The standard WordPress handling of title tags [what shows up in your browser's title bar and search engines] is not guite right.
Instead of BlogTitle >> PostTitle; you want PostTitle >> BlogTitle. This helps with SEO and looks better.
You could switch wp_title and bloginfo(name), but then you get this annoying >> before your title. So here is the easy solution without resorting to a plugin.
Add the PostTitle after the
tag with ” in the brackets to remove the arrows: </p>
<pre class="brush: php;"><title><?php wp_title(' '); ?></pre>
<p>Add the condition if we’ve removed that symbol, it should add another after it; in this case i’m choosing the | symbol because I don’t like the arrows:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;"><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' | '; } ?></pre>
<p>Now add your blog name and whatever else you want before closing the title tag:</p>
<pre class="brush: php;"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> | blog description? </title> </pre>
<p>Works like a charm. Thanks to <a href="http://www.zachgraeve.com/2006/09/01/optimizing-wordpress-title-tags/">Zach</a>.</p></div> </div> <!-- // postcontent -->
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<abbr title="2007-11-13T04:35:46Z">2:35 pm <em>on</em> November 13, 2007</abbr> <span class="actions">
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<div class='snap_preview'><p><img src='http://craigchilds.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/maxinquaye.jpg?w=200&h=200' alt='tricky maxinquaye' width="200" height="200" align="right" />Who else takes other people’s lyrics, gets Martina Topley-Bird to sing them, and calls it their own other than Tricky? On a debut no less!</p>
<p>No Tricky LP is outstanding, but they always have a few pearler tracks on them. Maxinquaye’s hits are the tracks that borrow:</p>
<p><em>Overcome </em>uses lyrics from Massive Attack’s <em>Karmacoma</em>.<br />
<em>Black Steel</em> uses the first verse from PE’s <em>Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos.</em><br />
<em>Hell Is Around The Corner </em>samples Hayes’<em>Ike’s Rap II</em> which you would have heard first on Portishead’s <em>Glory Days</em>.</p>
<p>Tricky later covered Siouxsie & the Banshees’ <em>Tattoo</em>, The Cure’s <em>Lovecats </em>and XTC’s <em>Dear God</em>.</p>
<p>Who else has done this? Someone else’s lyrics with new a style and music…</p></div> </div> <!-- // postcontent -->
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<abbr title="2007-11-13T03:36:42Z">1:36 pm <em>on</em> November 13, 2007</abbr> <span class="actions">
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<div class='snap_preview'><p>What a hassle! WordPress decided a while ago that you can have either summary or full content feeds, but if you used the <code></code> code the feed’s posts would get cut. </p>
<p>Editing the wp/includes feed files didn’t help and neither did the full-feed plugin. However, I’d suggest using <a href="http://www.scratch99.com/wordpress-plugin-dualfeeds/">Cronin’s Dual Feeds plugin</a>.</p>
<p>Not only does it fix this little issue across the board [category feeds etc] but it also allows you to make up a secondary feed for summaries and plug your feed into <a href="http://feedburner.com">Feedburner</a>. </p>
<p>Good look.</p></div> </div> <!-- // postcontent -->
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i once went to a hippy wedding at ceres, where they had other hippies singing their wedding song “like a tree standing next to another tree, interconnected but essentially free”. i think they’re divorced now.
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I am trying to do the same thing with Tumblr, Twitter and WordPress. What I am doing with Tumblr and WordPress is using custom domains with them, so that at some point, if I plan to move away, I can control things much better and retain the url forever. Makes sense ?