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Notes for 2009-09-07

Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Krishnan.

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One more method of writing math equations in wordpress – But not elegant. http://bit.ly/3G1QSt #
Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge http://bit.ly/ThlbY #
#Chandrayaan-I failure was caused by miscalculation of temperature – http://bit.ly/sv87i #

How to: Use TGFI.net SEO plugin

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Krishnan.

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This is a sample post created after the installation of TGFI SEO plugin.

This sample post should help me verify if I’m able to configure meta data at an individual post level.

What this means is, after this posting this, if I access this post through its permalink and view the html source I should see some meta data for this post.

This plug-in sure doesn’t sound like big deal to me, because I am required to use the wordpress dashboard instead of a blog client. TGFI SEO plugin will give you yet another form just below the editor on which we can fill in the post level meta data for SEO.

One thing that must be done for the plugin to work is from the FAQ:

Q: The titles aren’t showing up for me, or seem to be partially working. What’s wrong?

A: Make you you have <?php wp_head(); ?> in your header.php file between your HTML <head> tags.

I hope it is worth the effort.

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Solution to WordPress MU xmlrpc bug

Posted on 02. Aug, 2009 by Krishnan.

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If you are reading this, you probably landed here looking for a fix that will help you use a desktop client on WP-MU. Well, you are not alone.

My previous post on using Scribefire on WP-MU, certainly was not the most elegant way of solving the xmlrpc problem, but it worked then. When I upgraded to Firefox 3.5.1 and Scribefire 3.4.1, the fix stopped working. I was busy at work and could not sit down to study the problem, so I simply stopped posting to the other blogs I really want to write.

Thankfully, this weekend I could fix the problem. I know now that a fix was available since April ’09, but it perhaps took so long to show up in google or it was just my clumsy googling. Daniel Llewellyn has written this small piece of code which solves this problem elegantly.

To solve the problem (xmlrpc bug) so that you use desktop clients on WP-MU do the following:
1. Download the text file with Daniel’s code
2. Rename the text file as wpmublogger-getusersblogs.php
3. Upload the php file to your WP-MU installation to the mu-plugins folder under the wp-content folder.

Thats it and now you’re now ready to go. When I tested, Scribefire 3.4.1 detected all 7 blogs that were configured to a particular user account.

Thank you, Daniel, for sharing the trick. One small piece of code that solves a bug bothering so many WP-MU users.