I must say I am blessed to have my own home office overlooking our backyard garden along with a great view of the sunrise. I get up each day at about 5am, take the two minute commute to my office where I spend the first part of my morning sucking back coffee and reading my favorite blog feeds for inspiration.

The first post that caught my attention this morning was from BlogBloke’s Blog. BB’s post about the secret of modifying or debugging your blog template brought to mind my experiences modifying templates.

When I read the part about the importance of making modifications in small increments I started to chuckle and my mind was flooded with memories of going way too far with modifications. Great advice BB.

BB’s post made me think of one thing that I change right away for each blog I have.

What does the link to your home page say?? Most I have seen just say ‘Home’ which doesn’t help in the search engine rankings does it.

Your blog or website is about backyard gardening, so tell me which you think would be better:

‘Home’ or ‘Backyard Gardening Home’

I personally prefer to keyword my links so they are more search engine focused so I would definitely use the second option as a link to my home page.

Changing this link site wide can seem out of your reach but it really isn’t because you only need to make one simple modification for that link to change through every single page of your blog.

Simple Step by Step Tip For Modifying Your WordPress Header Template Home Page Link

  1. When in doubt always backup your blog first. Once that’s done…
  2. Enter the WP-Admin area. http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin
  3. Click the Presentation menu link.
  4. Next click the Theme Editor Link. This will show you the files you can modify, no need to get stressed.
  5. You are looking for the Header link on the right. Click that link.
  6. Scan through the code window until you see code similar to:

    <li class=”<?php if (is_home()) { ?>home<?php } else { ?>page_item<?php } ?>”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>” title=”Home”>Home</a></li>

    You don’t need to delete anything and you are only changing the text that appears on your blog. Instead of it just saying Home you can change it. I have mine as ‘Make Money Online Home‘ instead of just ‘Home‘When you are done it would like similar to:

    <li class=”<?php if (is_home()) { ?>home<?php } else { ?>page_item<?php } ?>”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>” title=”Home”>Keyword Phrase Home</a></li>

  7. Now you just need to click the Update File button at the bottom of the edit window.

That was pretty straight forward, hope this tips helps.

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