XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity – WordPress 3.1.2

By Shivam Vaid On May 17, 2011 Leave a Comment    245 views
RSS Feed Error

After my upgrade to WordPress 3.1.2, I wrote a couple of new posts. However, I discovered that none of those posts got  automatically tweeted. The tweeting of my posts happens through feed burner socialize. I was wondering what could be the issue. Then it stuck me whether the feed of the blog was getting generated correctly at all. To my horror, I discovered that the feed was throwing up an error because of which neither was the feed getting generated nor the tweet for the new post happening correctly. The….. Read More

Is The Average Internet Blog Visitor Dumb?

By Shivam Vaid On November 25, 2010 2 Comments    42 views

Before I start with my thoughts on the topic – please note that the title is not intended to offend anyone. It is in fact a realization that sometimes you assume a few things about your blog reader or take visitor behavior/knowledge for granted which may not be entirely true in reality. This realization clicked when the other day I was reading a post on hot blog areas @ BlogTyrant – where a discussion was happening on which areas should one focus on his blog so that maximum visitor attention….. Read More

Disqus Comments WordPress Plugin: Problem In RSS Feed

By Shivam Vaid On August 18, 2010 1 Comment    283 views
Disqus

Disqus is a comment management system that can be used for your wordpress blog. It aims to help you manage any comments based discussions on your blog and enable a seamless integration with social media. To further elaborate, a typical wordpress comments section would ask for a user name user email user website url and comment text that the user wants to make Entering all this information might feel tedious and cumbersome. Lets assume that majority of the website visitors would be active users on twitter and facebook. Disqus enables….. Read More

Google FeedBurner Socialize : A TwitterFeed Alternative

By Shivam Vaid On August 2, 2010 3 Comments    1,033 views
TwitterFeed Inficone

I had been using the twitterfeed service for sending updates about my blog postings to twitter. The service had been working well for about 6 months now. However, I had been facing a few problems where occasionally I was finding the some posts were getting skipped while others never got published on to my twitter account. So first I checked my settings on twitterfeed and suspected that possibly the reason for failure was one of the settings. Essentially I had told twitterfeed to scan feeds every one hour and update….. Read More