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If you’ve done your keyword research and SEO correctly, then you should be getting traffic to your posts for years to come.

But you will need your content to look fresh to your visitors even if those visitors arrive on the post next week, next month or next year.

Before we go on, ask your self this question, the last time you visited a blog and saw that the date on a post was more than a year old, how long did you stay? Did you even bother to read the post? And if you did, was there a doubt in your mind about the validity of such an old post?

A simple solution to keeping your content live and valid in the eyes of your visitors is to remove or hide the Date & Time stamps on your posts. Neither is difficult to do in your Flexibility 2 theme. Read the rest of this entry »

When I’ve spent time and effort altering the layout, look and feel of a flexibility 2 (or flexsqueeze) theme the last thing I want is the little downward pointing arrows in the title bar of my widget.

1/ If you are using Adsense in a text box then the arrow could be seen as a beach of Googles TOS.

2/ If you change the titles of the widget then the arrows overlay themselves onto the first letter – Ugly!

So to get rid of them find this file:-

/public_html/yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/flexibility2 (or flexsqueeze)/images/sidebar-h2-bg.png

Put it into a graphics programme and crop off the arrow. You don’t need to resize the file.

Now upload the file and that should fix it.

Easy.

(Thanks to Annerjen in New Zealand for that tip.)

Flexibility 2 is the free version of Flexsqueeze theme from Ryan Hellyer . Now granted, it isn’t quite as feature rich as it’s paid for cousin, but with a few tweaks and changes you can make it do almost amything you want.

To change from the standard 2 plus 1 theme that comes out of the box, to make a good squeeze page here is what I do;

I open up the editor box to 30 lines and then and add TinyMCE advanced plugin.

Then I make the following changes to the php files.

To remove comments from pages.
Remove this line. <?php comments_template(); ?> From Pages.php and main.php

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To Remove sidebars add the line:
#sidebar {display:none;} at the very bottom of style.php Then go into flexibility 2 settings and reduce the right and left sidebars to 0

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To remove the navigation bar add the line:
#nav {display:none;} at the bottom of style.php

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If you want to remove all titles, you will need to edit the index.php, single.php, archive.php and page.php files. Just look for the H1 or H2 tags in each page, and remove everything from the opening tag (<h1>) to the closing tag (</h1>).

The pages are displayed by the page.php file. The posts are displayed by the single.php file. So if you want to remove just the PAGE titles, edit the page.php file. Remove <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

You should be good to go from there.