmin to drop all the tables. DO NOT DROP THE DATABASE itself, only the tables. Now upload the .SQL file. Now you will be locked out of your site until you open up a copy of your wp-config file (you can get a copy via ftp if you didn't download a copy before you started) and change the wp_ prefixes in there to match your new prefixes.

There are other things you can do to have a more secure WP site, but this is something basic, easy and better done before you have lots of stuff to backup and maybe replace.

Decorative Ceiling Tiles · #5 May 28th, 2011, 10:47 PM

This is one of the moments when I feel so dumb again... I will sleep on this one and will bug you tomorrow for a Dummy Version on this one..:-)

justnet · #6 May 29th, 2011, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Decorative Ceiling Tiles

This is one of the moments when I feel so dumb again... I will sleep on this one and will bug you tomorrow for a Dummy Version on this one..:-)

Not dumb.
It's just learning new tools.
It's good for you, like eating your veggies.

daiarian · #7 May 29th, 2011, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Decorative Ceiling Tiles

This is one of the moments when I feel so dumb again.)

Join the club, I dread attempting something like this in case I blow up my PC

2busy · #8 May 29th, 2011, 04:03 PM

The first time I did it, it was scary, I had never even looked at phpMyAdmin before and knew nothing about mySQL either. I hand edited each table following instructions I found online at a place where I trusted the discussions. The instructions above are the short easy way to do it.

In CP, click on phpMyAdmin.. This takes you to a page with a list of all the databases you have on the host and shows the number of tables each one holds.
Click on the name of the database in the list on the left that you want to download.
It will show you a page listing all the tables with checkboxes. At the bottom of the list there is a link to check them all or you can manually check them all.
Now look at the top where there are tabs for Structure, Operations, Import and Export and other stuff and click Export. This opens a normal window for downloading a file, save it to a place you can find it easily, like your desktop.
Now open the .sql file and do a find/replace, changing all the wp_ in the file to pq8tj_ or m39dg_ or eo_ or whatever you want to change it to.
Tip: if you have already downloaded a copy of your wp-config file you can open it and do a find and replace at the same time. No other changes. Save the files for uploading. Use ftp to replace the wp-config file on your domain and then go back to phpMyAdmin. Get back to the same database you were in before if you logged out and check off all the boxes again. On the same line where the Check All link is look just to the right where you'll see a dropdown that says With Selected. Click that to see Drop as one of the choices and select Drop. This is where you drop all the tables but not the database. Then click the Import tab, browse to the .sql file on your computer and import it. If you did not drop the tables there will be errors, but if you have followed along, that's it. You're done. Unless you made some peculiar choices (like different charsets)during the creation of your WP database you don't need to make any choices from the boxes on the screen, just import.

The one place where you might mess up is if you use some naughty text-handling app to do the find and replace. That's why I suggest Notepad++ if you are on Windows and TextWrangler (also free) if you're on a Mac.

You can do it.

Decorative Ceiling Tiles · #9 May 30th, 2011, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2busy

The first time I did it, it was scary, I had never even looked at phpMyAdmin before and knew nothing about mySQL either. I hand edited each table following instructions I found online at a place where I trusted the discussions. The instructions above are the short easy way to do it.

In CP, click on phpMyAdmin.. This takes you to a page with a list of all the databases you have on the host and shows the number of tables each one holds.
Click on the name of the database in the list on the left that you want to download.
It will show you a page listing all the tables with checkboxes. At the bottom of the list there is a link to check them all or you can manually check them all.
Now look at the top where there are tabs for Structure, Operations, Import and Export and other stuff and click Export. This opens a normal window for downloading a file, save it to a place you can find it easily, like your desktop.
Now open the .sql file and do a find/replace, changing all the wp_ in the file to pq8tj_ or m39dg_ or eo_ or whatever you want to change it to.
Tip: if you have already downloaded a copy of your wp-config file you can open it and do a find and replace at the same time. No other changes. Save the files for uploading. Use ftp to replace the wp-config file on your domain and then go back to phpMyAdmin. Get back to the same database you were in before if you logged out and check off all the boxes again. On the same line where the Check All link is look just to the right where you'll see a dropdown that says With Selected. Click that to see Drop as one of the choices and select Drop. This is where you drop all the tables but not the database. Then click the Import tab, browse to the .sql file on your computer and import it. If you did not drop the tables there will be errors, but if you have followed along, that's it. You're done. Unless you made some peculiar choices (like different charsets)during the creation of your WP database you don't need to make any choices from the boxes on the screen, just import.

