SEO-friendly titles in Wordpress with Atahualpa theme and Headspace plugin

The Atahualpa theme for Wordpress is a really powerful theme with lots of settings. But it doesn’t give you full control over the titles of posts and pages the way the Headspace plugin does.
How the titles of your blog posts look like is important for search engine optimization. If you want your post to be higher ranked in the search result (and who doesn’t?) the title is one of the most important factors to consider.
The Atahualpa theme and the Headspace plugin doesn’t work together without a minor modification to one of the helper php-files in Atahualpa. Look in the functions directory of the theme for the file called bfa_meta_tags.php. Open it in an editor and look for the line that says:

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

Change it to:

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

Now you can enable the Headspace plugin and go to Settings -> Headspace and define exactly how your titles should be generated.

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4 Comments

  1. Posted April 30, 2009 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    Installing the All in One SEo plugin is another good opion to increase the SEO factor of the title.

    In addition we suggest that installing a Google Sitemap Generator is one of the easiest steps to increase the opPage SEo factor. However, still many people do not know about its value. Today several plugins exist for several CMS and Blog platforms such as Joomla or WordPress. This makes creating a Google Sitemap very easy.

  2. Posted May 6, 2009 at 3:49 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the SEO help for my blog which isn’t doing that well for rankings. I downloaded your plugin.
    Geoff

  3. webicons
    Posted October 15, 2009 at 4:18 pm | Permalink

    This is exactly what I was looking for.I'll try to make some of them for my new blog.Thanks for sharing.
    angelineray@gmail.com

  4. dctommy
    Posted November 25, 2009 at 4:23 am | Permalink

    I switched it out like you said. And now my preferred title shows up – however it is repeated twice. Looks like they may have added some code to this file in more recent versions of this theme. Maybe you could take a look at the lastest version and tell us what to tweak? :)

    I am also using the montezuma theme by the same author – which has the same problem!!! Help! Why doesn't the author address this critical issue? Otherwise the template is brilliant…

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