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Solving Feedburner Feedsmith plugin problems with Wordpress 2.9

January 3rd, 2010 · Comments

If you’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.9 like me, you might have found that the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin recommended by Google and Feedburner has now stopped working. In fact, I couldn’t even upload it to a new site which hasn’t been upgraded to 2.9.
There’s been no word from Feedburner about this (No surprise, since their original [...]

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Tags: Blogging · wordpress

Google help with changing blog platforms

January 12th, 2009 · Comments

As someone who moved this blog from Blogger to the current self-hosted Wordpress location back in April, I’m keenly aware of the problems you can encounter if you switch blogging platforms.
As a result, I’d defintely advise starting with Wordpress, but if you’re not ready to host your own site (It’s really far more simple than [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Time for some housekeeping…

July 18th, 2008 · Comments

I’ve been trying to manually import the remaining content from my old Blogger blog, but it’s been slow going. So there may be a little less posting while I finally finish the job.
Plus I also need to upgrade my blogs to the new Wordpress 2.6. I hesitated a little due the problems outlined hear, but [...]

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Tags: Blogging

New Wordpress 2.6 arrives – one month ahead of schedule…

July 15th, 2008 · Comments

I know all the tech news type blogs will have covered this in-depth, but the new version of Wordpress, 2.6 ‘Tyner’ has arrived one month ahead of schedule and looks awesome.
Post from anywhere is going to be incredibly useful, particularly in a blogosphere still worrying that microblogging is quicker and easier.  The wiki tracking of [...]

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Tags: Blogging · wordpress