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WordPress Media RSS Plugin

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This little plugin has an incredibly important and powerful feature. What it does is allow the media, and by that I mean video, audio and images, to be included in your RSS feed.  The reason it is needed is because the RSS feeds should have media coded or tagged in a particular way so that they work in the required manner for the feed and this plugin meets that requirement, making your feed more complete and bypassing “broken” information when it arrives in subscribers inbox or RSS readers.

This feature will (as far as I know) become standard in the wordpress core system in the future but until that time this plugin will manage the issue and resolve it so until then use it!

Simple to install it also has a range of customisable features that do require some coding knowledge to implement but it is not essential to make the plugin function. Upload, install it and activate and your done.

Author: Andy Skelton

Downalod the MediaRSS plugin for WordPress.

WordPress Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin

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On your blog (and more and more websites) you will likely encounter an RSS (Really simple Syndication) feed.  Even today, there are in reality, very few people who understand or even use this feature effectively so I thought it best to fill you in right now on why its so cool for website visitors. The most popular RSS tool is `probably Feedburner (now owned by Google) so you will need to have setup your feed there in advance.

On a visitor level, the RSS feed means one thing. Access to information automatically.  When you visit a site you will no doubt encounter the RSS logo, which is typically an orange coloured square or round cornered box with a white dot and three concentric circular lines radiating out from it to the right.

When you click this icon you will be (typically but not necessarily) be presented with a screen like this with a range of options.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/justinparks

You can from here subscribe via RSS and if available subscribe via email if the option exists.  You can also “feed” the RSS into an aggregator  or RSS reader if you have one setup. Once subscribed you will from that point on receive the latest news and updates automatically to the destination as soon as they are posted or scheduled by the poster for delivery.

RSS feed with feeburner

Once you set it up (use your gmail account and hit this page: http://feedburner.google.com/ to burn the feed) you can now (finally) activate the FeedBurner Feedsmith Plugin in the WordPress admin and go to the settings page.  Drop the RSS feed address into first line as requested and your all good to go!

You will notice the comments on your blog also have an RSS feed and this is dependant on your theme and if you are using DisQus, so decide accordingly.

Author: Google

Download the FD Feedburner Plugin.

WordPress Debug Queries plugin

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This debug plugin is not for the average user in any sense of the word.**Advanced Users only**

The plugin is perfect for WordPress developers, WordPress Plugin and theme developers as well as site administrators exclusively. They use the debugging tool in the test stages to maximise the speed and efficiency of their work, helping the blog load faster (hopefully) and reducing errors when it is finally released. Not for the untrained, and definitely not for the average user, it’s still important to be aware that it exists ifyou decide to contract any of the services mentioned from a third party in the future .

Author: Frank Bültge

Download the Debug-Queries plugin.