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triple drat, so it’s adhesive that breaks it…

I just wish there was a really simple way of not displaying a group of categories on the front page as easy as it is to add cat exclusions in wp_list_cats() for use in the sidebar…

front_page_cats.phps v0.2 by Ryan Boren seems unstable (ok it’s in dev) and conflicts with pluggable_functions.php it also munges the left-hand padding of a right float in Win/IE6…

UGH!

Does anyone have a simple solution to hold back the display of a GROUP of categories on the front page without affecting the post counter and that doesn’t get stuffed by the adhesive plugin?

Update: I never found out why this weird error was occurring. I did another net install to replicate the first one, tested it to death 2.0.2 > 2.0.3 + all the plugins. It worked just fine.

In the end I gave up, ripped out all the test installs and did a new one – which works just fine.

A major time-waster!

A very late reply podz, yes searches are very much improved!

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@adeco2 (original post)

>1. Spam Karma allows comments that are not labelled as spam to be published unmoderated. This is NOT what I’m looking for. What options do I have?

Nobody seems to have mentioned the SK2 Moderate plugin written by Peter Westwood, who also wrote the SK2 Simple Digest plugin. It enforces the following settings in Options | Discussion:

* Administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)
* Comment author must have a previously approved comment

Get it here:

https://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/sk2-moderate-plugin/

I’ll switch my install around the other way, to test the symlink. Not “played” with sym/hardlinks before, so it’s worth knowing for other software that can only be fixed up this way.

Now I’ve discovered that my local PHP 4.4.1 isn’t compiled with GD (whatever that is!) as against PHP 4.4.1 on my webserver (which is)… (the SK2 Captcha plugin barfs on my local box).

Thanks!

I’ve wasted a month, off and on, since I received OSX 10.4.3 on April 25th, trying to get WP/MySQL working up to 10.4.6. Only when I rolled back from 10.4.6 to 10.3.9 on a dev partition did it work.

I’ve opted for copying php.ini.default > php.ini and defining the default MySQL socket to /tmp/mysql.sock

WP: 2.0.2
OSX: 10.4.6
MySQL: 4.1.19-standard
PHP: 4.4.1

“mysqladmin version” displays the unix socket and phpinfo() shows how the mysql socket is configured, so I should have spotted it! (Interesting to note that quite a few socket issues on the MySQL website.)

Everything works fine now, thanks guys!

I find tags a very good method… gave up on site searches here.

jarris: best done in your style.css, where you can adjust how the first line of paragraphs will be displayed.

If you can get SSH (Secure Shell) access to the web server, it a more direct approach, depending on how comfortable you are with command line administration.

Paranoia rules OK. In this case, it’s probably a good thing having read all the hacks lately….

I’ve just finished a perl program to chmod an entire branch working down from the current directory. You supply two arguments: directory permissions and file permissions. It doesn’t do any fancy tests for sockets, symbolic links, blocks etc. So it is simple and very fast.

It’s saved me a lot of work… and if you need to guarantee going offline, you can zap your public_html to private permissions (with care) or any sub-branch that needs maintenance.

If interested:
f u r r t r a p A T f i r e f l y u k . n e t

As a point of interest, the auto-install system Fantastico installs all WP directories and files with 755 permissions…

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you the version of Fantastico as I don’t know how to get to it in cPanel or shell. This is running on Linux.

Does make me wonder about file permissions… did they hack into your hosting account? Server logs should help.

That might be me, I want unicode 1-4 multibyte support as I’m designing an ISO 639-3 site. Mad git that I am…

I got exactly the same error on a local install because I’d used the latest version of MySQL v4.1…. fixed by rolling back to v4.0.

There is a link somewhere (need to find it) about WP not working well with MySQL v4.1, it certainly didn’t work in my case, but ran without probs on v4.0.

OK here’s the link, look at section “Downloading and Installing MySQL”
https://maczealots.com/tutorials/wordpress/

I’m sure the gurus on here will advise differently if there is a fix (I’m just a newbie)

Best Regards,
Jamie

Heh, sticksville here, no DSL or cable (probably one of the last communities in UK to get it). So if I go over 4 hours/day I’ll bust my monthly limit and end up getting a more expensive account! So until broadband arrives, I have to keep my net access strictly controlled.

The issue is BT not wanting to upgrade exchanges with few subscribers to broadband…
So now you understand why I want to work up WP locally, fine tune it, then mirror to netsite.

Jamie