Maor Chasen

<p>By using Optimized Dropdown Menus Widget, you’ll be able to create dropdown menus that are searchable or “spiderable” by search engine bots.</p>
<h4>So how does it work?</h4>
<p>Basically, it works like this:</p>
<p>The menu’s markup code is being printed as an ordinary nested menu. e.g.</p>
<pre><code><ul>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/page-another">Another Page</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/yao">Yet Another One</a></li>
</ul>
</code></pre>
<p>Since most browsers support JavaScript, using the widget, the markup would be translated into something like this</p>
<pre><code><select>
    <option value="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</option>
    ...
    <option value="http://example.com/page">Something else</option>
</select>
</code></pre>
<p>The tricky part here is, that search engines do not usually interpret JavaScript, all they will be able to scan is the nested menu. That way they will reach out for those pages, and most probably will crawl those pages as well.</p>
<p>ODM also supports a range of per-widget settings:</p>
<ul>
<li>Control whether links will be open in new window or in the same window</li>
<li>Choose to use HTML5/XHTML markup for the menu</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features set for the next versions</h4>
<p>Soon there will be an option for developers to use the same functionality via the code. e.g.
    </p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Currently, these translations are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – in courtesy of <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ognjen Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS) – in courtesy of <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ognjen Djuraskovic</a></li>
</ul>


Optimized Dropdown Menus

Create "spiderable" drop-down menus that every search engine will scan!

Sami Keijonen

<p>This plugin register a widget to display authors by role in a sidebar. You can choose whether to display author post count, biography or gravatar.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Go to Appearance >> Widgets. There you can find widget called Display Authors Widget. There are some settings in a widget.</p>
<ul>
<li>Title: Set whatever title you want, or leave it blank to disable the title.</li>
<li>Role: Choose which role authors you want to display.</li>
<li>Display Post Count?: This displays the number of posts the author have published. This will only be shown if there are at least one post by author. The format<br />
is Author name ($number). </li>
<li>Display Author Bio?: If checked, this will display the author’s bio as set in their WordPress profile page.</li>
<li>Display Author Gravatar?: If checked, this will display the author’s gravatar.</li>
<li>Gravatar Size: This is the size of the gravatar image in pixels. Do not write px or pixels in this field. If you want gravatar size to be 50px, then write “50” in this field.</li>
<li>Gravatar Alignment: Choose whether you want to display gravatar on the left, right or no alignment at all.</li>
<li>Limit: This will allow you to set the number of authors that are displayed in the widget.</li>
</ul>


Optimized Dropdown Menus vs Display Authors Widget