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More Wordpress 2.6 Problems - Wordpress Turbo

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Ryan Jarrett
 on July 22, 2008
 in Blogs and Site
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If you’ve upgraded Wordpress to version 2.6 then you may have noticed a new option in the top right hand corner, labelled “Turbo”.  Clicking this enables the use of Google Gears in your Wordpress installation, allowing offline posting - brilliant!

However, it has taken me a few attempts to get this working ok.  I encountered a few errors along the way, but they all seemed to be instances of two particular response codes - 403 and 500.  After a bit of digging around, this is how I solved them.

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Tips for Selling Your Website? Make Sure its Up To Scratch First

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Ryan Jarrett
 on June 4, 2008
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Kieron Donoghue, of www.here.org.uk, has written a great post about what information you should disclose to buyers when trying to sell your site.  Within his post he has compiled a list of 10 things you should tell potential clients, but these also seem like good metrics to measure how good your site is and therefore are the areas you should concentrate on if you’re trying to improve your site.  After all, if you’re telling the client about these things then they have to be good.

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RSS Awareness Day

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Ryan Jarrett
 on May 1, 2008
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RSS Awareness Day

I’ve just found out that 1st May is RSS Awareness Day! I’m aware that most people I know, outside of the tech/blogging sphere, don’t use RSS or are even aware what RSS is, so I’m quite pleased that RSS Awareness Day exists to promote it.

For the complete lowdown on RSS Awareness Day go to www.rssday.org, where you can find out what RSS actually is, what is can do and how it can benefit you.  For a quick primer, read this quote from the site:

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website.

The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content.

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