The one place where you might mess up is if you use some naughty text-handling app to do the find and replace. That's why I suggest Notepad++ if you are on Windows and TextWrangler (also free) if you're on a Mac.

You can do it.

2busy,

Thanks so much, you are just amazing at helping out. I wish I could ever be as useful.

freddycnx · #10 May 31st, 2011, 12:00 PM

Gonna need some VampireSkunk help with this for sure!!!

Decorative Ceiling Tiles · #11 May 31st, 2011, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by freddycnx

Gonna need some VampireSkunk help with this for sure!!!

I feel you! This one makes my head spin round and round too. Thank got I got help from one of my Angels.

Convergence · #12 May 31st, 2011, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Decorative Ceiling Tiles

How do I add meta tags to pages in wordpress?

WordPress › All in One SEO Pack « WordPress Plugins

2busy · #13 May 31st, 2011, 02:55 PM

Don't use All in One SEO pack. Unless you are prepared to manually edit settings for all your posts and pages. Yoast SEO for WP runs circles around it . It even lets you import all your All-in-One settings so you can see how bad they are. It had my policy pages indexed - and does not give you a way to turn off comments RSS feed. I paid for All in One, but dropped it after I tried the Yoast SEO product. I had All in One on all my sites but it is obsolete IMHO.

Convergence · #14 May 31st, 2011, 03:04 PM

Have a link?

daiarian · #15 May 31st, 2011, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Convergence

Have a link?

It can be loaded from within WP

2busy · #16 May 31st, 2011, 03:12 PM

To read more and get to know the author better ( Joost de Valk) http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/ and some simple do's and don'ts: http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme/

Convergence · #17 May 31st, 2011, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daiarian

It can be loaded from within WP

I asked for a link because "WordPress SEO by Yoast" is only v0.4.1 and I wanted to make sure there wasn't another out there somewhere - like to read up on the problems folks have had with it.

daiarian · #18 May 31st, 2011, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Convergence

I asked for a link because "WordPress SEO by Yoast" is only v0.4.1 and I wanted to make sure there wasn't another out there somewhere - like to read up on the problems folks have had with it.

yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme/ yoast.com/wp-plugin-review/ these might help

Kevin · #19 May 31st, 2011, 03:32 PM

Only caution I have on the Yoast plugin is the XML sitemap generator. Our kayak fishing blog is over 12,000 posts now (which really isn't all that large if you think about it structurally) and I had to turn off the sitemapping. Publishing a post would absolutely seize our server up. And it's not cheap hosting either.

Short of that, the mechanics of the true SEO portion of the Yoast plugin are wonderful.

freddycnx · #20 May 31st, 2011, 06:29 PM

I spent a good few hours looking at Yoast but some of the negative reviews on bugs and glitches turned me off. I wonder how much of that was disinformation? 2busy is clearly well respected here so I am gonna give Yoast a try. Thanks for the info on 'All in one SEO pack' As a newbie I had no idea. I dont have a clue what an XML sitemap generator is? I will be using data feeds on all my sites in due course, and will also look at adsense in the round. Do I need to be concerned about Kevin's observation in respect of these? Thanks for all this rich info.

freddycnx · #21 May 31st, 2011, 07:28 PM

Additionally I need to backup my WP sites - can anyone recommend an automated simple backup plugin for a newbie? I see there are many to choose from?

