Following on from my first post about optimising the Revolution theme, here’s how to remove the default Revolution logo from the top of each page and replace it with text instead. I can never remember how to do this, so this is as much for my own benefit as anyone elses!

1. Within your wordpress dashboard edit the theme
2. Edit style.css and look for #headerleft
3. Change the padding to 30px 0px 0px 0px;
4. Save
5. Edit header.php and find the div id=”headerleft”
6. Replace the existing code in that div with this (copy and paste might cause a problem for some reason I haven’t yet worked out, so test that the link works on your text after saving the change):
   <a href=”<?php echo get_settings(‘home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a><br />
   <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>
7. Save and test.

If like me you’ve migrated from blogger to wordpress and you comment upon posts on other peoples blogger blogs, you’ll have seen the new openid authentication that blogger now supports.

Now it all seemed a little obscure to me but this very useful post manages to keep it all simple. It works too.

I’ve just been managing my feeds in feedburner and noticed that in the publicize / pingshot bit there’s an option to ping google blog search. Now that seems like an okay kind of thing to do to me. If the default is to ping technorati, bloglines, yahoo and newsgator why isn’t google a default? Seems strange given that google now own feedburner.

Anyone know why this is or why it might not be a good idea to ping google blog search?

I’m a big fan of Brian Gardner’s Revolution theme for wordpress – we use it here of course. Since purchasing the original theme, Brian has added a few variants to the Revolution portfolio, so do take a look at them all. I love these premium, magazine style wordpress themes – South Africa based Adii Pienaar offers his premium news theme which looks rather smart too.

I thought I’d post about any little tweaks that I make to my installed Revolution theme and hopefully others can add theirs in my comments or via email. I’m no wordpress expert though (unfortunately) so I’m not offering my services as a wordpress support line!

Today I’d like to mention the image alt descriptions. By default the Revolution theme seems to use your blog title for the image alts for the home page images hp-main, hp-1, hp-2 and hp-3 and could therefore do with a little optimisation. Within the file home.php search for the references to those images and edit the alt=”<your image text here>” and then test.

I’m currently using the firefox toolbar plugin webdeveloper and it was that that highlighted the image alts.

I’ve finally got around to installing the subscribe to comments wordpress plug-in so I’m now able to let readers receive an email notification for additional comments on a post. I’m assuming the etiquette is to have the option off by default?

I’ve been meaning to install the plug-in for ages but just never got round to it, but having watched blogger now offer the same facility (but only for other google account users I might add) I decided to act.

I’m also currently playing with the all-in-one seo plug-in too on my running blog with the intention of using it here (and elsewhere) too. Need to upgrade to the latest wordpress first on this blog.

The more I use wordpress the more I like it!

What can you do when you’re not able to comment upon a blog post?

For instance, I’ve stumbled upon a new blog entitled The Travel Affiliate, a new blog by a fellow affiliate marketer covering the travel industry. It looks like it could be worth following so I’ve subscribed to the feed. Although we’re not currently that active within the travel and holiday industry we do have our online travel tickets site that we could (and should) do more with.

But as the Travel Affiliate blog requires you to login to comment and I don’t have a login ID I’m unable to post a comment to say hello or whatever. Now this may be entirely intentional by the blog author as some writers simply don’t want all and sundry commenting upon what’s been said. I suspect though that’s not the case in this instance – search marketers who blog tend to enjoy the benefits of online networking that blogging offers.

Now, as The Travel Affiliate uses wordpress as his blogging platform he may notice this post of mine in his reported incoming links and get in touch. Let’s see what happens.