Yes it’s that time of the week for another in my series of weekly updates from the Blazing Minds blog where I list blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading as well as some of the stats for the week, such as the top 5 referring websites that have graciously sent me some traffic over the week.

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What’s this [intlink id="wordpress-stops-pinging-fix" type="post"]another blog post about WordPress 2.9[/intlink], yes that’s right I’m bringing you some more [intlink id="565" type="category"]blogging tips[/intlink] 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 [intlink id="52" type="category"]WordPress[/intlink] 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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