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Blazing Minds Weekly Round Up – Twitter Websites, WordPress 2.9, Muppets

Karen — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:37:11 +0000

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.

Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

Failures of 2009, Failure quotes: Forgiveness begins at home – Monetize Your Life
10 Reasons I Wouldn’t Copy Your Article – ExtremeJohn
Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month [Update] – ReadWriteWeb
Using The New Post Thumbnail Feature In WordPress 2.9 – Kremalicious
Getting To First Page Of Google – Tycoon Blogger

Top Visited Posts:

Top Referring Websites:

CMF Ads – 122
StumbleUpon – 110
BlogEngage – 78
EntreCard – 69
ExtremeJohn – 40

Top Search Terms:

skechers shape ups reviews
youtube muppet videos
monkey dust music
twitter websites
wordpress 2.9 “sorry, that file cannot be edited”

Top Search Engines

Yahoo – 29
Bing – 26
Google – 16
Ask – 6
Lycos – 1

Top Commentators for the Week

Mike – 10 comments
Chandan – 7 comments
Dennis Edell – 6 comments
Ileane – 6 comments
Anand Srinivasan – 4 comments

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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Can’t Edit Themes in WordPress 2.9 – This May Be Why!

Karen — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:29:30 +0000

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?

I hunted high and low across the internet trying to find the solution, checking out the WordPress support forums trying to find a solution to why this would be happening and even though I spent a good few hours looking I didn’t seem to find much help.

So back to WordPress and into the theme editor and used the drop down box for theme to try to edit other themes:

Changing this to other themes and trying to edit them had the same problem, it had me stumped why!

When then I got a reply to a tweet I made from my good friend @digitalbeat666 and it was so simple it was obvious, why didn’t I think of it!

Yes folks it was that simple! So I tried activating another theme from the selection of themes I have on the blog, then went back into the WordPress 2.9 theme editor and it worked, fan-bloody-tastic, so yes it was that simple!

If you are having the same problems with your installation of WordPress 2.9 then simply change your theme, it could be as simple as your theme isn’t compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

So a big thanks to @digitalbeat666 for pointing out the obvious, cheers

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WordPress Not Pinging? – Here’s To How To Fix It!

Karen — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:42:00 +0000

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!

If you look at the original code for cron.php you will find the following code:

$cron_url = get_option( ‘siteurl’ ) . ‘/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron’;
wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array(‘timeout’ => 0.01, ‘blocking’ => false, ‘sslverify’ => apply_filters(‘https_local_ssl_verify’, true)) );

You will notice that I have made a bit bold! This is what you need to change, change this to 1 so now it should read:

$cron_url = get_option( ‘siteurl’ ) . ‘/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron’;
wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array(‘timeout’ => 1, ‘blocking’ => false, ‘sslverify’ => apply_filters(‘https_local_ssl_verify’, true)) );

Now you should find that you pings are now working again, hopefully, I checked mine via the Ping Optimizer plugin and the log on the plugin confirmed a ping status!

Please remember before using this tweak, back up your original “wp-includes/cron.php” file, just in case, you never know

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