Although WordPress 2.7 was released some time ago, a lot of people are just now getting around to upgrading their blogs with the latest version of the popular platform.  Now that people are doing this, I am started to get asked questions about why things don’t work or look the same.  One that has come up multiple times recently has to do with links in the comment section fo a post.  After a 2.7 upgrade, many users are noticing that when a person leaves a comment, their URL link in that persons name goes to their URL but with the addition of some garbled mess that looks like “%20%20do-not-follow”, landing you on a “401 page not found” link.  The solution to fix this is pretty simple.

Every person that asked me about this, upon further investigation, was using the Google Analyticator plugin, which tracks site traffic with Google Analytics.  Older version of the plugin didn’t work so well with 2.7, but fortunately there is an update.  If you are experiencing this problem, go to the Google Analyticator page, download the newest version of the plugin (2.3 as of this writing) and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory.  Problem solved!

I just installed a WordPress plugin that I’m pretty excited about, TweetSuite.  Dan Zarrella announced its release this morning, and I quickly installed it.  If you are a WordPress blogger and use Twitter, I think this is a mandatory install for you because it does several important things.

• A “Tweet This” button is placed at the beginning of your post, much like the “Digg This” buttons that are so popular
• A list of Tweetbacks (mentions and links on Twitter) at the bottom of the post, which act like track backs from other blogs
• Inclusion of several optional widgets, like “Recently Tweeted” and “My Favorited Tweets”
• Option to send notification to Twitter with the publishing of a new post
• Completely self-sufficient code.  It doesn’t pass thru the author’s server or use Javascripts, so it should be pretty stable

This is one of the more exciting plugins that I’ve seen developed in a long time, and it integrated seamlessly with my WP 2.7 install.  Go download it for yourself and give it a try!  I would love to hear what you think about it.