Comments on: Search Engine Verify WordPress Plugin

By: akaGaGa

akaGaGa — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:38:34 +0000

Yeah, hurray, it worked! I have tried to do this unsuccessfully for weeks. I’m a non-geek, and I just moved my blog from blogger to my own domain, so this is one more frustration in the learning curve that I no longer have to deal with.

Thank you so much.

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:54:09 +0000

Brilliant, thanks for that. Just had to re-verify one of my blogs and it’s always been a pain trying to use the upload file method, as my URL naming structure doesn’t map what google expects. Being able to specify the meta tag like this makes thing much easier. Thanks!!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:41:28 +0000

@Hugh, thanks for the heads up – Google have just changed the meta tag name for their verification. I’ve updated this post and the plugin with the new name.. you should get automatic notification shortly..

By: Hugh Flouch

Hugh Flouch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:57:52 +0000

Ok, sorted it – I went in and edited the plug-in – changed meta name content titlt to “google-site-verification” from “verify-v1″ and it seems to have picked it up.

By: Hugh Flouch

Hugh Flouch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:52:01 +0000

Google doesn’t seem to be recognising my meta-tag

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:23:09 +0000

@Alex – thanks for trying it and letting me know!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:13:14 +0000

Works a treat and made my life a hell of a lot easier, especially with multiple sites.

Thanks again.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:16:20 +0000

@TJ – thanks for the comment, and glad you like it. I will update the documentation to make it clearer how to add the codes.

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:18:14 +0000

Thank you! Much easier and faster than editing the header.php file, especially if you change themes often!

I had a little trouble finding where to enter the codes. WP 2.8.4 doesn’t have an “Options” area now, and I didn’t see at first that installing it adds an entry in the “Settings” menu.

I will be adding this to client sites, too.