Getting By With The Help Of My Twitter Friends
Twitter Friends To The Rescue
The past few days part of my feed was down. It was just driving me nuts. I had emailed feedburner about it but you know how long that probably will take to receive an answer? So I received a comment on my blog yesterday that confirmed a suspicion about plug-in issues I was having since the 3.2.2 upgrade.
I was going nuts over it!
To the rescue came my Twitter friends! Have I not mentioned before how I love Twitter? It’s just the place to be to meet people with the same interests and goals as yourself. It’s a quick and easy way to have conversations, fix problems, share and have some fun along the way.
@lisapatb I set up a new account on feedburner, attached to a new gmail account, that’s set up to forward anything to my ‘original’ cont
— Jan Bierens (@JanBierens) April 26, 2012
and from there it went to here with other Twitter friends to the rescue:
@lisapatb @janbierens @mayuradesilva they always say to backup and deactivate plug insbefore upgrade. Maybe its a bad plug in?
— Bren(@PibblesNMe) April 26, 2012
And after many more discussions and an hour of time, BINGO – the issue was found!
@lisapatb Click on Feed Title > Publicize > Password Protector. Is it active? If it’s active, it might be the problem.
— Mayura De Silva (@MayuraDeSilva) April 27, 2012
You can subscribe to my feed anyway you like.
So what were all the issues that you can learn from my mistakes?
- Before you update a new upgrade on WordPress – Back up everything with the export button (you should do this all the time) It’s easy
- Before you update that new upgrade – de-activate your plug-ins and -re-activate after the upgrade
- Test everything after the upgrade – some plug-ins may not work and you may need different ones
- Different themes will work differently with the upgrades – not all themes are made the same
- Feedburner – make sure your publicize button is turned on – something so simple but yet makes a big difference
- Keep a copy handy of your feedburner URL and name so you don’t have to keep going back and forth (like I had)
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Nice tips Lisa
Glad you write it out right after the incident. You are superb. Learning from the things you have been through, gratitude and sharing it with your readers generously. So no one of your readers don’t wanna mess up with all those stuff when upgrading to new version.
Twitter Rescue Team is always with you
Cheers…
I love that one Twitter Rescue Team – I want to start a Twitter chat soon and that could by our hashtag. I’m sure you’d be on that one Mayura. Yes, I find it best to write about something soon after before there is another situation that needs attention. Thanks again.
Wow… I’m lookin’ forward to Twitter chat
Here you always doing a great job. I mean it 
Cheers…
Thanks Mayura, I have to think of a date I can do it. 30-60 minute chat.
I hope I’m able to comment today Lisa. I stopped by earlier this week and I continued to receive a message that I hadn’t checked the “spam” box. You don’t have one so I couldn’t figure out how to get around that. Anyway…
I’m so sorry you had this problem but I’m so glad your connections on Twitter were able to help you. I do have a question for you.
You said to make sure your publicize button is turned on in Feedburner. Where the heck do you find that? I guess I’m saying it must not be turned on since I can’t seem to locate it anywhere.
Appreciate your help now and enjoy the rest of your day.
~Adrienne
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Interesting Adrienne, I have more technical things to take off. Thanks for telling me. It’s right on the Feedburner account – under publicize – password protector. I had it on, should be OFF. Mayura figured that one out over on Twitter. He’s an awesome techie and always helps out.
You proved yet again Lisa how Twitter really is a social site that can be very helpful
I have turned to Twitter to get ideas, suggestions and as you did, get problems solved! So I agree, Twitter is certainly a positive platform for that sort of thing.
As for your feed, I hope you did get it worked out. I know mine has gone off and on but I schedule so many tweets now, the feed is just extra good stuff on top! We will see you over on Twitter
Yes, I do love Twitter and the friends there figured it out. I will definitely see you over on Twitter Lynn. Thanks for coming by!
Hi Lisa
I am glad that Twitter came to your rescue, it can be great for solving those problems that crop up
I have read today on another blog and now here that we should de-activate plugins when upgrading, I did not know that so thanks for the tip!
Hope you have a great weekend
Pauline
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Glad you can learn from my mistakes Pauline – I just go for it and then learn
Have a great weekend too.
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Glad you got it fixed. Those plugins tend to be the issue. Some don’t like to play nice together but you just never know which one’s they are. Frustrating for sure.
Thank you Val! Twitter has been a lifesaver for me for than once. Or rather the great peeps on Twitter
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yep, that last update was a stinker. didn’t have any feed problems luckily. this explains why i haven’t been tweeting your posts lately (i have you posts set to auto tweet from your rss feed and silly me just thought you weren’t posting)
Great tips Lisa. I did my upgrade and had problems with my Pinterest button. I have to add that back because it was preventing a post from posting for some odd reason. I am glad you got that fixed. We are here for you girl!
Gee I haven’t checked mine out for Pinterest here yet Sonia, one more thing to add to the list. Glad you mentioned it. Thanks!