Optimal Title Plugin
This plugin does a very nice thing that the deafult wordpress function does not. For the purposes of your titles in search engines, as well as at the top it allows you to create titles that actually show the post title before the blog title in single page view. On the home page it shows the blog title and then it shows the blog description afterwards. All seaparated with a nice little divider.
Download that Optimal Title Plugin and upload it to your plugins directory. After you activate it I found the best code to use is the one below. Replace everything between the <title></title> tags in your header.php file so it looks like this:
<title><?php if ( function_exists('optimal_title') ) { optimal_title('|'); bloginfo('name'); } else { bloginfo('name'); wp_title('|'); } ?><?php if ( is_home() ) { ?> | <?php bloginfo('description'); } ?></title>
Then go to your home page and look at the top of your broswser. Check a single post too and see the effects. Awesome, eh? Check out more WP Plugins I use.
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Nice!
I think so too. Just looks so much better in the search engines. I should actually do a write up on the Another WordPress Meta Plugin I think too. Makes it pretty easy to show what you want it to on Google.
Thanks for the entry on Optimal Title! FYI, I just released a new version of the plugin that fixes the XSS security issues it shared with WordPress version 2.1.2 and earlier. It is recommended that all users of the plugin upgrade to version 3.0.
The way in which the plugin works has also been changed in order to make it both backward and forward compatible with all versions of WordPress. As long as your WordPress installation is up to date, you won’t ever have to upgrade the plugin again. Let me know if you have any issues…
Thanks for the update, Aaron.