9 useful Serendipity tutorials

9 useful Serendipity tutorials

Yesterday I wrote about a versatile CMS: Serendipity. This post collects 9 useful tutorials that might help you optimize your blog’s performance and layout.

Yesterday I wrote about a versatile CMS: Serendipity. This post collects 9 useful tutorials that might help you optimize your blog’s performance and layout.

How to highlight the authors comments in Serendipity? This obviously is a common question for beginners as all the competitors have some sort of solution for this design request. In Serendipity there is no need for third party plugins as it adds a class for each comment structured as follows: serendipity_comment_author_Commenter-Name. So all you need to do is to give a style in your cascading style sheet (CSS) for the unique classes you want to stand out.

Guys at Optimal Necessity have a powerful SEO tutorial how to optimize your Serendipity blog using meta tags.

If you run a developer blog or if you want to post articles on Serendipity based website that includes source code you probably already ran into the problem of syntax highlighting. Andre Simon has the solution for you in a syntax highlighter plugin for this CMS.

A great person who has a good collection of Serendipity tutorials is Carl Galloway. I chose six tutorials of his that are considerably useful.

  1. How to setup a website with Serendipity CMS
  2. How to create and advertise your Serendipity theme
  3. New ways for creating Serendipity quick search forms
  4. Replacing titles with images – kind of Zen Garden style
  5. How to promote your latest post by highlighting it
  6. Serendipity SEO: breadcrumbs trail

Comments

  1. Stunning input about SEO. I’m frankly amazed that that has not really been told before to such an extent.

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