If you are using the Redirection plugin (as I do on all of the blog sites I publish or manage) then you are likely to see the “WordPress_Module::_weak_escape” error and no blog site after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8.x
It’s scary at first, but the fix is simple:- use your FTP client to rename the redirection directory under wp-content/plugins
- login to your Wordpress admin section
- under plugins, upgrade redirection to the latest version and reactivate
Your world is restored!
The default Media Settings for Wordpress 2.7 do not usually give the results that one is expecting. Rather than rescaling the image, v2.7 crops the image to an arbitary 150px square (like what you see below).
The fix is simple, as the screenshot shows.
Hope this helps smooth over your day.
Quantcast is an Internet Rating service which quantifies your traffic and provides demographics on your site visitors (mainly aimed at the US market). In addition to making the value of your site’s traffic to potential advertisers, Quantcast also provides useful information about other sites targeting similar audiences.
I have just made the first release of a plugin which makes adding the Quantcast quantified publisher tag to your Wordpress blog a snap. Its features are –
- no need to change you templates
- just enter your Quantified Publisher account id in the options page
- optionally exclude administration pages
- optionally exclude page views by logged in users (by level)
My plugin draws heavily on a similar plugin which adds Google Analytics tracking to your Wordpress blog. This is the Ultimate GA Plugin by Wilfred van der Deijl
The plugincan be downloaded here is only lightly tested, feel free to comment if you have problems or suggestions.
In this post I described how, and why, you should make sure that your site present itself to the world with, or without the www in its URL. Take a moment to read that article, but if your site is based on Wordpress, skip over the technical HowTo there — there is a much easier way to deal with the issue on Wordpress. Read the rest of this entry »
Wikipedia describes a Trackback thus…
Trackbacks are used primarily to facilitate communication between blogs; if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack ping”; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. This allows for conversations spanning several blogs that readers can easily follow.
As a publisher, Trackbacks are a great way to add fresh new content on your own blog while actually making a comment about quality content written by someone else. Read the rest of this entry »
As a business blog publisher you should bear in mind that
- your readership will include busy professionals who will not necessarily want to read your content from the screen
- readers may collect together a “reading folder” which they read during specific times of the day (eg while commuting)
- you are publishing valuable information which your readers might want to share in printed form
So it stands to reason that you should cater for these needs. This is where the Print my Post plugin comes in.
This plugin generates the Print this post link you can see at the top of each page on this blog.
Click on the link at the top of this post for a demo.
I recommend this simple and effective plugin. If you believe that it is adding value to your blog, you should consider making a donation to the author.
ClickBank lists thousands of digital products (eBooks and software) offered for sale by publishers from around the world. The products range, to be honest, from the brilliant to trivial, but are in the main well priced and worth the price paid. The products all have their own sales pages so you can readily assess the likely value before parting with your hard earned cash.
I have included a list of products available from ClickBank related to blogging and RSS here. You can also browse popular ClickBank listings on my ClickBank Mall.
You can also use ClickBank products to monetize your blog as most of the publishers on ClickBank offer affiliate programs paying commissions of up to 75% of the cost of their product if you introduce a sale to them.
Find out more about ClickBank and then take a look at CBProsense, a subscription service which provides a service similar to Google Adsense, but for ClickBank products.
In a future post, I’ll give you more information about how to integrate ClickBank into your Wordpress blog.
Have you noticed how some sites have their logo displayed in the address bar of your browser?
It will look something like this
This little icon is also used in the browser’s Bookmarks list and it helps to make the site stand out from all of the rest of the web sites in the world.
If your site doesn’t have a unique icon you can turn your logo (or a square variant of the logo) into a FavIcon and have your site send this out to browsers when visitors come to your site.
These are the steps to do this…
- Get, or make, a gif jpg or png image about 50×50 pixels in size. It’s best to use just a couple of colours in this image
- Head over to http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ where you can submit your image to be converted.
- From there, download the Favicon file, it will be called favicon.ico
- Upload the .ico file to the root of your website
- Next, insert the below code in the HEAD section of your pages, at the very least, your site’s main index page:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
- You’re done. Note that your favicon may not appear immediately after you’ve completed the above two steps. In fact, it may take a few days, and in IE, sometimes the favicon will disappear from time to time due to a browser bug.
I have just installed ScribeFire in my Firefox Browser and used it to make this post.
Obviously I have done virtually no testing yet, ut Iif you like to live on the ragged edge, give it a try…
I’ll post a review as soon as I have had time to check it out properly.
ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured
blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post
to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are
browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
Powered by ScribeFire.
