I’ve been working with Wordpress a lot lately. There are thousands of plug-ins and themes available, but if your goal is SEO listen up. Below is a zipped up copy of my Ultimate Wordpress SEO Theme and Plugin Pack.

For people who manage many blogs it can be a pain to find all the right SEO tools for Wordpress. This ZIP file includes the latest version of Wordpress (2.6.1) ready to go with best Theme for SEO purposes (Elements-of-SEO). It also includes my favorite SEO plugins:

• Feedlist – for creating text based social bookmarking links
• Google-Sitemap-Generator – for creating an XML sitemap optimized for search engines
• SEO-Title-Tag – for allowing independent setup of page title elements
• Sociable – for creating chicklets and bookmarking icons

There are a couple more plugins that may be useful to some – allowing stat tracking and pingback management, but those should really be used on a case by case basis.

Download my Ultimate Wordpress SEO Theme and Plugin Pack, upload it and install as normal. Activate the plugins and you’re good to go. . . . . . . tossing Google Analytics into the footer script never hurts either .

So here it is. Download the Ultimate Wordpress SEO Theme and Plugin Pack.

Six months ago I made a brief mention of Yahoo Pipes in my blog. Well I have now actually used it. It’s a great little tool and does a lot more than FeedBurner was originally capable of. I have a feeling now that FeedBurner has been aquired by Google it will be rolling out some new functionality very quickly. But anyway. . . .

Yahoo Pipes can be used to mash up RSS feeds from all different sources. I just used it today to create a multifeed of my three blogs; this blog, my motorcycle blog, and my travel blog. The feed can be found on my hompage. Yahoo Pipes can ‘pipe’ in content from just about any source, and it can then be filtered by different criteria and pushed out into a single feed. I’m glad I’m finally using it!

DSC03992, originally uploaded by evanfell.

I haven’t shaved since NH, so it’s been a while.

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

Geocaching is one of the coolest things modern technology has given us. A global scale all out treasure hunt adventure. Just one more reason I’m lusting after a nice GPS receiver.

I’d love to go to the Future of Web Design conference this November in NYC. Tickets are a bit on the high-end though.

I really loved my tumblr blog, but it just wasn’t as flexible as I would have liked. Tumblr is by far the easiest and most convenient blogging platform to use. Tracking other bloggers through the dashboard is also an excellent feature. In the end though (after 1 year of using tumblr) I had to revert to Wordpress. I was able to port all my Tumblr posts into this blog, some of them may be a little goofed up, but for the most part they’re all good.