One of my favourite plugins, is is not working properly. The blog is SLLLLLOW and a mess. I have been going nuts trying to weak it and figure out what is wrong.

I can;t get cahcing to wrk properly in WP-Super cache and I think this is one of the problems I am having. I found a site that had some great tips on troubleshooting WP-Super Cache, Quick Online Tips.
I have tried enabling and enabling compression.. nothing. Checking that htaccess file is written correctly- it is.
Problem must be with the cache folder on server itself.
Was a HUGE deal trying to delete the wp-content/advanced-cache.php file.

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I have written countless emails and made considerable posts about plugins on developer blogs with usually disappointing results. I don’t; expect much in the way of support I am pretty grateful when some one creates somethings and lets me use it for free and don;t like to make waves or do anything to curb the future efforts.

I was very pleasantly surprised this evening when the developer of WP-Spam Free, Scott Allen commented on a recent post I made about tracking down scripts and plugins that were slowing down my blog.
Here was Scott’s comment:

Hi Lisa, Sorry to hear you had a problem with WP-SpamFree. I really do wish you had contacted me first before posting this if you were having problems because I don’t think that’s an accurate diagnosis. If it’s slowing down your site then there is something else going on, possibly some kind of conflict. It’s actually engineered to be extremely lightweight and fast. Most other anti-spam plugins use much more server resource bandwidth. We’ve tested it on many different configurations and servers and it shouldn’t be slowing anything down. Please feel free to contact me if you’d like to try it out again and would like help diagnosing anything.

Scott is so smart on so many levels I don’t know where to begin. He has done everything right from a marketing an service perspective. He followed up on a quasi- negative post about his product/service QUICKLY and saw an opportunity to make it better.
In a world of “what can you do for me” mentality was refreshing to have someone contact me and say- “hey, what can I do to help you ?”
Scott did not whine.. he did not say hey – its your fault the plugin in didn’t work, he didn’t flame me for criticizing his plugin, he saw a way to address the issue and ameliorate the situation and create some synergy.

When I owned my own brick and mortar retail store, a floral design studio, I saw every customer service problem or customer complaint as an opportunity. If some one called to complain about dead flowers- not only would I resend the flowers AND refund the money with a smile and a no questions asked policy I would send a little bouquet with note of apology.
Every time someone walked in the store with a problem I would address it and exceed their expectations. Customers were almost universally caught off guard that it wasn’t a huge hassle and and they were SO grateful .. and walked out of my store with a smile on their face. They did not tell 10 friends about the dead flowers and awful my store was.. they did not walk by my store and remember that there last experience was negative.
When you EXCEED expectation you have given good customer service.
I am stunned by the crappy customer service we are shoveled daily by the stores around us- we are so used to we do not even question it any more.
Try and return something.. EVEN if you have a receipt some stores now hang on to your money by making you accept a gift card as a form of refund.

I have lots more to rant about but my vision is fading and I am giving my spell check a real workout tonight.

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My never ending saga of using Wordpress on my mobile phone is reaching desperate proportions! I hate Wordpress and I hate my phone right now. I cannot log into Wordpress 2.6 admin on my mobile browser.

I have gone through several plugins with no success- tho I did find some nice mobile phone and mobile browser plugins that work well with sites that have Wordpress 2.5 installed and make mobile integration with admin panel in WordPress easier.
To add to issues hard to test as no signal for phone where my PC is located. Never ending

I have tried WPhone with no luck- tho I like on my other non 2.6 blogs.
I am about to try PostMaster whihc looks very promising,. Not so promising is the “compatible to 2.5 ” warning, tho I will give this a shot. If it does what it says it will do it is perfect.

Posting text, photos and videos from your phone has never been easier! With PostMaster you can post via email with attachments. PostMaster embeds attached media into your post, so no more boring text-only posts from your phone!

PostMaster allows you to control the resizing of attached images. So, you can have thumbnail images created on the fly! You can also have the generated thumbnail link to the full-size image, automatically.

PostMaster gives you control over the categories you want your post to appear in. With the category assignment feature you can define the categories for your post from the subject line.

You can control how media is embedded in the post body by editing PostMaster templates. There is a template for each media type group (images, videos, etc).

Almost all phones and email services are supported.

I am hoping I can post from a web based account as sadly Samsung Instinct does not allow pop3 email.

Note: This did not solve problem of being able to access Wordpress 2.6 or newer with a mobile browser.

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A few minutes after i installed Wordpress 2.6 on one of my blogs I regretted it. There is no turning back despite my concerted efforts. I cannot log into any of my Wordpress blogs where I have installed Wordpress 2.6 or higher. The mobile browser just reverts back to admin log in screen over and over again. I also cannot comment.
I will see ig I can find some kind of workaround.

I refuse to pay the INSANE price for Iphone service. despite its rockin browser. The cost for iphone is not that bad- 199 but you pay an additionally 60.00 on top of your existing plan- and even that is not unlimited.
I pay 15.00 a month for my ENTIRE plan including unlimited browser and unlimited texts as part of our Family share plan. ( we have an old plan and DH pays 25.00 and I pay 15.00.

So… I upgraded so a Samsung Instinct this week- labeled as an Iphone killer ( its not) I have been disappointed more by what it can’t do than wowed by what it can.

The browser is so-so. The GPS is very slow and prone to dropping. You pay for everything. Live TV might be cool- but you have to pay 20.00 just for the ability ti access it. Same with Sirius Radio. Comes with no free games.
Battery life is not that great.
Kids like watching YouTube videos in the car and I like the vibrating haptic screen and Qwerty keyboard much more than iTouch /iPhone.
Load time to turn of is crazy slow. Camera is shitty. No flash and no zoom and no way to edit pics on the phone. At almost 500.00 I expected more.
My biggest disappointed bar none is the lack of POP3 mail. I can’t believe I am tethered to webmail or I can pay 8.00 a month to use yahoo account on this phone.
You can play mp4 videos and mp3s. Sound through mono speaker is terrible.
I am also FUMING that the mobile browser on this phone will not work with one of my busier blogs because its using Wordpress 2.6.
I wil persevere a while longer before I give up!

I have also tried other workarounds such as using a web based client like writemyblog.com and using image upload to Flickr with now luck. Ready to chuck phone out the window…

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