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Easily move a Feedburner feed to another account

As a WordPress Website designer and support person I often work with Feedburner. Feedburner makes tracking feed subscriptions simple as well as adding some really cool functionality such as the ability to subscribe to feeds by email and even enabling pubsubhubbub. I enable Feedburner feed subscription for the default WordPress feed on most Sites I [...]

RSS and Atom Feed SEO

RSS/Atom feeds have become synonymous with Blogs; every major Blog software and service includes feeds by default. WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Joomla, Drupal, Tumblr and so on all have feed capabilities as a standard offering. Feeds were originally created to ‘push’ content to subscribers i.e. a person would choose to receive updates from a Website and [...]

How to Resolve the FeedReader ‘gds software consistency check’ Error

FeedReader, in my opinion, is the best RSS reader available (and it’s free). I have used it for many years without any problems at all … until recently; I encrypted my hard-drives and everything worked as expected except FeedReader. I was getting an error like ‘internal gds software consistency check (can`t continue after bugcheck)’. Image [...]

Has your WordPress Site been hacked?

Recently one of my Websites was hacked (not this Website!). The hackers had managed to populate the WordPress site posts (Blogs) with iframes that redirected visitors to a suspicious Website. It appears that a SQL script was run on every post to replace the contents of the posts with the redirecting iframe (WordPress and all [...]