I’m working on my Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress and, for whatever reason, if I use a URL shortening service for the links, they won’t appear under Google Reader. The post appears in the news feed, but refuses to appear in Google Reader.

A Google doesn’t report anyone else having this problem but, literally, as soon as I turn off the shortening service, it works again.

Anyone? Anyone?

Next Day Update

You know, it gets weirder. As soon as I swapped the shortening service from TinyURL to is.gd, it appeared to work. No idea why. I’ll dig more.

Since launching my Simple AdSense Insert plugin yesterday, I’ve had a query with regard to the parameters.

The user came to supply the parameters to the plugin and found that one of them – google_ad_slot – didn’t exist in the AdSense code.

After some digging, it turns out that is because Google changed the code format sometime before late 2007. If you’re using code from before then, it more than likely won’t have the ad_slot parameter. If this is the case, you simply need to go back into AdSense and recreate your advert (or, if you had it saved, simply bring it back up again) and get the new code.

A great tip that I read today is that you can search for specific sizes of images in Google. This would have been ideal a few days ago when I was looking for a feed icon of a certain size.

Basically, you add imagesize:1x2 to the beginning of your search, where 1x2 is the width and height of the image that you require.

Better still, here’s an example of exactly what I wanted the other day.