Twitter Application suspension notice

I’ve updated WordPress Twitter tools Plugin to use Twitter’s new Authentication system.

Out of nowhere I received following account suspension notice.

This is a notice that your OAuth token for .. has been suspended from interacting with the Twitter API.

Please make sure that your application follows Twitter’s API Terms of Service

To request for your token to be re-enabled, please write to api@twitter.com

Twitter Support

Please do not reply to this message; it was sent from an unmonitored email address. This message is a service email related to your use of Twitter. For general inquiries or to request support with your Twitter account, please visit us at Twitter Support.

Still investigating on this issue.

McAfee Site Advisor

I launched a new website based on WordPress. McAfee was showing RED alert for this domain because this site is new and it was not verified. When I tried to verify the ownership of this wordpress powered blog McAfee site verification showed following error.

Posting Web Site Owner Comments
Error Submitting Site for Verification
It appears that the Web site is returning an HTTP 2xx or 3xx status response code in the header of 404 pages

This is a typical error shown by McAfee Site Advisor when you try to verify the ownership of any WordPress based blog. It’s a bug in McAfee Site Advisor system which remains unfixed.

The solution to this problem is simple.

1) Rename the .htaccess file

2) Submit the verification again

3) Get the file name provided by McAfee Site Advisor and upload it in the root of your site.

4) Bring back the .htaccess file.

Smile :)

Wordpress - An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request

Very strange, while installing new plugins I saw following error in the Plugin page in the WordPress Admin on following page

/wp-admin/plugin-install.php

An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.

I’ve to dog down further to find out what could be the problem. From the error it is obvious that it is a timeout issues. The website and internet connection seems to be slow today (Sunday).

BT broadband sucks during the weekends, they come to dead slow quite often.

In the earlier versions before 3.0 the solution was to increase the timeout value in http.php file. However I can’t find this piece of code in wordpress 3.0.1.

Solution yet to be found…

Just to update those who have tuned to this post…

This was a timeout issues as it is clear from the error. May be server was hibernating or Internet connection was slow.

This error doesn’t appear anymore.

So guys I’m not going to investigate into it anymore.

If you still can’t find a solution then try to change the timeout value as explained elsewhere and see if it solves.

If not then switch to a dedicated server, shared hosting always sucks….

Unfortunately I host my own blog on such a sucker host ;) may be sometimes later I’ll swith host.

BuddyPress Admin Bar

In BuddyPress you will see a top navigation bar which is enabled by default.

This might be annoying for some. Some plugins also need this to be disabled. You can disable it appearing everywhere by following method.

Step 1: Open wp-config.php file which is in the root folder of your BuddyPress installation.

Step 2: Add following line in the file
define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );

You can see it live in action (admin bar disabled) on Movie Reviews portal.

If you were in the process of buying something, or sending money to family or friends, we recommend you check both your PayPal account and your email inbox for a transaction confirmation after 30 minutes.

If you came to this page from another website, you may want to return to that site (we advise that you don’t just use your browser’s back button) and restart your activity.

If you stumbled upon this page from the PayPal website, simply click the PayPal logo in the top left corner to return to the UK home page and restart your activity. You might have to log in again.

If you wish to sign up to PayPal, please click the PayPal logo and then click the “Sign up” button.

Above is one of the most frequently occurring error on paypal.

It happens during a transaction and sometimes even after the transacton.

No one knows why it happens.

However there is a solution.

When you see above error in a browser, start another browser and try to login into paypal there.

If it still doesn’t solve the problem then clean browser cache and retry.

Today, out of nowehere, I start seeing the following error on one of my blogs.

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /wp-content/plugins/digg-digg/dd.class.php on line 693

Warning: file_get_contents(http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/urlinfo/data?url=.. [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in ../wp-content/plugins/digg-digg/dd.class.php on line 693

This blog is hosted on 1&1 web hosting.

Digg Digg plugin works fine on rest of my hosts which are hosted on dedicated servers, Bluehost, Hostgator etc.

It was quite strange.

The error clearly says that Host doesn’t allow remote connection? Weired.

Which means fopen is not turned on? That is certainly not the case as I’ve been using 1&1 since ages and in many other plugins and applications fopen works.

Next solution was to turn on allow_url_fopen in php.ini

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Which is already On.

So what could be the problem now?

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There is not much new in Bing. “Bing is a new chassis with same old engine”. What Microsoft did was to give it a new name, new face and decorate it with some interesting thing to make it look like new “stuff” and they topped it up with publicity to push it as a new search engine.

The presentation is attractive, well much more attractive than Google’s simple (boring) look.

I like the way they display the background image and stuff in some interesting facts at various spot.

The footer also displays some interesting articles from wiki.

However all of above are kind of distraction for searchers. Whenever I go to search for something I get deviated by other links. No wonder why Google still enjoys the No.1 position because of the most simple fact that it is just Search Engine.

I wish Bing was just as Google – Search Engine. However Microsoft never gives up in stuffing in as much elements of their network as possible in almost all of their services and which ultimately becomes a flop show.

Search Results

It seems more or less Bing displays the same result as Google. A search for my own name Ajay Kumar Singh on Bing shows this blog as No. 1, same as it shows on Google.

Bing favors its own community and if you have signed up in community then it might shows up details from there as well. I’m signed up for Community and it shows my profile page in the first page for my name search.

Bing’s country specific search is not so relevant and not as good as Google’s one. I searched for keyword SEO to display searches from UK only and couldn’t find my business website in top 10 where as it is on top 10 on Google for UK search results.

New Features

Bing has added some of new features. For instance on the right side of title you can see the latest posts from the blog.

What lacks

Bing doesn’t allow to display more than 10 results per page until and unless you login and change the it from the account settings. in Google you can exactly change it to display up to 100 results per page without logging into account. I use this feature quite heavily for my SEO work and I wish Bing could also provide this feature.

Domain name search doesn’t work. For instance if you type swamiseo.co.uk it will not display any result and it would rather suggest swamiseo keyword. In Google you would see the pages which link to swamiseo.co.uk

Country specific searches

Bing simply doesn’t show relevant result in country specific searches. Well it is still in Beta so we can’t expect all the features in it. Lets see when it builds up enough capability to show localized searches.

Image Searches

Image search in Bing is not as improved as it is in Google. Bing displays Image search results in iframe which is nuisance. It also doesn’t show the source of image until and unless you hover over the image.

Image results in Google are much better, simplified and display relevant information.

It seems bing image indexing is not sophisticated enough to build up a large database of images. Bing displays images from well known and big websites rather than well optimized small websites.

What is Good

Ever wonder why Google shows wiki in the top of search result for any keyword which has got an entry in Wiki? It is just sheer insanity.

Let me explain with an example. Visit Google.co.in and enter keyword Laptop and see the result. Google displays news items (useless) followed by Wiki (another useless result). When someone types keyword Laptop he is not interested in Google News or in Wiki, all he wants is to find out the latest laptops and probably to buy it.

Google loves Wiki.

Bing doesn’t love wiki so it doesn’t show up all the time.

Bing has to improve the search result display a lot to match with Google’s search. It shows Wiki which is completely irrelevant for the searched keyword.