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How to exclude pages from wordpress menu

So it happens – how to exclude pages from the wordpress menu. It happened to me because I wanted a page rather than a post – I can’t remember why now – but when I added it – the menu navigation got all messed up because I had so many words in the title of the page.

But how to keep the page and just not have it show up in the menu?

There’s a great little plug in I found that worked the trick. Its called – Exclude Pages – you can find it by going to the wordpress.org list of plugins – Exclude Pages plug in.

Its simple to use – just install – then while you’re still in the Admin Area – got to PAGES – click on the EDIT if your page already exists, if not make a page. Then scroll down on that ADD NEW PAGE screen and on the lower righthand side you will see a box to check or uncheck depending on if you want or don’t want the page added to the navigational bar in your wordpress theme.

Let me know how this works for you. Happy WordPressing!

All in One SEO

All in One SEO is a great initial step in optimizing your site or blog -

Its easy to use and you can get it directly from WordPress by downloading it from here.

ALL In ONE SEO

Its free and it will make a huge different in your control over the SEO of your site. It puts the power into your hands.

Best WordPress Statistics Plugin

Looking for the best wordpress statistics plugin?

Well, I found one that I like. I have used Google’s Analytics but with so many sites under my belt, I would like to go to my admin area and get everything there – comments, postings, stats etc. OK so I am feeling a little lazy about not wanting to go over log into Google and tell Google about all my sites in one place. I also like a little privacy – not a lot, just a little.

So what I found was a plugin on wordpress which is easy to install. This plugin is a highly improved variation of StatPress and it shows you real time statistics about your blog or website. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

Click here to go to WordPress to download it StatPress Reloaded.

Once the plugin StatPress has been activated it immediately starts to collect information. I just started using it and by the time I installed it and took a phone call, I say that a spider had already “crawled” by. By using StatPress Reloaded you can see your visitors actions while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories.

In the Dashboard menu you will find the StatPress Reloaded page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed). StatPress Reloaded also includes a widget you can add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can’t use widgets!).

Its been a while since this plug was updated but so far it works with the latest WordPress update January 2010.

And in addition to viewing your stats from within your admin area – you also have a little more privacy in case you have a need for it.

Blog and Ping the right way

Blog and Ping explained by going to the movies.

Remember the 1990 movie Hunt for Red October starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin?

Just one ping

Just one ping

Captain Ramius: Re-verify our range to target… one ping only.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Captain, I – I – I just…
Captain Ramius: Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Aye, Captain.

So if you’ve been blogging for a while you may have heard the term “ping”. But for newbies, hard to know what this really is and what it does and why too much in a short time isn’t good for your blog.

Pinging is what  your blog does behind the scenes goes to notify search engines that something has been updated or added to your blog posts. Its is a very powerful part of blogging and should be used to maximize your blog’s exposure. Read the rest of this entry

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