Robots.txt is a simple text file that you upload to your server root. It contains instructions for search engines indexing your site, ie. follow that link, don’t index this directory, etc. You can get help creating a WordPress-specific robots.txt file at Ask Apache: Robots.txt For WordPress. Discussion is open below in the comments if you want to add to this tip.
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BuddyPress Daily is a highly flexible theme based around a news layout.
It’s all about giving you options with offering 8 distinctive designs alongside our usual home page layouts and content options.
Alongside that, it’s our first theme that naturally supports front page video posts (see below).
And of course it works perfectly for BuddyPress, WPMU and regular WordPress too.
With BuddyPress Daily your site will always make the headlines!
You can customize the look and feel with ease:
Various featured content layouts – video, content tabs and slideshow
Various home page content layouts – columns, the wall (a fantastic new way of displaying your images) and rows
And there are great automatic image and advertisement placement options too, you can:
Show images from your posts without using custom fields – it just works by pulling your first image through
Spotlight category on your home page
Advert placement: header, side wide block, skyscrapers: Simply add your advert code and it picks it up or add a link to an image from your media library
Set a square logo, logo or site title for your image
Alongside that of course you can upload custom headers and allow multiple widget areas.
But we didn’t stop there, packing this theme with an amazing number of other features:
Blog / news template, full width template and default 2 column template
Site message displayed at the top of your site
Automatic bread crumbs for BuddyPress and if you just use it without BuddyPress it reverts to WordPress bread crumbs
Shows your server time and date on your site automatically
Support for multiple languages (default mo and po files and rtl.css)
8 distinctive designs that go beyond simple colour changes
Create your own design using the simple colour picking theme options that require no code being touched to change colours and fonts
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Mar 29, 2010 
Robots.txt is a simple text file that you upload to your server root. It contains instructions for search engines indexing your site, ie. follow that link, don’t index this directory, etc. You can get help creating a WordPress-specific robots.txt file at Ask Apache: Robots.txt For WordPress. Discussion is open below in the comments if you want to add to this tip.
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