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Squidoo Revisited

Ive spent a bit of time recently updating my Squidoo lenses.
What the hell is that? I hear you ask..
Well, it’s a kind of Web 2.0 website development system.
You create a Lens (site) by picking modules, and organising them to form a site.
You then configure the modules, and add your content. I find that I get a steady stream of traffic from mine.

I (now) have a separate lens set up for each website, with links to the site, and an RSS feed from it. Lots of pictures, lots of links.

Each site also has eBay and Amazon affiliate modules..

Oh, and apparently my original Squidoo Lens (Quirky Cars) is now a “Featured” Lens…

I’m watching the referrals in GA Stats. May be interesting..


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RSS Error: Blank Line(s) at start of XML – Solution.

I noticed that suddenly I wasn’t getting my daily e-mail message from one of my sites.
Now, these messages are generated automatically via feedburner, so it’s either feedburner, or gmail, or the actual site RSS feed.

Checked GMAIL to make sure the messages weren’t ending up in the SPAM. Nope.
Checked Feedburner. Stats looked OK, but “REACH” had dropped to zero about four days ago.
Damn. Feedburner handles the twitter feed AND email subscriptions.

Further investigation showed that the RSS feed was no longer valid. Blank lines at the start of the XML.

Tried the two main solutions:
fix-rss plugin. Nope.
Then the whitespace remover thing. Nope.

Bit more research, and then I came across a post that suggested looking in the THEME’s functions.php file. Alarm bells! I edited that about four days ago..

Loaded it up, and it was a mess. I must have been asleep when I edited that.
Re-loaded the file from backup. (You DO have a backup, right?)
And away we go. RSS is back. Feedburner is back.

RESULT!


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RSS Error: Blank Line(s) at start of XML – Solution.

I noticed that suddenly I wasn’t getting my daily e-mail message from one of my sites.
Now, these messages are generated automatically via feedburner, so it’s either feedburner, or gmail, or the actual site RSS feed.

Checked GMAIL to make sure the messages weren’t ending up in the SPAM. Nope.
Checked Feedburner. Stats looked OK, but “REACH” had dropped to zero about four days ago.
Damn. Feedburner handles the twitter feed AND email subscriptions.

Further investigation showed that the RSS feed was no longer valid. Blank lines at the start of the XML.

Tried the two main solutions:
fix-rss plugin. Nope.
Then the whitespace remover thing. Nope.

Bit more research, and then I came across a post that suggested looking in the THEME’s functions.php file. Alarm bells! I edited that about four days ago..

Loaded it up, and it was a mess. I must have been asleep when I edited that.
Re-loaded the file from backup. (You DO have a backup, right?)
And away we go. RSS is back. Feedburner is back.

RESULT!


Byq292u
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RSS Error: Blank Line(s) at start of XML – Solution.

I noticed that suddenly I wasn’t getting my daily e-mail message from one of my sites.
Now, these messages are generated automatically via feedburner, so it’s either feedburner, or gmail, or the actual site RSS feed.

Checked GMAIL to make sure the messages weren’t ending up in the SPAM. Nope.
Checked Feedburner. Stats looked OK, but “REACH” had dropped to zero about four days ago.
Damn. Feedburner handles the twitter feed AND email subscriptions.

Further investigation showed that the RSS feed was no longer valid. Blank lines at the start of the XML.

Tried the two main solutions:
fix-rss plugin. Nope.
Then the whitespace remover thing. Nope.

Bit more research, and then I came across a post that suggested looking in the THEME’s functions.php file. Alarm bells! I edited that about four days ago..

Loaded it up, and it was a mess. I must have been asleep when I edited that.
Re-loaded the file from backup. (You DO have a backup, right?)
And away we go. RSS is back. Feedburner is back.

RESULT!


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Social Media Integration | Facebook | Twitter/Tweetmeme

Had a bit of a successful day yesterday.
Flushed with the success of my attempts to properly integrate with twitter/tweetmeme, I thought I’d have a go at Facebook as well.

I now have facebook integration on three sites: “like” buttons, login with facebook id, etc, nice.

Getting the tweetmeme and “like” buttons to display nice was another story, however.
In the end, I had to disable automatic placement, remove formatting for tweetmeme, and manually place the buttons in the template code, inside a table.. Sorted.

Plugins used: tweetmeme button, “Simple facebook connect” + login, publish etc..


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Social Media Integration | Facebook | Twitter/Tweetmeme

Had a bit of a successful day yesterday.
Flushed with the success of my attempts to properly integrate with twitter/tweetmeme, I thought I’d have a go at Facebook as well.

I now have facebook integration on three sites: “like” buttons, login with facebook id, etc, nice.

Getting the tweetmeme and “like” buttons to display nice was another story, however.
In the end, I had to disable automatic placement, remove formatting for tweetmeme, and manually place the buttons in the template code, inside a table.. Sorted.

Plugins used: tweetmeme button, “Simple facebook connect” + login, publish etc..


Byq292u
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Social Media Integration | Facebook | Twitter/Tweetmeme

Had a bit of a successful day yesterday.
Flushed with the success of my attempts to properly integrate with twitter/tweetmeme, I thought I’d have a go at Facebook as well.

I now have facebook integration on three sites: “like” buttons, login with facebook id, etc, nice.

Getting the tweetmeme and “like” buttons to display nice was another story, however.
In the end, I had to disable automatic placement, remove formatting for tweetmeme, and manually place the buttons in the template code, inside a table.. Sorted.

Plugins used: tweetmeme button, “Simple facebook connect” + login, publish etc..


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WordPress/Tweetmeme

Installed tweetmeme buttons on one of my sites.
Bit of a nightmare!
First, they didn’t appear at all. Tried their solution for that. (wp-footer) No good.
Tried inserting javascript directly. No good.
Traced problem to “mod_rewrite” rules used by supercache.
Removed rules (not used anyway), and NONE of my post links work 🙁
Reset permalinks settings, (-> default, then -> custom) which rewrites the htaccess file, and we’re up.
.. and we have tweetmeme buttons. Excellent!


Byq292u
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WordPress/Tweetmeme

Installed tweetmeme buttons on one of my sites.
Bit of a nightmare!
First, they didn’t appear at all. Tried their solution for that. (wp-footer) No good.
Tried inserting javascript directly. No good.
Traced problem to “mod_rewrite” rules used by supercache.
Removed rules (not used anyway), and NONE of my post links work 🙁
Reset permalinks settings, (-> default, then -> custom) which rewrites the htaccess file, and we’re up.
.. and we have tweetmeme buttons. Excellent!


Byq292u
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WordPress/Tweetmeme

Installed tweetmeme buttons on one of my sites.
Bit of a nightmare!
First, they didn’t appear at all. Tried their solution for that. (wp-footer) No good.
Tried inserting javascript directly. No good.
Traced problem to “mod_rewrite” rules used by supercache.
Removed rules (not used anyway), and NONE of my post links work 🙁
Reset permalinks settings, (-> default, then -> custom) which rewrites the htaccess file, and we’re up.
.. and we have tweetmeme buttons. Excellent!


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