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I just saw this and wonder, why would you do this?

The * means any user agent. That also means bots that access your feed. Wouldn’t it mean that the technorati bot couldn’t read your feed? What about other sites that read your feed to what has changed?

Why not just specifically name googlebot and slurp by name?

I made a plugin for a buddy of mine that displays random posts by category.

Basically, it has three functions, can display a set number of posts that belong to two distinct categories(eg only displays posts that belong to category 1 and category 5), display a set number of random posts that belong to two distinct categories, or a set number of random posts that belong to a single category.

https://www.ax697.org/46/category-magic-plugin/

Maybe this can help, not sure.

Yeah, I didn’t get the prompt either, but that is all cool. I just mnaually type in the upgrade link.

Maybe your database is NOT hosted on localhost. I don’t know your host, but I do know that GoDaddy and others host the DB’s on other servers, not on localhost. You should check your hosting control panel and see that server your mysql server is on.

Then double check your database username, database password and database name.

It went good here, sure wish there was something automated like SMF does. I have shell access and I couldn’t find a decent way to take advantage of it, ie I am kind of stupid and I don’t know all of the shell commands. Anyways, with brute force I have managed to update 9 different blogs on the server and all went well.

There probably isn’t a post_count award, but thanks for the awesome answer. It was right there in the codex. At least it solves a major dilemna I hadwhen trying to figure things out.

Thanks again.

I am using the feedlist.php plugin. It is very easy and customizable. I can’t really understand all of the code posted on this thread, but feedlist does the job. Can’t remember the link to it, but just do a search for feedlist.php wordpress plugin and you will get it.

First off, I love the theme. It is great.

Secondly, I figured out how to remove the site name and description from the top of the page, which is step 1 of my eventual aim. I would like to put a graphic logo in place the site name/site description. What is the easiest or best way to do it? I am a newbie when it comes to hacking code, but I am eager to learn.

Thanks!

I think if you are making a plugin or themse for WordPress AND you decide to release it to the world, then you need to make it available for free, even a less gpl would be ok. The programmers who made wordpress made it for free and without wordpress, the themes and plugins are just some lines of code that do nothing.

If instead of releasing the themes or plugins, you just use it on your own site, then that is ok, keep it to yourself. Don’t advertize that you will sell it. And if someone comes along as says, hey that is cool, can I buy it? Then you should be able to sell it with a gpl, meaning the guy you sell it to could publicly release it to the world.

I don’t know nuances of the GPL, the comments above are just based on my own sense of right and wrong.

Yeah, wp-cache works good on some of my sites, but I use wp-polls and it doesn’t really work with the polls. I could probably do a workaround on the site I have polls on, but without much of a worry about speed, I don’t bother. It just generates a new page every 30 minutes or whatever you set it up as.