Online Tech

I edited wp-admin/index.php to show feedburner feed subscriber counts. Since I have just converted to using WordPress, the subscriber counts are low - of course! - and I’m better off not publicizing the actual counts. Nobody wants to be the only subscriber!

I’m making note of this so I’ll remember to carry the change forward the next upgrade.

Other blogs discussing: wordpress tips, feedburner tips, wordpress, best practices

Here is an unexpectedly nice feature… I subscribed to FeedBulletin rss on my ‘My Google’ page. Suddenly a Feedburner Medic Alert appeared! What happened? My feed disappeared.

Why did it disappear? I’ll get to that in a moment. The cool thing about this, though, is that feedburner informed me in real time, that my feed was broken. How cool is that?

Okay, so what happened?

If you are doing multiple feeds from your site, or are limiting the feed to a specific category, don’t mess with that category! In my case, I was rearranging the categories so they would look nicer on the side bar. Unfortunately, in the process, I deleted the category which was one of the feeds!

How do we fix the problem? I went into my feedburner account, clicked on the feed in question, clicked on edit the feed, and told it to point to the correct category. Since all of my feeds are running through feedburner, if I change a feed url, the only thing I need to change is to edit the feed inside feedburner. The published feed url, doesn’t change. Very nice

Other blogs discussing: feedburner, feedburner tips, best practices, troubleshooting, feedburner troubleshooting, wordpress tips, wordpress customization, multiple feeds, rss feeds, multiple rss feeds, wordpress feeds, feedburner medic alert

Technorati Juice - Need to finish reading this one too. How to use a logo as part of your technorati profile and get into the rotation, etc.

Other blogs discussing: technorati, site logo, best practices, blogs, blogging, tutorials

Pro Blogger News - Here’s another site I need to study, as I remodel my archive into a blog!

Other blogs discussing: best practices, blogging, pro blogger, blogger news

I added a google box in front of the technorati tags, to see if it shows up through the rss feed.

Other blogs discussing: google, google tips, adsense, technorati tips, rss, blogs, feedburner, wordpress tips

Nope, still takes 30 seconds to post a blog entry. I wonder if anybody has a hack for doing the pings in the background. I’m guessing the pinging is the slowdown.

I turned off automatic sitemap generation to see if that noticeably speeds up posting of blog entries. If it does, I’ll probably set an hourly crontab to trigger the update.

After adding feedflare, the home page took forever to load. So, I commented it out on the home page. This is the thingy that lets you email the article, etc.

I also notice it’s only on the more recent articles, so I’m guessing that it’s only applied to items that feedburner has seen in the rss list. I’m bumping the rss feed count to 50 (I currently have 44 articles) temporarily so that feedburner sees everything, and adding this blog entry to push everything out to feedburner.

When logged into the admin area, it uses the same page title (the site name) as the publicly-viewable site does. I can’t distinguish the two in my list of window icons.
I changed /wp-admin/admin-header.php to begin with the text Admin:. So, the regular site shows ‘Next Time O…’ and the admin login shows ‘Admin:Next Tim…’ and I can pick out which windows are which.

I created a new category to track this kind of thing, so that I can remember what to re-change after software upgrades, and to do the same thing on the other wordpress installs.

Other blogs discussing: wordpress, wordpress hacks, admin,   wordpress admin, wordpress admin theme, admin theme, wordpress upgrade, wordpress install

Technorati tags: an introduction Excellent discussion by Improbulus, including experiences, links to other articles, and good comments appended.

Other blogs discussing: Improbulus, technorati, tags, technorati tags