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guardian-nav

It used to contain my test of the Guardian news feed WordPress plugin.

De-​​​​activating the plugin disables all the articles con­nected to it, as shown here, changes the title of your post, removes the tags, all the content (not just the feed content, but whatever you had to say about it, too) and the

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What to do about Old Posts?

Your old stuff — the stuff you wrote before, even your best stuff — mostly turns bad. It always did, but the Internet remem­bers. The churl.

Most people don’t bother about it. I, however, am foolish.

I’ve recently started using the Broken Links Checker plugin on this site. It finds the articles and sites

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My WordPress Plugin List

I claim no expertise, but I have tried and tested a lot of WordPress plugins on this blog and the fol­lowing remain on my ‘essen­tial /​​ must-​​​​install’ list. I have provided links to each of the plugins, so you can find out more. But if you want to try them on your own site, it is far better

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Mobile Internet Users: The Silent Minority

I’ve just installed the WordPress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-​​​​ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-​​​​the-​​​​fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want to

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Everyone a Re-PublisherEveryone a Re-​​Publisher

I’ve produced an exper­i­mental social media news page using Feedly Mixes. You can embed this sort of thing into any site you like.

As you can see, it grabs and mixes up the content from selected RSS feeds – a list of sites covering the subject, as chosen by me. It then ranks the

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WordPress Out-​​of-​​Memory Fix

I’ve been making some changes to this site recently: upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, choosing a new theme and fiddling with the layout.

One thing I dis­covered is that, unless you’re running a very minimal install­a­tion, it’s quite easy to run out of memory, even with only a handful of plug-​​​​ins. Versions of the software

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