goldenapples
commented
12 years ago Some good points.
I don't know if its 100% true or not that pages which include guery string variables are not indexed the same way by Google, etc. - I think the reality of how Google guesses at canonical urls when none are specified, or flows pagerank between links, is a lot more complicated. But... thats not my area of expertise at all.
I think as a general rule, it makes more sense to me for two different views of the same archive that only differ by their sort order be differentiated by a query string variable rather than by url path components. But I do see your point about making them static pages - that way people could, if they desired, style the "new" links page differently from the "controversial" one. And... it seems like that would be easy enough to implement.
Hadn't heard of Nominate theme before, but it looks like an interesting project. At the very least, it would be good to look into the format they use to store data, so that I can offer an import / export of data between this plugin and the Nominate theme.
Pagination only seems to work if you haven't filtered
THIS WORKS: http://www.website.com/reclinks/page/2
THIS DOESN'T: http://www.website.com/reclinks/?sort=newest/page/2
It would be nice if those "filters" could actually be static pages anyway.
IE: http://www.website.com/reclinks/newest_posts http://www.website.com/reclinks/popular_today http://www.website.com/reclinks/popular_this_week http://www.website.com/reclinks/popular_all_time
Having static pages for these "filters" (which you now just have using what appears to be the standard built-in wordpress filtering calls) would be a lot better because each of those individual pages could then build up their own PageRank the way inbound.org's do. For example; their front page is a PR5, but their http://inbound.org/incoming/ is a PR3 all on its own (the ability for those individual-pages to have their own PR is incredibly valuable because that means that the 25 newest submissions are getting PR juice too, not just the 25 on the front page (that's much much more incentive for people to submit new content (they get a PR3 just for posting, without even getting a single vote yet, that's awesome).
So on a related topic: Not sure if you've noticed this but inbound.org's site appears to be amazingly similar to your plugin. I talked to their developer and he said they were actually using a customized version of the Nominate theme (http://prothemedesign.com/themes/nominate-for-wordpress/) but I still say it looks a hell of a lot more like yours than theirs. Some obvious ones are that they have 25 posts per page just like yours, they use the word karma like yours, and most of all, all their listing links are IDENTICAL to your votebox() even the linear order of those links in your votebox() are the same.
Anyway, hope that static-pages thing might be something you could implement INSTEAD OF trying to fix pagination ith filtering problem.
Am I driving you nuts yet? I played around with that Nominate theme earlier tonight by the way, and I'm definitely not a big fan, yours is so much easier to customize, well worth waiting for.
thanks brother