Friday, July 10. 2009

Custom meta details for Serendipity static pages

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in Serendipity - Themes, Serendipity - Tutorials at 13:35

Your site's content can rank higher in search engine results through the use of page-specific title element, meta descriptions and meta keywords. The Serendipity HTML META-tags plugin simplifies this task for entries, as I discussed in Better search results with meta details.

Unfortunately, the current version of the HTML META-tag plugin cannot emit meta details for static pages, but static pages can have custom properties. We can use these custom static page properties to emit unique meta details for each static page, just like the HTML META-tag plugin does for entries.

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Wednesday, September 24. 2008

Additional sidebars for Serendipity templates

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Don Chambers

in Serendipity - Themes, Serendipity - Tutorials at 16:15

Serendipity templates utilize a page structure that includes a main content pane and sidebar containers, often positioned left and/or right of the main content. But what if you want a top or bottom "sidebar"? How about more than two?

How do you code that information into your template, and present - and secure - it to other users of your custom serendipity templates if they are publically distributed? Template configuration and Smarty code can easily provide the solution for any of your custom serendipity templates. [ Continue reading "Additional sidebars for ... » ]

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