Category Archive: WordPress

May
14

Recommended WordPress Ping List

I have updated my ping list for WordPress after reading this post. The list still uses Ping-o-Matic, but also includes a few other sites I had not thought about; http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://bblog.com/ping.php http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates http://xping.pubsub.com/ping So, now I just have to see if this increases the traffic. What …

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Mar
18

“Windows Web Gallery” Announced

Microsoft have just spoken about the new Windows Web Gallery at Mix09 Basically the Windows Web Gallery is a single web site that makes community apps available based on both ASP.Net and PHP.  The site is still in its early days, but already features well known apps such as DotNetNuke and WordPress.  There is also a …

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Mar
05

WordPress Twitter Integration

Ok. So, I’m finally using Twitter and I love it! Now I want to hook my blog up to my Twitter account so that anybody following me on Twitter gets a Tweet when I post. So, I did a quick Google and I have just installed TweetSuite.  Seems to do all I wanted and more.  …

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May
06

Windows Live Writer and WordPress Error – Invalid response document returned from XmlRcp Server….SOLUTION

Today, I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1, which I am glad to say was really simple.  Along with this, one of my colleagues suggested I try Windows Live Writer as a blogging tool to post to this blog, so I installed it. When you first open Windows Live Writer it has to query your blog via …

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Mar
31

Do I need a blog for my business?

I was asked this question this week by one of my clients for whom I produce a couple of web sites for that have been growing steadily for a couple of years. So, I thought I would post about this question from a general point of view; So, do you need one? Before, you we …

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Mar
31

WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Complete

Hi all, I know I haven’t posted for a couple of weeks now, but I have been really busy! Just a quick post to say that I have just upgraded WordPress 2.3 to WordPress 2.5. This was my first upgrade with WordPress and I must admit, I am very impressed. The upgrade was seamless! Just …

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Mar
11

WordPress Rich Text Editor (TinyMCE) not working….

After some more playing around with my blog today, I realised that the rich text editor including with WordPress (TinyMCE) was not displaying at all. After some more searching, it became obvious that this again was not a problem unique to myself.  Did some digging around and the fix is as follows; In the tiny_mce_gzip.php …

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Mar
10

WordPress CGI Error (The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers)

This morning, I decided, for the third time, that I was going to start a blog. My previous two ventures led to me simply not writing anything at all :p. This time, I hope it will be different. And, for once, I have something relevant to post because this blog nearly didnt happen! After deciding …

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