2busy · #22 May 31st, 2011, 07:31 PM

If you build a website, Googie wants you to create a sitemap. The format of the sitemap is to be in xml. The Yoast plugin generates that sitemap for you with your settings if you turn it on. There are settings to include or not include any types of posts or pages or categories from your sitemap. On a strictly WP site I have mine turned on, it will allow you to include images if you like - or not. Most of my WP sites are partially WP and partially html. For those sites I turn off the Yoast sitemap plug in and use a different one, Sitemap Generator. For the html part I use the Cusimano sitemap generator, that makes it simple to remove pages you don't want in the sitemap.

daiarian · #23 June 1st, 2011, 03:29 PM

This is a useful youtube tutorial for Yoast

youtube.com/watch?v=MLBpmeXjse4

freddycnx · #24 June 2nd, 2011, 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daiarian

This is a useful youtube tutorial for Yoast

youtube.com/watch?v=MLBpmeXjse4

Many thanks - I used this video to set up Yoast today. A couple of areas I am not sure about though. Need to study more!

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#1 May 28th, 2011, 09:49 PM
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#4 May 28th, 2011, 10:19 PM
2busy ABW Ambassador Join Date: January 17th, 2005 Location: Tropical Mountaintop Posts: 5,407	Get a plugin like Yoast WP SEO that will let you either make your own metatags for keywords and descriptions for each page or set up a formula to create them for you automatically from the content of your posts/pages. Before you populate your site with a bunch of stuff you should go to your control panel and visit phpMyAdmin and download a copy of your WP database in .sql format. Save an original copy in case something goes wrong along the way, it's always good to keep a copy of stuff before editing. Open the file in a good text editor like Notepad++ (free download!) and do a find/replace on the prefix of your WP tables. You can edit it in the interface, but it is easier and faster to download it to fix it. Change everything from wp_ to qlu_ or mzo_ or anything you want. That makes it almost impossible to have your site hacked. After you do the find/replace go back to your CP and use phpMyAdmin to drop all the tables. DO NOT DROP THE DATABASE itself, only the tables. Now upload the .SQL file. Now you will be locked out of your site until you open up a copy of your wp-config file (you can get a copy via ftp if you didn't download a copy before you started) and change the wp_ prefixes in there to match your new prefixes. There are other things you can do to have a more secure WP site, but this is something basic, easy and better done before you have lots of stuff to backup and maybe replace. __________________ Whether you think you can or think you can't - You will be right.

#5 May 28th, 2011, 10:47 PM
Decorative Ceiling Tiles Affiliate Manager Join Date: May 7th, 2010 Location: Florida Posts: 1,298	This is one of the moments when I feel so dumb again... I will sleep on this one and will bug you tomorrow for a Dummy Version on this one..:-) __________________ Milan Jara ~ Merchant ~ Decorative Ceiling Tiles, Inc. Affiliate Program

#8 May 29th, 2011, 04:03 PM
2busy ABW Ambassador Join Date: January 17th, 2005 Location: Tropical Mountaintop Posts: 5,407	The first time I did it, it was scary, I had never even looked at phpMyAdmin before and knew nothing about mySQL either. I hand edited each table following instructions I found online at a place where I trusted the discussions. The instructions above are the short easy way to do it. In CP, click on phpMyAdmin.. This takes you to a page with a list of all the databases you have on the host and shows the number of tables each one holds. Click on the name of the database in the list on the left that you want to download. It will show you a page listing all the tables with checkboxes. At the bottom of the list there is a link to check them all or you can manually check them all. Now look at the top where there are tabs for Structure, Operations, Import and Export and other stuff and click Export. This opens a normal window for downloading a file, save it to a place you can find it easily, like your desktop. Now open the .sql file and do a find/replace, changing all the wp_ in the file to pq8tj_ or m39dg_ or eo_ or whatever you want to change it to. Tip: if you have already downloaded a copy of your wp-config file you can open it and do a find and replace at the same time. No other changes. Save the files for uploading. Use ftp to replace the wp-config file on your domain and then go back to phpMyAdmin. Get back to the same database you were in before if you logged out and check off all the boxes again. On the same line where the Check All link is look just to the right where you'll see a dropdown that says With Selected. Click that to see Drop as one of the choices and select Drop. This is where you drop all the tables but not the database. Then click the Import tab, browse to the .sql file on your computer and import it. If you did not drop the tables there will be errors, but if you have followed along, that's it. You're done. Unless you made some peculiar choices (like different charsets)during the creation of your WP database you don't need to make any choices from the boxes on the screen, just import. The one place where you might mess up is if you use some naughty text-handling app to do the find and replace. That's why I suggest Notepad++ if you are on Windows and TextWrangler (also free) if you're on a Mac. You can do it. __________________ Whether you think you can or think you can't - You will be right.

