The default title for Gallery2 item uploads is the file name of the image. It easier to name your files well from the beginning from the safety of either than edit the URL, titles, and keywords for your item after they are uploaded. My naming convention for a file name is photo_set-photo_subset-people_or_objects. For a photo of my parents, my bride and myself at my wedding, I used “wedding-party-parents-rachel-stephen.jpg”

When creating titles this script does the following via regular expressions:

• Removes ‘copy’ (a common OS-X filename suffix)
• Removes underscores at beginning
• Removes underscores at end
• Removes double underscores
• Removes left and right parenthesis
• Removes all single digit numbers and letters
• Replaces underscores and hyphens with space

When creating keywords from titles, this script removes the following common words and inserts commas between the remaining words:

a, about, above, across, act, add, after, again, against, all, along, also, amid, among, an, and, any, are, around, as, at, back, be, been, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond, but, by, came, can, cause, change, close, come, concerning, considering, could, cover, cross, despite, did, differ, do, does, down, draw, during, each, even, every, except, excepting, excluding, far, few, find, follow, following, for, found, four, from, get, give, go, grow, had, hard, has, have, he, her, here, high, him, his, how, if, in, inside, into, is, it, just, keep, know, large, last, late, left, let, like, little, long, look, made, make, many, may, might, minus, more, most, move, much, must, my, near, never, no, now, of, off, on, one, only, onto, opposite, or, other, our, out, outside, over, own, part, past, per, plus, put, regarding, right, said, same, saw, say, see, self, set, she, should, side, small, so, some, still, such, take, tell, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, thing, this, three, through, to, too, toward, towards, try, two, under, underneath, unlike, until, up, upon, us, use, versus, very, via, want, was, way, we, went, were, what, when, where, which, while, who, why, will, with, within, without, would, you, your

Usage

You can either edit the setup variables in the script or use URL variables (such as “?field=g_keywords&begin_id=3000″). That example would insert keywords (test insert, not commit) based on the titles of all items after item 3000.

Requirements

• Some familiarity with the PHP language
• Login credentials: server, username, database name, password
• Item ID to begin with (default is 0, that is “all items”)
• If you want to change my default title word removal listed above, familiarity with regular expressions

Download Gallery2 titles and keywords SEO script

NOTE: You will need to rename the “.txt” file to “.php” in order to run it on your server. Also this script will edit not only item names, but also albums. I’ve included copious comments in this script to aid in customizing it to your needs.

Edit One
This edit comments out all the SideBlog plug-in’s output except for the permalink and the content. You will find this code within SideBlog 5.1 at about line 170 within the function, sideblog($asidecategory=”).

// smjdesign BEGIN edit
$replacements[] = $sideblog_content->post_title;
// $replacements[] = wpautop($sideblog_content->post_content);
// $replacements[] = "<a href=\"" . $permalink . "\">#</a>";
$replacements[] = "<a href=\"" . $permalink . "\">"
.format_if_content_contains_link($sideblog_content->post_content);
// $replacements[] = "<a href=\"" . $permalink . "\" title=\""
.$sideblog_content->post_title . "\">"
.$sideblog_content->post_title . "</a>";
// $replacements[] = $sideblog_content->post_date;
// $replacements[] = "<a href=\"" . $permalink . "\">"
.$sideblog_content->post_date . "</a>";
// $replacements[] = $excerpt;
// $replacements[] = $excerpt2;
// smjdesign END edit

Edit Two:
Place the function, format_if_content_contains_link(), within sideblog.php. I have placed around line 200 after function, sideblog(). This function tests to see if the post content contains a link. There are better (non Regular Expression) ways to do this with PHP5. This function is needed to make content that contain links valid HTML (or XHTML). If not used, links tags will encapsulate other links tags.

// smjdesign BEGIN edit
function format_if_content_contains_link($content) {
	if( substr($content, strlen($content)-4 , 4) == "</a>" ) {
		$content_arr = split("<a href",$content);
		$content = preg_replace( "/<a href/", "</a><a href", $content, 1);
	}
	else {
		$content .= "</a>";
	}
	return ($content);
}
// smjdesign END edit

You can view the output of these changes in the sidebar at my personal site, Rachel and Stephen.

How to keep SideBlog posts within your post query

I noticed that quite a few people are discovering this page by wanting to NOT exclude “SideBlog categories” from the general post query (i.e.- from index.php). To do that, you will want to remove/comment out the filter:

add_filter('pre_get_posts','sideblog_post_filter');