In your category.php page you’ll want to paste this code snippet:

Here’s a quick snippet of code that allows you to include any number of different headings using one category page. Of course, adjust the category id to your own.

Classifieds


Environment & Real Estate


Hot Buzz


Product Plaza


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This is a basic, but powerful idea. You can use “elseif has_tag(‘tagname here’))” to do the same thing with tags instead of categories for instance.

Platinum SEO Pack – What more can I say about this, other than it should be required and used by anyone who’s faintly interested in optimizing their site. It lets you optimize every page AND post’s title, description, and keywords.

Google XML Sitemap generator – Does what it says. Generates a site map on the fly and submits it to the major search engines, including Google. Helps attract those search engine spiders.

SEO Smartlinks – Internal link juice is great, and this plugin finds related keywords and phrases from other stories or posts on your site, and automatically links to them.

A good ping list – Go to “Settings – Writing” and check what services are notified when you update your blog. If you’ve never been there before, chances are there’s only one. I’ve compiled a list of well over a hundred sites to notify when you update your site. Download it here!

Auto Social Poster or Wicked WP Poster – Don’t you have having to go to Twitter and announce your last blog post, or trying to bookmark your site in delicious to bump some traffic? These do all that and more for you; automated social bookmarking made easy.

SEO Super Comments – Now you can have each comment become an individual indexed page on your site. Brilliant!

Some other essential plugins:
Maxblogpress ping optimizer – Save your site from becoming a ping spammer with this plugin.
YARRP – Yet another related posts plugin. Helps boost internal page links by pointing users to related articles and posts.

A better “Read more” link – You can see my previous post for more on this, but the point is to generate a keyword-rich internal link by using the post title as the “Read more” link.

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I’ve enounterd the need for this on several projects and thought it might help. In this case, I didn’t want the featured slider to appear on every page, as it was located in the header. You too, may want to display page-specific headers based on certain conditions. Well, it’s not that hard with the “if” and “else” statements. Get ready to learn some very basic PHP!

The Fix

First, open your header.php file and copy and paste its contents into a new file. Name this new file “headerwithnofeaturedslider.php” or whatever is more semantic to you. Make sure you remove the offending featured slider portion (or include/remove what you want from this version of the header). Save and upload this new header file to your site.

Now you have two headers; you could easily make another, and another, and so on. Next we need to call them to appear on the pages in WordPress. In my case, I wanted to include the “headerslider.php” only on my home page and a unique header on my blog Every other page would load the normal header. So in my index.php file I replace the normal header tag with to include the new header file we created, like so:

}
elseif (is_page('blog')){
	
}
else {
	
}
?>

What we have here is a code snippet that will load any of three headers depending on the page template used.

Let’s say that you wanted to load a certain header based on categories or tags even. You could do something like this:

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All other pages will load the regular header. As you can see, it’s very simple. The most involving part would be changing your headers.

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I figured I’d post up the best speed improvement hacks for Firefox right here, since that’s what you want, right?

To switch Firefox from a six banger to a v8, type “about:config” in your address bar and hit return. Then modify these lines as shown:

network.http.max-connections 30 to 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server 15 to 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 6 to 8
network.http.pipelining false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30 to 8
network.http.pipelining.ssl false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true