Now WordPress 2.5 RC1 is out it the wild for testing we are receiving some reports of strange problems with some of the ajax functionality in the admin pages so I have prepared a quick tutorial to help people collect the relevant debugging information to help us investigate the problems.

Here is how to prepare:

1. Install Firefox (if you don’t have it already!)
2. Install firebug. This is the web debugging tool of choice.
3. Load up the relevant WordPress admin page that is not working for you.

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I’m proud to announce that this site is now “living on the edge” - I finally found the time to write a Tag Importer for Bunny’s Technorati Tags which will hopefully make it into the final WordPress 2.3 release (if not the next Beta version).

Well it was about time to start running the my own code.

One of the new features that really sticks out after upgrade is the Plugin update notification - it lets you know when updates to plugins which are downloadable from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ are available and includes a link to the plugin entry for you to download the update.

ioerror has written a very good review of Windows Vista Beta 1 with a lot of good screen shots.

In his review he talks about the RSS feed support in IE7 beta 1:

One of the big things talked about in Internet Explorer 7 is its support for RSS feeds. Indeed, I found a couple already in the Favorites menu. So I decided to check out the IE Blog, and this is what I got. Obviously the RSS feed support still needs a lot of work, or at least a stylesheet. Hopefully this will develop further before release, or it will be pretty useless.

From: http://www.ioerror.us/2005/08/02/windows-vista-beta-1-review-and-screenshots-part-1/

In the screenshot he has on his site we see Internet Explorer displaying it’s standard pretty view of an XML file but not the nice view of the RSS we expected. I was suprised to see this as the test I had run of this feature against my sites RSS feed had worked ok as can be seen in the following screenshot.

Looking at the feed returned by the IE blog that ioerror tested with all looks well and so it seems that the detection algorithm is not quite perfected yet - you would have thought however that the IE team would have tested it against there own blog!