Remember sometime back when I posted about why I had chosen to upgrade to CommentLuv Premium, then the amazing WordPress plugin was on sale for a limited time before it’s official launcg date, well, it’s now back on SALE!

ON SALE NOW AT A SPECIAL SALE PRICE! - Bonuses and low price until 30th Nov

CommentLuv Premium has become extremely popular since it’s original release and it’s beta testers and new owners of the MUST HAVE PLUGIN have loved it so much they just can’t help shouting about it to their fellow blogging friends.

Boosting Comments And Social Networing With CommentLuv Premium

Those that have CommentLuv Premium have noticed an increase in comments as well as some of the sharing of their blog posts since using the plugin, I myself have noticed an amazing increase, which is what we all want for our blogs.

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So there I was the other day preparing a new blog post when something rather bizarre happens, all my blogs categories and tags disappeared from WordPress!

What Was Happening And Why Was This Happening?

After looking around several sites and trying to find out the reason this had happened I really couldn’t find any help anywhere, with some places saying it was the fault of a plugin, some saying it was WordPress causing the issue and some saying that it was the fault of PHPMyAdmin!

So I wasn’t really getting anywhere with a solution to the issue that had now made all my posts listed under ”uncategorized” and no tags being listed anywhere, which in turn also caused a of category and tag pages disappear from the blog as well.

Upon further investigation and testing, I also found that I couldn’t even add new categories or tags to the blog. So this led me to believe that it’s not an issue with the WordPress installation, but it was actually a problem with the database used by WordPress.
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OFFER NEVER TO BE REPEATED. SO GET YOUR COPY NOW!!!

OK fellow bloggers today is the day and CommentLuv Premium gets it official launch and Andy Bailey, creator of the immensely popular CommentLuv plugin, has decided that CommentLuv Premium will be available for only 7 days for an amazingly low price!

Complete madness!!!

So now is the time to get your hands on what has become a a buzz amongst bloggers, including myself, that have been using CommentLuv Premium as it went through its BETA stage and believe me it’s fantastic

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Now this is something that I’ve seen a time or to and even my Guest Bloggers here on Blazing Minds have had the problem with the dreaded WordPress white screen of death when they have tried to get on to the dashboard to add a guest post.

But is there a way to solve the problem?

The simple answer to that is YES!

There can be many things that cause this to happen, it could be plugins needing an update after you have upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.

It can even be a simple matter of memory on your server and 9 times out of 10 this is the main cause of the problem.

Most of the time a user will either get the dread WordPress white screen of death or they will get the dashboard appear with an error showing:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2323020 bytes) in /wp-includes/class-simplepie.php

But don’t worry there is away around this and it’s really easy to do.
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One of the things that can really get on your nerves when your blog gets more and more popular is the incessant amount of spam that keeps landing in your WordPress comments.

Ok so you may have Akismet running in your list of [intlink id="tips-bloggers-commentators" type="post"]Wordpress Plugins[/intlink], but to be honest it’s just not good enough and as mentioned by Gail at @GrowMap, Akismet can be a culprit of the dreaded white page of death on WordPress. So how about adding something in your WordPress Plugins that can really help.

Now thanks to Andy Bailey from CommentLuv there is a brilliant WordPress Plugin that can combat the dreaded Spam.

The GrowMap Anti-SpamBot Plugin is such a simple but very effective deterrent to the pesky bot spam that you get with a WordPress blog.

Why Use the GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin?

1. No false positives – your favorite commentators and new readers WILL be able to easily comment in your blog.
2. Blocks spam that Akismet was letting through. We are getting ZERO bot spam. Only those commenting manually who check the “I am not a spammer box” can leave comments.
3. Easier for commentators than using a Captcha or math plugin – never a “wrong” answer that isn’t wrong or a problem with cookies!

Why Not Just Use Akismet?

1. Large numbers of bloggers and regular commentators who never spam have been flagged by Akismet as spammers.
2. Any commentator who has been flagged as a spammer is treated rudely by your blog. They never see the message your comment is being moderated so they have no way of knowing what happened to their comment.
3. If you have a particular box checked in the Akismet configuration, comments left for real people who have been flagged incorrectly as commentators in posts more than 30 days old are immediately deleted and they see a blank white page. See how to turn off Akismet Comment deletion.

Read the many other posts and hundreds of comments related to problems with Akismet.

I’ve only recently started using the plugin and my SPAM has been reduced dramatically, so in my point of view it’s working like a dream, but don’t just take my word for it, check it out for yourself. Download the Growmap Anti-Spambot plugin on WordPress or via your Admin section under WordpPress Plugins in your WordPress installation

Earlier today, I took my blog offline while I experimented with the new Tweet button from Twitter and though it does look nice, I still prefer Topsy!

Saying that though I did have some fun with updating the code that is used to creat the new button from Twitter, yes I know my coding skills are nothing to boast about but if they work, that’s fine by me

Anyhow this is the code that I grabbed from the Twitter Goodies page for adding the Twitter Button on my blog:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/share” data-count=”horizontal” data-via=”BlazingMinds” data-related=”RemBeatZ:For some awesome music”>Tweet</a><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”></script>

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Here’s my list of 10 things I want from a free Wordpress theme.