What’s this another blog post about WordPress 2.9, yes that’s right I’m bringing you some more blogging tips in the hope that I can help out fellow WordPress users that may be getting that awful message “Sorry, that file cannot be edited” when trying to edit a theme file with the WordPress 2.9 built in theme editor.

So what is the solution to the problem?

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It’s been a funny old week since I updated to WordPress 2.9, don’t get me wrong the new update is fantastic and some of the new features are extremely useful to use, but, and this is a big but, after installing the update, every time I made a post or used a ping back or trackback my WordPress blog would not ping or send pingbacks to other sites!

But now since making a tiny little tweak to the file “wp-includes/cron.php” I’ve fixed the problem!

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It only seems like the other week when Wordpress upgraded to 2.8.5, now another release is available, Wordpress 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.

I’ve just backed up the database of my blog and used the auto update option in the Wordpress dashboard and it’s updated to the latest version, so far everything seems to be running ok, and all my plugins seem to be behaving themselves.

When it comes to WordPress plugins for posting on my blog, I use several which I couldn’t do without and find extremely useful for several reasons when producing blog posts or controlling posts from guest bloggers.

So after my post about the WordPress Plugins used for my Weekly and Monthly Stats I thought I would bring you some blogging tips and show you just some of the WordPress plugins that I use and fine helpful in my blog. You can get all these plugins via the links from this blog or you can use the “add new” option in your WordPress dashboard under plugins. Read the rest of this entry »

I was getting a bit fed up with the ugly permalinks that my blog had recently, but the problem I had was all the links to the blog on other sites would then become void, so what was I to do.

But luckily I found a plugin that would help with this, the plugin is called “Permalinks Migration” this handy WordPress plugin will do a 301 permanent redirect when an old link is clicked and send it to the updated permalink, helping you keep traffic and retaining your Google PR for those links, it’s easy to set up with simple instructions.

So if you are thinking of changing your permalinks on WordPress then this plugin is certainly worth considering.

I was reading my comments the other day and was asked what plugins I use for creating my weekly stats. and monthly stats. on my blog, so I thought I would write a post about them. All the plugins are free to download from their sites or you can find them via the add new option in your WordPress plugins section in your WordPress dashboard.

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Sometime back I wrote a post about making the most of your RSS feed, now it’s time for a little advice on using your RSS feed with FeedBurner and Comment Luv, two very useful sites that will improve your linkbacks when you post on other blogs.

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