Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Friends, I need help in finding a way to split the header of my blog (Wordpress) in two parts (ratio 5:2).
I want to add some buttons to the right part of the header.
I'd appreciate your help, thank you!
Split Blog header in two parts
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Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Ritu, design it in FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Copy the code and put it in your header.php file! 
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Knock.. knock.. Ritu, are you lost in the smileys thread? 
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
She is a noctournal female Ranjith
comes to indi only late night
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Forgot that Ritu lives outside India. 
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Vijay - Yes, I don't know when it started but I'm an owl now :( usually awake till 2
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Ranjith - The DDLJ thread has takena life of its own. Loving the fun. I was out during the day with a friend so missed some of the smiley fun! I live in Seoul which 3 1/2 hours ahead of India
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Awake till 2! 
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Why do you always act surprised when people tell you their sleep time
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Don't you think that everyone is supposed to sleep by 10 or 11? 
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Believe me once you leave college you will sleep at 3 or 4 in the morning
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
I know neither FrontPage nor Dreamweaver :(
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Cant help you there Ritu, Ranjith seems to have gone hiding for a few minutes
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
@ Vijay 
@ Ritu If you want, I can do it for you. It doesn't take much time. On a paper, draw a rough sketch of how you want the header to be, text, links etc and IndiMail it to me.
And start playing with FrontPage. It is a good way to design even with no knowledge of HTML. 
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
I was not hiding. 
I was seeing if there exists a free service which can be used to take screenshots of webpages to determine colourfulness for Lex Rank.
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Ranjith - You would do that for me? Thanks forum king 
I need a basic split - the width of part 1 should match the post width of the left, the second part should be same width as the widget area
I want to add buttons to it later. Is this info sufficient? If not, I will create a page and send you Indimail. I know html a bit but I can't seem to locate the code to modify in my new theme 
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
I know that Ranjith neven doubted you for a sec, but Ritu and you seem to be playing hide and seek.
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
@Ranjith check this out > http://www.flickr.com/photos/96366081@N04/9246447633/ The third line, do you understand wht it is?
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
@ Vijay Are you asking about h1 tags or page rank flow?
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ranjith page rank flow.
Akash KB
from Mumbai |
@Vijay, @Ranjith: Page Rank Flow means - how much %age of PR you are keeping on your site.
In simple words - the number of outgoing links (dofollow) on your site or page shouldn't be more that the number of internal links (ofcourse dofollow) to your domain.
In this way your PR Flow will be more than 50%. If you keep max Link-juice on your page or site, it will rank higher in SERPs.
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ok Akash can you tell me what is the optimum page rank flow for a blog?
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
How did you find your pagerank flow? I want to find mine too
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
for which site Ritu? I will send you the snap
Vishal Verma
from Bangalore |
my suggestion-> Change theme which supports header widgets..
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
I worked a little bit to modify the theme I'm using right now (It's a wordpress child theme) so I do not want to change again :(
Akash KB
from Mumbai |
The final aim of PR Flow etc. are meant for ranking higher in search results. You can't rank a page/site higher in an efforts to keep max PR by making all the outgoing links nofollow or not linking out to external websites.
Google looks for >200 signals while ranking content. And there are more important signals out there than Page Rank.
So, don't nofollow all the outgoing links. And keep your PR Flow @ 55 to 75%.
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Thanks Akash I have 73% Page Rank flow
Akash KB
from Mumbai |
Thats G8 Vijay
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Mine is 68%. Yay! Thanks to vijay for finding it out for me :)
Akash KB
from Mumbai |
@Ritu KT - You are using the default WP theme "Twenty Twelve" on your blog "Things to Rave About."
And your main aim is to - Put some buttons (socials) on the right side of the header; not, splitting the header in to 2 parts, right? For this you have to add a Widget on the header.
Caution: 1. You should be able to access your site via FTP. Use FileZilla for convinience (I love it). It will save you incase of any accident.
2. Copy the existing codes from the dashboard files and save it for future reference.
Let's start...
Log In to your dashboard --> Open the functions.php file
Then, find the below codes -
register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Second Front Page Widget Area’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘id’ => ‘sidebar-3′, ‘description’ => __( ‘Appears when using the optional Front Page template with a page set as Static Front Page’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘before_widget’ => ‘
’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘’, ‘before_title’ => ‘
’, ‘after_title’ => ‘
’, ) );
Keep a space of one line at the bottom and add the below codes -
register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Banner Area’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘id’ => ‘sidebar-4′, ‘description’ => __( ‘Space for ads’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘before_widget’ => ‘
’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘’, ‘before_title’ => ‘
’, ‘after_title’ => ‘
’, ) );
Now, save the changes.
Then open the header.php file.
Find the below code -
Now, add the below code, directly above the 'above mentioned' code -
SAVE the changes. Voila ! You are done !!
