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My Link Order Plugin: Validation Error Solution

As you might remember, a while ago I’ve recommended you the plugins developed by GeekyWeekly: My Link Order, My Page Order and My Category Order.

I’d still recommend them to everyone how wants to organize his blog easier and better, even if recently I’ve found out that the My Link Order plugin generates an XHTML validation error, specifically: it creates an ID duplicate for each blog roll category that you add.

The validation error could look like:

ID "mylinkorder" already defined

or

anchor "mylinkorder" already defined

My Link Order Fix

So, how to fix this? Actually it’s pretty simple.

1. Navigate to your plugins folder and open for editing the mylinkorder.php file;

2. Find this line of code:

'category_before' => $before_widget, 'category_after' => $after_widget,

Depending on the plugin version, it should be between lines 180 and 200.

3. Comment the like by adding 2 slashes at the beginning, so the end result would look like:

//'category_before' => $before_widget, 'category_after' => $after_widget,

4. That’s it! Upload the file and enjoy your valid ordered blog.

Is ShoeMoney Right? “SEO Has No Future”?

I was reading ShoeMoney’s post - SEO Has No Future - the other day and I really felt the need to express my views on the matter, and since I have enough to say, I’ll do it in a post, rather than a comment.

ShoeMoney stated clearly that he’s not a professional SEO, and neither am I, but I am certainly a SEO enthusiast. In short, my answer to his statement would be: You’re wrong, and let me tell you why I think so!

I believe in SEO

I really do! Search Engine Optimization has been a very effective way to make our websites and blogs stand out of the crown. Do you know how old is this blog? I’ll tell you. The domain name was registered on March 3rd, this year, and the blog was added about one week later.

For almost a month I did not find enough time to take proper care of its design and SEO elements. I only had some time for writing, which I did. For almost a month, Google kept me on page 32(!) for my targeted keyword, which happens to be a relevant keyword for many of my articles: Blogging Tips. Click here to read the full blog post!

How to Make Your Blog Posts More Readable

Have you ever come across a post title that startled your interest, but as soon as you got to the content you couldn’t read it? I did! And why didn’t I read the post if the title was so interesting? Because the content was too cluttered. Because no matter how valuable was the information, I simple could not pull my self to go through a labyrinth of words to find the good ideas.

Domain Names for Bloggers (5)

Today’s edition of Domain Names for Bloggers is a bit special. This time I’m not going to share available domain names with you, but blog domain names with HUGE potential that have recently expired and are new in the pending delete status or in redemption period.

Tell me more about you!

I would really love to know more about you, my readers.
As you have probably seen by now, I consider that there’s nothing more valuable than having a nice, communicative community.

BloggingMix.com Sold! New owner’s strategy?

As some of you probably know by one, BloggingMix.com has been around the last year, offering quality content to the blogosphere. 3 days ago, the owner (ex-owner by now), Rocky, announced that the site has been sold to Matt of WhyDoWork.com.

Win 2 .com domain names registered for 3 years

On May’s contest I’m going to offer 2 .com domain names registered for 3 years to 2 bloggers.
It doesn’t matter if you already have your own domain or want to launch a new blog, either way you are eligible for the prize.

Content Theft Situation Resolved

Thanks for all of you that showed your support towards the situation I have posted about a few hours ago. At this moment, the website involved has been taken down, and so the problem was resolved.
Right now, I’m not looking to go any further with this since the response was quick, but IT STILL is […]

Free WordPress Themes Watch: Unstandard

Good, professional, free WordPress themes are hard to find, and when a high-quality theme that could easily pass as premium is released, it should receive all our attention. This is the case with Derek Punsalan’s theme: Unstandard.

Best Blogging Tips From the World’s Top Bloggers (2)

They say that experience is the best teacher. And it is. The only problem is that experience can be both good and bad. Some things we have to experiment for ourselves to see the results, but for the others we have so many experienced bloggers sharing so much valuable knowledge that it would be a shame not to take advantage of it. Here are some of my favorite tips for this second part of the series.