… if you encounter this or a similar problem the easiest solution is to validate your feed.

To validate your RSS feed, simply go to http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=

Enter your Feed URL and hit enter. Now you know if the feed is valid or not. Most likely it is not. Write down the error line and find out what entry is causing the error. When you found the post you should remove any signs that might cause problems. In my case I had to remove the “&-sign”. Because HTML hex-codes normally start with the “&”-sign they are causing some problems sometimes.

Well, sometimes you might feel like writing your posts in Word until you realize that copying from Word to Wordpress doesn’t work very well.

What to do then? Well, it’s tricky, but I have found not just one, but several solutions. Some solutions are good for short posts without much formatting, others work better for long posts, ebooks or articles.

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Yesterday, I suddenly noticed that one of my wordpress blogs was hacked. How did I notice it? My permalinks were changed and at the end of every link there was a code line attached it.

Actually it looked a bit strange, but I was in a hurry and quickly changed my permalinks and did not think about taking a screenshot at that moment.

So, what was my emergency plan?

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Before you move a wordpress blog to a new host you should prepare a few things.

First of all make a backup of your database. Next you should copy your complete site to the new host or directory. Once it’s there make sure you got no 403 forbidden error. If you do read the previous post.

When everything is set, you should now open that “general” settings page in your wordpress admin panel and add the new domain names (don’t save yet). Also open the .htaccess file of your old site and add the following:

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?olddomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Now, quickly save both the wordpress admin page and your htaccess file. I can do both in less than 5 seconds, so you can do it too.

If you are *not* using permalinks you also got to run this SQL query:

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com','http://www.new-domain.com');

Did you link internally? Yes? Good! It’s good for seo to do interlinking to your important sites. To update your posts run this query too:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

Voilà, you now moved your wordpress blog to a new domain!

Are you looking for a plugin that can do this job? Then you came to the right place.
Wordpress is mainly a blogging platform, however it is very common to use Wordpress as a CMS. As of right now, Wordpress does not include the option to reorder categories, pages or posts. This is usually one of the basics of a CMS and it is needed in many situations.

Here are three plugins that extend Wordpress functionality and allow you to reorder links, categories and pages:

My Link Order

My Category Order

My Page Order

Cheers!

Here’s the fix:

Simply replace your old logout link with:

<?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?>

Yup that’s it. Wasn’t too difficult, eh?