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both = Internal Server Error

esmi, I changed the string twentyeleven to twentyten in case that mattered. Same result.

I can spit out all posts with the following, but I just need that category.

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I just need from one category.

First, thanks for your response, Marventus, it makes complete sense. Second, sorry for not getting back to you or back to this topic to thank you… I haven’t tried the solution yet. Busy busy. I’ll get to it tonight and mark this topic one way or another.

Thank you, J. Problem is, I’m using Twenty Ten theme with a loop-category.php driving category.php. I’ve tried putting your code here and there and it hasn’t worked.

You have many plugins, and it would be difficult to determine which is causing the problem unless you start disabling one after another until you find out which it is.

Some plugins are very resource intensive, my advice is to use them sparingly.

lkoudal, that will set the user to your admin user, no matter who the user really is. Be careful.

Maybe that’s what you want to do.

For reasons that have to do with expediency and lack of port access on the client’s server (3306 not allowed, and thus GUI db tools not allowed), they want me to abandon efforts to get this change done.

They’re going to live with Subscriber = Member, and I get to feel silly for not being able to change that simple string in a reasonable amount of time.

BTW, web file string changes by themselves do not do it. It must be the combination.

I installed Role Manager, and if it was my site I’d have used it. However it’s a client site and I want to leave it as simple and straightforward as possible… a plugin that hints “abandoned, or soon to be” I just cannot use for production code.

I’m going to try to get what I want by modifying the WP files/db. Thanks for the pointer to the webfiles.

Disaster. Changing either or both results in an error page in admin. Hmmm, something must be depending on those not changing.

I think I found it.

wp_options table, option_id 66… it’s a big heinous free-text field with values that must be parsed out in php. Near the end of it you’ll find “Subscriber” and “subscriber”. I’m going to change them and see what happens.

I work in tech and have since 1996 (Quark). I know support, QA, web scripting and several related fields. Big deal. What isn’t harder to implement than talk about?

whooami, what do you think WP should concentrate on?

Old news to geeks like us, but probably not to the OP and newbies. Whatever the case, my point is that support can be bought… for cheap. Now that they have money, why not? IMHO the squeaky wheel at this point is tech support, not features or (the very nice) how-to’s at wordpress.tv. Will this post survive the day?

Anyone? Bueller?

A mod deleted my post because it mentioned the millions $ that WordPress’ parent company got?

Seriously?

My $.02? Glad you asked.

WP is subject to the laws of reality just like anything else. The easier things are, the less powerful they are. You want power? Enter [some degree of] complexity.

It’s just the way things are. Usually we see “Cost” in the mix making three variables and you get to choose two, but since WP is free we’ll toss it.

What? You want BOTH POWER and SIMPLICITY? Solution -> hire someone.

(Please don’t take that the wrong way, it’s not meant to be snobby.)

Then you have power — WP set up exactly how you want it — and simplicity — you sit down with a dev and point to this n that on the screen telling him/her what you want.

Can’t pay someone? That there is no answer for. I want a helicopter and a pony, but likely I’ll only get one.

As for WP support, that’s a different kettle of fish, one that I’ve complained about. Search my profile posts. I rate it a solid “meh”. It’s not bad, but it’s not great. Could be better.

Solution -> https://mattherrebout.com/2009/05/solution-for-query_posts-breaking-things-causing-havoc/