Now this is a controversial point for a lot of bloggers and readers of blogs, the dreaded word “Toolbar“, but hang on a minute let me finish, those of you who visit my blog often will know about the Wibiya Toolbar that runs at the bottom of Blazing Minds and I have personally found that it has helped reduce my bounce rates since it was installed.

I have tried to make it match the colours of the site and it fits nicely at the bottom the blog, not bothering anybody, but for those that look a little closer at it will notice that I have some handy little featuring running on it and recently I add some of the newer features that Wibiya have added to their site for Toolbar users to use.

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So it’s now 2010, wow doesn’t time fly, it doesn’t seem that long ago since it was the 1st Jan 2009. With another month flown by it’s that time ago to bring you a round-up of the previous months round-up, things have been hotting up on the blog over the last month and only today I was proud to announce on Twitter that my blog had hit the 3,000 mark in comments a wonderful milestone for myself and a true appreciation of those that stop by and decide to leave well written comments.

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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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Continuing in my popular 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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There can be times when you hit that “Delete All Spam” button in your WordPress dashboard, but, sometimes not all the comments in the SPAM section should be there and every so often someone might have their comment classed as SPAM when it isn’t.

So when you get a list of SPAM comments in WordPress make sure you check to see if someone you know not to be a spammer has fallen in the wrong box, this can easily happen and one of the reasons can be that someone is commenting either too quickly or too much and if this does happen then usually that person will be blacklisted across many WordPress driven blogs.

To stop this from happening check your comments and if you do see a commenter that shouldn’t be in the SPAM section then “Approve” their comment and after a few times they should start going straight to the blog rather that in the Spam section in the comments.

So to recap! Don’t just click the “delete all spam” button, check your spam section and approve anyone that has accidently fallen into the section

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