Turbocharged

In this tutorial, we’ll explore why having a blog/Web site that validates is important, and how to quickly get your Turbocharged/WordPress site in shape.

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If you have a Web site, and it doesn’t have an icon, you can now generate it using Favicons!

Do you have a blog but hate writing online? If you do, you’re not alone. Let’s crack one of the secrets to producing more content in less time.

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I apologize for the glitch we experienced a few hours ago. As it turns out, the Markdown plugin requires a module named php-mbstring and I was forced to do several package upgrades in our servers.

Everything should be back to normal now.

(Dirty little secret: it’s not that Markdown requires that module. It’s that Markdown is supposed to cope with the lack of that module by implementing extra code on the fly, but there’s a bug that prevents the implementation from succeeding. This is the error message, but I haven’t been able to track the cause:

[client 200.63.232.131] PHP Fatal error: Non-static method Markdown_Parser::Markdown_UTF8_strlen() cannot be called statically in /var/www/turbocharged/components/wp-3rdparty-mashup-free/wp-content/plugins/markdown.php on line 1519, referer: http://turbochargedcms.com/page/1/

Here’s a quick tip for those of you who are planning to move your blog to a new Web host, a different address, or a different domain name. Of course, these instructions apply whether you’re using the vanilla WordPress, as well as for Turbocharged users. Read the rest of this entry »