Mark Kirby – Mobile Developer

SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings – a WordPress plugin

I recently created an SEO friendly WordPress theme for Ribot which meets the following 2 key SEO requirements:

  • have the H1 on archive pages and the homepage set to the title of those pages, or the name of your blog
  • set the H1 on single posts or pages to be the title of the post/page

This causes an issue with subheadings when composing your posts. In the category pages the articles titles will be the H2, but in the individual posts the articles titles will be the H1. Do you set your subheadings to start at H2 and please the single pages, or H3 and please the category pages?

I created the SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings plugin to resolve the issue by replacing subheading tags with the following on pages where the plugin tag is added:

- H2 into H3
- H3 into H4
- H4 into H5
- H5 into H6
- H6 into P.headingSix

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6 Responses to “SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings – a WordPress plugin”

  1. On January 5th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, Posts about WordPress Plugins as of January 5, 2009 | The Lessnau Lounge said

    [...] it out of the way. First of all I don’t think there is a minimal set of WordPress plugins SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings – a WordPress plugin – mark-kirby.co.uk 01/05/2009 I recently created an SEO friendly WordPress theme for Ribot which [...]

  2. On March 25th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, 20 of the Best SEO Plugins for WordPress | DawidRyba Blog said

    [...] SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings – Some themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree.  In other words, h2 becomes h3, h3 becomes h4 and so on. [...]

  3. On April 11th, 2009 at 11:42 pm, BloggingTips said

    I had never heard about this plugin. This is really very useful for the SEO purpose.

  4. On May 10th, 2009 at 2:45 pm, 20 of the Best SEO Plugins for WordPress | Blogging Planet said

    [...] SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings – Some themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree.  In other words, h2 becomes h3, h3 becomes h4 and so on. [...]

  5. On June 14th, 2009 at 8:42 pm, Best Wordpress Themes for SEO | Instant Blog Solutions said

    [...] SEO Friendly and HTML valid Subheadings – Some themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree.  In other words, h2 becomes h3, h3 becomes h4 and so on. [...]

  6. On October 7th, 2009 at 2:39 am, pandu said

    Nice widget,i will try to install it on my blog.Thanks for your advice.

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