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Deactivating Wordpress plugin blanks the page

Yesterday, I wrote a plugin and uploaded it to my website. I activated it and it activated successfully. But when I deactivated it, the page turns blank. On returning to the Wordpress admin page, the plugin was successfully deactivated. I was also getting problems when I added custom field. The cause [...]

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Yoast's Google Analytics for Wordpress plugin and Thematic theme

If you are using Yoast’s Google Analytics for Wordpress plugin and a Thematic theme with a child theme, Yoast’s plugin might warn that the plugin might not work. Yoast advises to include wp_footer() in footer.php. Actually that is not necessary as the Thematic theme files already include it. It is a false warning [...]

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Add Custom Field – get An unidentified error has occurred

From the results I get from querying for ‘custom field unindentified error has occurred’, this is quite a common problem. I followed many wild goose chases from repairing the database to deactivating plugins. The solution is actually understanding that  a custom field is a field that you have to enter a value for. So [...]

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Good reason to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.2 ?

Sticky Posts! « WordPress.comRegular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or other static info at the top of your posts. This feature has existed as Sticky Topics in the forums, but hasn’t been available on blogs. Until now.This feature might be a good reason to upgrade to [...]

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After upgrade Wordpress, get xmlrpc invalid response error

  If anything has gone wrong the first thing to do is go through all the steps in our extended upgrade instructions. That page also has information about some of the most common problems we see. Upgrading WordPress « WordPress Codex I recently upgraded Wordpress manually following the instructions at Upgrading WordPress « WordPress [...]

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Wordpress 2.3 is SEO (search engine optimized)

All newbies who is looking for a good blog platform to start a blog, a marketable, searchable blog, go with Wordpress. In this interview with Matt Cutts, he said that Wordpress blogs are SEO. Step number three is smart marketing and that can involve good SEO. If you do everything on WordPress [...]

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wordpress xmlrpc 404 error

After a long lapse, I wanted to make a post to this blog again and got an XMLRPC 404 error. I was blogging with Windows Live Writer. It did not give problems earlier and I have not upgrade my Wordpress software. A quick search on Google pointed me to Simply Buzz. I tried [...]

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