#10 May 31st, 2011, 12:00 PM
freddycnx Newbie Join Date: May 14th, 2011 Posts: 28	Gonna need some VampireSkunk help with this for sure!!!

#13 May 31st, 2011, 02:55 PM
2busy ABW Ambassador Join Date: January 17th, 2005 Location: Tropical Mountaintop Posts: 5,407	Don't use All in One SEO pack. Unless you are prepared to manually edit settings for all your posts and pages. Yoast SEO for WP runs circles around it . It even lets you import all your All-in-One settings so you can see how bad they are. It had my policy pages indexed - and does not give you a way to turn off comments RSS feed. I paid for All in One, but dropped it after I tried the Yoast SEO product. I had All in One on all my sites but it is obsolete IMHO. __________________ Whether you think you can or think you can't - You will be right.

#14 May 31st, 2011, 03:04 PM
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#16 May 31st, 2011, 03:12 PM
2busy ABW Ambassador Join Date: January 17th, 2005 Location: Tropical Mountaintop Posts: 5,407	To read more and get to know the author better ( Joost de Valk) http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/ and some simple do's and don'ts: http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme/ __________________ Whether you think you can or think you can't - You will be right.

#19 May 31st, 2011, 03:32 PM
Kevin Analytics Dude Join Date: January 18th, 2005 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,911	Only caution I have on the Yoast plugin is the XML sitemap generator. Our kayak fishing blog is over 12,000 posts now (which really isn't all that large if you think about it structurally) and I had to turn off the sitemapping. Publishing a post would absolutely seize our server up. And it's not cheap hosting either. Short of that, the mechanics of the true SEO portion of the Yoast plugin are wonderful. __________________ Kevin Webster twitter: levelanalytics Kayak Fishing Web Analytics and Affiliate Marketing

#20 May 31st, 2011, 06:29 PM
freddycnx Newbie Join Date: May 14th, 2011 Posts: 28	I spent a good few hours looking at Yoast but some of the negative reviews on bugs and glitches turned me off. I wonder how much of that was disinformation? 2busy is clearly well respected here so I am gonna give Yoast a try. Thanks for the info on 'All in one SEO pack' As a newbie I had no idea. I dont have a clue what an XML sitemap generator is? I will be using data feeds on all my sites in due course, and will also look at adsense in the round. Do I need to be concerned about Kevin's observation in respect of these? Thanks for all this rich info.

#21 May 31st, 2011, 07:28 PM
freddycnx Newbie Join Date: May 14th, 2011 Posts: 28	Additionally I need to backup my WP sites - can anyone recommend an automated simple backup plugin for a newbie? I see there are many to choose from?

#22 May 31st, 2011, 07:31 PM
2busy ABW Ambassador Join Date: January 17th, 2005 Location: Tropical Mountaintop Posts: 5,407	If you build a website, Googie wants you to create a sitemap. The format of the sitemap is to be in xml. The Yoast plugin generates that sitemap for you with your settings if you turn it on. There are settings to include or not include any types of posts or pages or categories from your sitemap. On a strictly WP site I have mine turned on, it will allow you to include images if you like - or not. Most of my WP sites are partially WP and partially html. For those sites I turn off the Yoast sitemap plug in and use a different one, Sitemap Generator. For the html part I use the Cusimano sitemap generator, that makes it simple to remove pages you don't want in the sitemap. __________________ Whether you think you can or think you can't - You will be right.

#23 June 1st, 2011, 03:29 PM
daiarian Full Member Join Date: April 4th, 2011 Location: Beautiful Wales Posts: 578	This is a useful youtube tutorial for Yoast youtube.com/watch?v=MLBpmeXjse4