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Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

If you are trying to use your wordpress feed as your sitemap in google webmaster tools, and it looks like there are errors in lines 11 and 12 citing Invalid URL, Invalid XML: too many tags, and Incorrect namespace, it is because you are using your rss2 feed as the sitemap.
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Changed URL of blog

Tuesday, 20th May 2008 by vftw-sa

Moved the blog from http://blog.vftw.com subdomain to the main domain. The main domain just had a gatway page, which wasn’t doing my already non-existent search position any favours.

It went relatively smooth, but took a while to change some of the URLs. A general web development tip, that often gets overlooked when blogging I guess: Use relative URLs for you links. It would save a lot of mundane work.

When I was looking for a way to highlight the author comments in this wordpress template I was creating, I had a search on google. Most of the results were Read the rest of this article »

Wordpress Template Quirks

Thursday, 7th February 2008 by Musaul Karim

If you edit any of the wordpress system files or even just the functions.php of a template, make sure there are no spaces before the <?php or after the ?>.

If you do, it’ll just cause you grief. Some pages will be visible while others will have the following error:

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent

I guess it happens because functions.php is included before it sets the http headers. I haven’t looked at the code enough to figure out where the header is written, so no leading or trailing spaces in wordpress system php files!