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Thanks for the reply. I had your version earlier and it didn’t work. Sad. But I very much appreciate your response. I got frustrated and decided to take the query in another direction. Probably not as elegant, but it gets the job done.

Thanks again!

Well, its back up again. It was down for at least 30 minutes. FYI all…

An update: based on further reading about how Akismet ‘learns’ what is spam, I ‘taught’ Akisment that I am not a spammer by repeatedly making a comment on my website, then going in and marking it as ‘not spam’. Within a few hours I was back in the good books. Doing this makes me wonder how easy it is to game Akismet… Still no word from an email sent to the Akismet team.

Bdsays: I posted a long comment with perhaps three links. I usually do not post comments with links at all. Just text. I tested it on my own site by logging out, and using my usual information, then logging in and looking at the akismet spam list. There I was!

Kafkaesqui, thank you for your generosity for sharing the above code. I appreciate it very much.

In the theme’s index.php you have the lines:

<div class=”storycontent”>
<?php the_content(__(‘(more…)’)); ?>
</div>

change it to:

<div class=”storycontent”>
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(); ?>
</div>

I will look over those plugins carefully. I guess I just thought that the hello world example would echo ‘hello world’. Both the google and delicious plugins do a lot, but a simple example is nice too. Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Good point TechGnome, you should probably only be messing with index.php. There are other circumstances when you might want to be changing things in other files, but it doesn’t sound like your scenario needs this.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, other widgets work fine as the widgets plugin is installed. I’m sure its something very minor that I’m missing.

Yes. There can be commercial themes. Although the above blurb doesn’t explicitly say so, at least it no longer says things have to be GPL’d.

MellerTime, everyone’s (default) wordpress install publishes not only an RSS feed for all your posts, but also a RSS feed for posts in a certain category. Here is my feed for the category wordpress. This feed doesn’t contain any of the posts I have made about monkeys (which I also like to write about). Similarly, the wordpress posts that show up in our dashboards are only a small subset of the posts made by whoever gets their posts in the dashboard.

The answer is to only put information in the RSS feed that is important. Not superfluous links.

Here is my updating of the Codex page for writing a plugin. Any comments?

Before:

You do not need to license your plugin under the terms of the GPL (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html); but any license you choose to use must be compatible with the GPL (https://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses).

These two sections can then be followed by the function definitions and the actual plugin code.

After my edit:

The licensure of your Plugin should be weighed carefully. This issue is somewhat of a grey area and subject to debate within the WordPress community. The general consensus is that plugins should be licensed under the GPL (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html), or a license compatible with the GPL (https://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses), although this is not legally required to write and publish a plugin.

Regardless, these two sections can then be followed by the function definitions and the actual plugin code.

I’m not sure what theme you are using, so without looking I can guess that wherever it says the_content in your theme you’ll want to replace that with the_excerpt_reloaded. If I know what theme you use I can suggest a much more accurate method.

Rocbooks, I have the same configuration as you, but no errors. I couldn’t tell you what is going on without more info.