Bah! WordPress 2.5.1 RSS Bug!

Posted on 13. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.

However, each time I upgrade I end up spending an hour trying to fix the bugs that make Wordpress work EXACTLY the way I wanted it to work BEFORE I upgraded! … If you go to my original feed at www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php you will see that the feed reports ZERO posts on my blog despite all my posts! … So this is what I had to do to get back online: Disable the FeedSmith plugin Edit my RSS source in Feedburner from www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php to www.brianwong.com/blog/feed So the next time Wordpress comes up with the message ” “there’s a new version of Wordpress, please update!”

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Using Aweber to Broadcast Your Blog Posts

Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.

But instead of using Feedburner’s email subscribe function to allow my blog readers to have my posts delivered via email, I use Aweber’s Blog Broadcast feature instead.

… A lot of people have asked how and why I use Aweber to publish my RSS Feed for my blog.

…With Feedburner, you can only set the time to send the email broadcast and sometimes the email is sent if you accidentally publish a post.

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