Now visit your widget section, and there you will find a new Widget area on the header section (Rt Justified). If you add the social buttons, then it will show on the Rt side of your header. You can change the position of the buttons by adding some CSS property.
In case of any problem drop your doubts here.
Akash KB
from Mumbai |
In the header.php file find the below code -
<nav id=”site-navigation” role=”navigation”>
Now, add the below code, directly above the 'above mentioned' code -
<?php if ( dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar-4′) ) : else : ?> <?php endif; ?>
Save the changes. Now you are done
Few codes are omitted in my previous reply. I don't know how.
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Thanks Akash :) I am in the middle of my Photo A Day Experiment(PADE) now so I will implement the changes on my testing site and then make them to my website at the end of July. I will bug if I get any more doubts.
Thanks again
Vishal Verma
from Bangalore |
Its better not to mess with core files (newbies), just change theme, otherwise result = corrupt theme.
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Thanks for the warning Vishal, I'm using a child theme
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ritu what is a child theme
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Vijay - It's a theme that inherits the properties of the parent theme. So if I want to modify a Wordpress theme let's call it PADE () then I will create a directory called PADE-child and add the files I change from the parent theme (only CSS file is a must). This way I don't mess up the theme files :)
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Oh and i forgot to add - With a child theme, I will not lose my customisation in case the theme is updated by the creaters!
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
wow so much to learn; is there a grand child theme too
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Vijay - I am yet to reach that level ;)
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Vijay - my "things to rave about" blog
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
ok will post the link here
Vishal Verma
from Bangalore |
To enable or add widget in the header, you need to modify your theme's core files.. ie header.php and functions.php .. thats why I said Its better not to mess with core files
Akash KB
from Mumbai |
@Vishal - I'm also using a free theme on my blog SEOHour.com and never faced any problem anytime. You've to do experiments, either 2day or 2morrow to comeout of the newbie tag
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ritu here is your link http://www.flickr.com/photos/96366081@N04/9253854317/
@Akash in the snap the page is shown as not indexable why is that?
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Thank you Vijay. It says 68%, is it good?
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Yep more than 50% is goooood
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
@ Vijay I think it is because in her robots.txt, she blocked /wp-admin/ and /wp-includes/ ( which can be blocked as there is no content in it which can be used by others )
Which plugin is that?
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Ranjith - What are you topic about? I couln't understand
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ritu your own website, check the snap, there is a red button which says site is not indexable
@Ranjith, how come in your and my site if we click on articles, same says non indexable but homepage is given as fully indexable???
Ritu KT
from New Delhi |
Should it be indexable? Actually I did not change anything in robots.txt file. These were default settings.
I'm sorry if I sound dumb but I have limited knowledge of these things as of now
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
@ Ritu Everything is fine Ritu. Stay with the default settings.
@ Vijay Can you tell me which plugin is that so that I can check.
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ranjith I dont use wordpress so no plugins!!!
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Vijay, I was asking about the Firefox ( ? ) seo plugin ( or whatever you call them ) .
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ranjith > home page of combo http://www.flickr.com/photos/96366081@N04/9260960600/
and individual posts page > http://www.flickr.com/photos/96366081@N04/9260959818/
Please help me with this
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
SEO Doctor 1.6.2 http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/browser-addons/seo-doctor
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Canonical URL : If you have different URL's all pointing to the same page ( for example, www.example.com/toys, www.example.com/?category=toys ) then you can use a canonical tag to state which of the URL's you want search engines to use.
In your case, see the URL in the 2nd screenshot. It is comboupdates.com/postname/.#abcd
The abcd at the end is being set by some script on your page. Since the canonical url specified on the page does not contain the .#abcd, the plugin is saying that comboupdates.com/postname/.#abcd is not indexable but still comboupdates.com/postname is indexable. So, no need to worry but still check which script is causing the .#abcd part to be added at the end of the url.
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
@Vijay I'll check with the plugin...
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
OK Ranjith thanks, I know the page is being indexed because it appears in GA search index but still was worried about it a bit
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
It took me almost 10 minutes to realize that clicking on the bar of that stats shows the deatiled results!
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
aha the beauty of firefox It took me 15 minutes to find out the name of the plugin
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
Disable JavaScript in your FireFox browser and you will see that SEO Doctor shows that the page is indexable. So, the URL change ( adding the .#abcd ) part at the end is the cause.
But I wonder which plugin / gadget does such URL manipulation!
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Ranjith how to disable JS in Firefox
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
- Click Firefox on top left corner -> Click Options.
- A dialog box opens. Click 'Content' on the top bar of that dialog box.
- Uncheck 'Enable JavaScript' and click 'OK'.
Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |
Done Ranjith you were right thanks 
Ranjith
from hyderabad |
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