Comments on: Metadata in Your WordPress Thesis Blog

By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:34:38 +0000

Sumer, there isn’t a “fix” because Thesis was designed to work this way.

Your home page h2 tag is styled like the h1 on other pages — as it’s supposed to. The home page will have your tagline as the h1 priority tag.

By: sumer cpa marketer

sumer cpa marketer — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:50:47 +0000

Hi Alison,

Great post. I want to ask is there any fix for h2 tags in static homepage. I want to use h1 tag in my static pages because I want to style it along with SEO.

You can see my other pages and the main page to find out what I am trying to say>

Regards,

By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:48:10 +0000

Stick Bills, when you say “meta description for categories” do you mean adding a description on the Edit Category page? Tell me where you are entering this overriding information and I’ll try to find a solution. Also, are you using Thesis or another theme?

By: Stick Bills

Stick Bills — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:56:32 +0000

I have problem with category page and tags page meta description. If i add meta description for categories under wordpress admin, Description overides the category name, and meta description shows as Meta title in my thesis theme.

How can i add meta description for category and tags archive pages?
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By: KentG

KentG — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:49:48 +0000

This stuff is so confusing. Really I just want to write and not mess with all this. But at least there is a concise and easy to understand tutorial. I had no idea what people were talking about. Now it makes sense.

Make some more of these and maybe someday I’ll really be up to speed with wordpress.

By: Bornmaple

Bornmaple — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:31:22 +0000

Great article! Well stated!!

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By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:04:20 +0000

Thanks, Nicolas.

vbcruiser, I have an answer to your question.

Thesis uses the tagline as the h1 tag on the front page. The tagline on Win with 1, for example, is “Start Blogging in 1 Week for 1 Amazing Low Price with 1 Sweet Setup.” This is true whether your front page is the default home page with most recent post titles or a static page you set up (as with this site).

When you use a static page for the front page, it’s no longer like all other static pages because it’s been “elevated” to its position as the front page of the site. This “elevated” page now represents the entire site and so the more descriptive tagline data is used for the h1 tag.

While this logic is used to better represent your page to search engines, you’ll note that the styling remains consistent on all pages. So that home page title tag that is LABELED as h2, is still styled like the h1 title tags on all the other pages. Subsequent h2 tags on the home page look like h2 tags on all other pages, and so on.

Please let me know if you have anymore questions. I appreciate the chance to clarify anything about your site.