HTML Headings in WordPress – Part 3

Remember, last time I said there were two “evil” factors that intervened and didn’t let WordPress’ TwentyTen theme to be the solution for ever. Actually, only one factor was evil – namely the Internet Marketers’ willingness to cheat any system for short-term gains.

I know, I know: I shouldn’t call them internet marketers, since I know quite a number of very honest business people who do business on the internet and they do NOT use cheesy tactics. It’s a shame they are called the same name as those crooks that give the bad name to a whole industry.

Internet Marketers(?) messing with the
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HTML Headings in WordPress – Part 2

Heading tags in WordPress

Even before the new WordPress version and the new default theme — TwentyTen — has been introduced, there were theme developers and bright coders suggesting to break the pattern used in the default WordPress theme when it comes to the usage of H tags.

For the main index or other multipost views (archives, search result etc.) the placement of the H tags was excellent: on the top the site/blog title in between h1 tags… below the list of posts with their own titles, all in between h2 tags – this gives a very logical structure for those pages. See the
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HTML Headings in WordPress – Part 1

About headings

Most people don’t understand the significance of the heading tags in HTML, so no wonder, historically, the WordPress developers performance in that regard was also less than stellar. So, what are the HTML heading tags, anyway?

For a quick explanation we may need to go back in time to the pre-web era and take a look at the printing traditions: even if many are not aware of it, during the development of the web page technologies we “borrowed” a lot from the traditional print media (books, newspapers, scientific papers etc.)

All of the above examples, but especially the most organized type of them, namely the
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The irony of the SEO spam

There are many self-appointed WP “gurus” out there… and, usually, I don’t even bother noticing them and even less arguing with their nonsense teachings. It’s unfair to argue with somebody whose knowledge is so minimal that is laughable.

Next, as my earlier posts can prove it, I don’t engage in personal attacks. This post will be no exception, either: I don’t have anything with the people, only with the methods and publicly available statements.

One more thing, before we discuss the comments from my Spam folder. I consider all the hype around SEO (search engine optimization) to be voodoo science, to say the least. Make no mistake, I
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Would you die with your product?

OK, I admit it: the title is a bit dramatic, so let me re-phrase it – how much are you able to stand behind your product… even when it comes down to the basic dilemma of Life and/or Death. Can you say “I am behind my product and I adhere to everything I wrote”? Before you answer it, read this short post about my friend.

A while ago (last year?) my good friend and colleague released a fascinating ebook: From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness. It is meant to plan your individual pathway from pain to stress-FREEDOM – based on simple happiness practices of the
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