Archive for February, 2007

Getting more feedreader subscriptions

If you run a blog or something similar where people can subscribe to it in a feedreader, here’s a way to invite them to do that without sticking links or badges for every feedreader on the planet in your sidebar.
Add To Any helps you create a button or text link specific to your site.  When [...]

If you run a blog or something similar where people can subscribe to it in a feedreader, here’s a way to invite them to do that without sticking links or badges for every feedreader on the planet in your sidebar.

Add To Any helps you create a button or text link specific to your site.  When your readers click it, they go to the Add to Any page, which lets them choose any of several dozen feedreaders.  One click more, and your blog is added to their reader.  It’s nice and clean, and won’t slow your site down like some of the other options out there.  Plus, there’s no way you’ve missed anyone’s favorite feedreader.

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Copy and Paste between computers

Have you ever copied something to your computer’s clipboard, but then you need to dash off from that computer before you can paste what you copied where you wanted it?  Here’s an online copy and paste service that lets you save it online so you can access it later from any computer.
It could also come [...]

Have you ever copied something to your computer’s clipboard, but then you need to dash off from that computer before you can paste what you copied where you wanted it?  Here’s an online copy and paste service that lets you save it online so you can access it later from any computer.

It could also come in handy if you have tech problems and need to reboot your computer before you can use the program you want to paste into, but you’re still able to use your browser before restarting.

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WordPress 406 errors “Not acceptable…”

If you’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.1, you may encounter a 406 error when you try to post, edit posts, access options, etc. This has something to do with your host using mod_security, or something. A good 45 minutes of searching did not turn up an exact reason for this.
But it did turn [...]

If you’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.1, you may encounter a 406 error when you try to post, edit posts, access options, etc. This has something to do with your host using mod_security, or something. A good 45 minutes of searching did not turn up an exact reason for this.

But it did turn up a couple of workarounds. One involved turning the mod_security engine off completely, but that’s a bad idea because mod_security helps keep your files secure. Instead, you can turn it off just on those files that are acting up:

  1. Create an .htaccess file in your /wp-admin folder.
  2. Put the following in it:

<Files options.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

<Files post.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

<Files edit.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

<Files page.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

See how it works?  If you’re encountering the error when you try to “edit” files, you need to turn off security just on the wp-admin/edit.php file.  You can make more of these for other pages by simply putting the page name in place of “options.php” in the top example.

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Wordpress plugins for affiliate marketers

Here’s a slightly aged but very handy post from SuperAff listing some must-have WordPress plugins for affiliate marketers who use that blogging system.  With them, you can integrate affiliate links into posts easily, rotate text and banner ads, do some neat stuff with AdSense, and even feed an affiliate datafeed into your posts.  There’s also [...]

Here’s a slightly aged but very handy post from SuperAff listing some must-have WordPress plugins for affiliate marketers who use that blogging system.  With them, you can integrate affiliate links into posts easily, rotate text and banner ads, do some neat stuff with AdSense, and even feed an affiliate datafeed into your posts.  There’s also stuff in there for Bidvertiser, CafePress and Chitika.  Great list.

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