You may find lower image resolution in the Opera 10 or newer version. First time i thought its just image loading issue and will fix over time but this was not the case. Opera introduced new feature that increase browsing speed significantly and gives you faster browsing experience. This technology called “Opera Turbo” by Opera Community. According to Opera, Opera Turbo is server-side optimization and compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections by compressing network traffic. You have several advantage of this feature but some people may find this feature annoying because Opera Turbo decrease image quality and you may not see actual image on the website. But it play significant role when you don’t bother about images and love to read content or browsing on low bandwidth connection.

Advantage

• Decrease your net bill if you  are on pay per usage plan
• Faster browsing experience by compressing images and server side optimization

Opera proxy server do not handle secure connection. SSL connection completely bypass to protect user privacy.

How to Fix

Follow steps below to turn off opera turbo mode

• Click on bottom left turbo icon and select Configure Opera Turbo
• Select Turn off turbo and click on to implement change.
  
• Now refresh page. Image should load properly after disabling turbo mode. You can also choose automatic mode that allow opera to determine where to on/off turbo mode depend on network.

Word Press have missed schedule issue from 2.7 version onwards. Word Press post scheduling was working fine upto   2.6.5 version as many of users reported on web.  You can schedule wordpress post to publish on a specified time. but when time comes post can not publish and shows missed schedule in the admin area.  According to WP guys, this is not the issue that Word Press guys can fix. This issue comes when your web server can not properly execute wp-cron process.  New wordpress wp-cron method run wp-cron in separate process that rely on web server configuration. Everytime Word Press loads it looks for wp-cron whether it should be run or not based on the time it was last run.

Here are some reason that prevent Word Press to run wp-cron correctly.

• Server doesn’t have DNS, and so it can’t figure out who “example.com” is, even though it is *itself*.
• Server administrators, in a misguided attempt at security, have blocked “loopback” requests, so it can’t actually make a call back to itself.
• Server is running something called “mod_security” or similar, which actively blocks the call due to brain-dead configuration.

There is simple to complex workaround to solve this issue. This problem automatically fix when your server is configured to run wp-cron properly but it require server root access and extensive server administration knowledge. So server configuration method is simply not for everyone to use. There is simple workaround to fix this issue that force wordpress to run wp-cron using alternative method that does not rely on web server configuration. To fix the issue add below line in the wp-config.php file. This line can be add anywhere in the wp-config.php file.

define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true);

This should restore wordpress schedule functionality.

Facebook introduced new facebook share count button that allow bloggers and website owners to add Facebook connect button with share count button easily.  This new button tool track your content on Facebook better. If you are running wordpress then you can add this button easily on WordPress blog using WordPress Facebook Share Count plugin. Wordpress plugin provides detailed tracked data of shares in the admin area such as Share Counts, Like Counts, Comment Counts and Click Counts. You will have complete control over appearance and placement of the button through its admin interface. You can choose type of  Share button you would like to display, and location of the button.

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I recently encounter this issue on my client wordpress mu blog.  When i open main blog page after installation an infinite loop occur and stop at dead end in Firefox. I searched a lot about this on wordpress forum. Surprising, issue is stated everywhere in the forums and blog but no solution was suggested.

Why Redirect Loop?

The issue arise because database was not created during wordpress installation but word press config file was written. WordPress uses wp-config.php file to store database configuration.  If WordPress find this file in the  installation directory then no further installation procedure begin. WordPress now look at DB to load default blog but there is no table in the database. Again, control goes to install procedure but WordPress understand blog already installed because WordPress config file is present in root folder. Once again WordPress try to load blog from database and redirect loop occur.  I hope WordPress guys will fix this in future releases.

The Fix

The fix is very simple. Simply, rename or delete WordPress config file and re-install wordpress mu.  Make sure database user you are using during installation have sufficient permission to create and manipulate database tables.

Today, i  discovered that my blog feed was showing error in Firefox and other browsers.  This error comes if white space of empty line at the start of xml feed content. Your xml feed content should start with xml declaration without white space or empty line. Blank lines or white space can be introduced by theme code, plugins, wordpress code or wordpress configuration file. A quick fix is check files you have recently edited.

How to Fix

• Deactivate all plug-ins loaded and activate plug-in one by one to catch exact plug-in creating problem.
• Try disabling wordpress cache plug-ins. Wordpress cache plugin don’t work well with some hosting.
• Check your theme files, wp-config.php file for blank lines. It is hard and time consuming to check all wordpress core files. Thanks yo fiyaga for usefull wordpress plugin “Fix RSS Feed” that automatically detect blank or white space in the wordpress core files.
• Make sure to ping your feed in feedburner or similar service you are using.

Wordpress announced new Wordpress.TV where you can find all wordpress resources in audio visual form. You can find all WordCamp video, slideshows of presentation created by wordpress team and other wordpress experts, and interviews with media and fellow bloggers.

Wordpress.TV included several handy how-to tutorial video and more be in pipeline in future. You can request to add an audio visual resource if you find should be added on wordpress.tv.? I can also request if something missing and should be on site for wordpress community. Below is introductory video showing brief overview of the site.

Just launched Unix Timestamp Conversion Tool. All of users of my website are welcome to test and use this tool. Please feel free to share your comments, bugs etc..

PHP Source Code Highlighter (syntaxhighlighter) Wordpress plugin allow you to post php code inside your wordpress post with syntax highlight and line number. The plugin preserve code formatting and do not encode character until you do manually.

Supports the following languages:

* C++ — `cpp`, `c`, `c++`
* C# — `c#`, `c-sharp`, `csharp`
* CSS — `css`
* Delphi — `delphi`, `pascal`
* Java — `java`
* JavaScript — `js`, `jscript`, `javascript`
* PHP — `php`
* Python — `py`, `python`
* Ruby — `rb`, `ruby`, `rails`, `ror`
* SQL — `sql`
* VB — `vb`, `vb.net`
* XML/HTML — `xml`, `html`, `xhtml`, `xslt`

How to Use Wordpress Syntax/Source Code Highlight Plugin

This plugin do not add any button in the editor to wrap code automatically. Hope this feature will be added soon. You need to wrap you code within </strong>add your php code here <strong>[/source code] tag.

Download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/syntaxhighlighter.zip
Live Demo/Screenshot: http://www.bala-krishna.com/how-to-clean-special-characters-from-php-string

WordPress 2.6 Beta1 has been released for public. This version is sheduled to release in the middle of July. It has some new features.

• Exciting Post Revisioning added to keep track of all your post history. You are now protected from accidental changes.
• Added ability to change wordpress content directory location.
• wp-config.php now can be move on out of your web root folder.
• Ability to disable remote publishing.
• Built-in word counting in the wordpress post editor.
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins.
• Check box range selection with shift-click.
• Integrated TinyMCE 3.1.0.1, jQuery 1.2.6, jQuery UI 1.5 for better performance.
• Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
• Improved Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• Improved image editing dialog with newly added image customization features.
• Google Gears implemented for static file caching
• SSL support for the Admin Panel

If you download from RapidShare frequently then this post might be useful for you. This plugin is very useful Firefox plugin that can be used to detect Rapidshare Happy Hour all time. The Rapidshare Happy Hours plugin is compaitable with FF3.0. It is helpful for users those who use free account on RapidShare. Plugin notify you with the popup box whenever HappyHours available.

Download Location: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7353