alvinlee

Yes, I did that and apparently it seems okay. I get the result Mission complete, message 9 deleted. But then no blog appears. In other words, no error but also no blog.
Could this be blogging in a category that doesn’t exist?

some progress. So I simply type the url address of the wp-mail.php in my browser and I was able to run the php file. I got a lot of wrong user : password. So I made sure I entered “:” after the password as well. Now it works, so I get the following:
Mission complete, message 9 deleted.
But nothing blogs. I tried editing the script in the wp-mail.php file from default_category to 1, but that doesn’t work either. One time a blog was posted but with an error saying at some line in a file, there was no such thing. But other than that one incident, it successfully reads the email but doesn’t blog.
I’m thinking somehow it is placing it in a non category, but nothing is showing up, even with my admin user level 10.

Okay, it seems you need to run a cron job on the file to activate this function. How do you find out the exact name of the directory to activate. So far when I try it, I get “No such file or directory”
Here is my Cron command:
domain name/www/subdomain name/wp-mail.php

Can’t you exclude your categories by including only the ones you want? For example you wanted to exclude categories 8 and 9 and your code using $cat= -8, -9 doesn’t work because it only sees the first negative number. Then could this solution work:
$cat = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12 . Just a thought, since once can exclude by including everything else.

I’ve followed this instuction but I still get the same old style. No new skin here. I’ve tried 2 different css files. I’ve erased cookies and temp files but still the same old style. Any ideas what is wrong? Only thing I did different was I uploaded the new css, then renamed it wp-layout.css.
Here’s the instruction I followed:
you get a zip file on download.
unzip it using a utility like winzip/winrar.
you will get a css file + some additional files.
rename the wp-layout.css file to anything else on the server.
rename the css file from the download package to wp-layout.css.
upload the files to the same folder where the original css file resided.
that should be it. ??

So I’m giving WordPress a try as well. The instructions for changing the style sheet seemed simple enough. But After copying a new *.css, renaming it to wp-layout.css and 2 small jpg files under another folder, I did not see any change. I log out or use another PC and I see the same original layout. Clearing cookies,cache, removing trailing / doesn’t seem to help here.
I has a similar problem with b2evo, but it the new default index.php kicked in after serveral hours. It’s strange because I don’t use proxy servers. I’m waiting for my rubic css to kick in.
As for b2evo, I’m not sure about the benefits of 3 seperate blogs unified into one. Are you already doing something similar by being able to create multiple categories? Can we give status so that some users see other categories?

Yep, the removal of the tail end slash in the URL option was what did it. Why such small details can have such an unrelated effect. Makes computers pragrams scary!

I’m using win98, xp and IE6.0. Maybe my ssl function is out of date but I doubt it and I doubt this feature is being used here. This feature seems important so it needs to be looked into.