Customise the WordPress Search results page
Another in my series of Peachpit Web Design Reference Guide WordPress articles was published the other day — Customizing WordPress 2.5.1: Search:
After arriving at your blog, visitors may want to search for specific items you have written about. Make sure visitors have easy access to Search and that results are useful to them. This article, based on WordPress 2.6.1, shows you how to make sure visitors find what they’re looking for on your blog.
Search is such an important part of any website. Use this article to really help your visitors.
Make 404 Pages much more helpful in WordPress
My Peachpit Web Design Reference Guide article about keeping lost visitors on your site has been published — Customizing WordPress 2.5.1: 404 Pages:
Friendly text and useful links in the
404.phpfile give your confused visitors a much more pleasant experience when visiting your site. They will stay, rather than go, and they may even come back again.
Make your blog just a bit friendlier. 