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Further thoughts on WordPress, and blogging

September 18th, 2007 Jason Posted in geek, theatre, wordpress |

One of these days I’ll settle back into some sort of “theme” for why I’ve even kept up this aspect of the site. As I’m not doing a bunch of theater myself at the moment, it would make sense to at least be writing up the shows I’m seeing on a regular basis…there are rather a lot of them.

But, of course what has prompted the switch to WordPress and the idea of doing a regular blog again at all is all the search engine research and work I’m doing online these days, so it would make sense to yammer on about that now and then as well.

My next bit of wordpress fun - and work research - may be to write my own plugin. One of the online properties at work is now running their own blog, also on wordpress. They are also taking a n RSS feed of info from their ‘parent’ site, thereby promoting one through the other. Works great. Except that we’ve done a lot of work to give the search engines a clear path into SEO-friendly pages, and the RSS feeds are not actually delivering the right URLs…so they’re pimping out the wrong pages. And it will probably be easier for me to whip out a bit of code that will do a custom rewrite of the RSS output on the wordpress side than it will be to get the parent site to change the outbound RSS feed.

Maybe.