The setup
When a new article is written, wordpress will update the blog RSS and this feed always contains the latest contents of your blog. For this blog, that’s davidtan.org/feeds.
Some people uses feedburner to publish and track where their feeds are viewed, clicked and consumed. Plus, there’s also a setting in feedburner that will sync new posts to your twitter account as well (ex. @davidtanth). You can also subscribe to your blog’s feed in Google Reader to keep track of your own blogs.
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Redirecting traffic from one URL to another is a common task among webmaster. It’s usually done so when old pages are renamed/moved and you want to redirect people to the new page instead of letting them get a 404 no page found error. Affiliate marketers also do this intentionally to cloak their links and redirect users to the real link which hold their tracking id or affiliate credentials.
Make sure you read this if you run a wordpress blog. Never leave your .htaccess file permission at 777.
I found the EXEC PHP wordpress plguin while trying to figure out how to execute PHP code inside a wordpress post and page. It works, but do note that you’ll need to make a few settings changes so that your php code will be recognized as php tags and executed.