Friday, October 10, 2008
Google Webmaster Site Verification
Google Webmaster Tools has a feature that allows you to add a “sitemaps.xml” file for each of your websites. To take advantage of all its features, Google requires you to verify the site is yours by either adding a specific file to your site or adding a Meta tag to your index.html.
The file verification option does not work for 110MB websites and I do not have an index.html on my FlatPress blog. I could create an index.html that contains the Meta tag and automatically forward visitors to “index.php”. However, this second option is not something I want my website visitors to endure.
After searching the FlatPress forum, I found the solution I needed. FlatPress has an easy to use user plugin named HeadStuff, which allows Meta tags to be defined. It is simple to setup and use.
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Monday, September 8, 2008
How to: Enabling PrettyURLs
FlatPress Blogs posts (entries) are assigned a unique web address of numbers. These addresses are not too user friendly. To rectify this, FlatPress included the plugin PrettyURLs, which takes these web addresses and creates alternate addresses based on the entries subject.
PrettyURLs web address format:
http://yourwebsite/index.php/year/month/day/the-name-of-the-entry/
The plugin PrettyURL, while included in FlatPress is not enabled by default. To enable it only takes three steps.
