jaykul

wow. did the install page show up ok?

Can we just let this thread die? Clearly he likes to boast, even when every validator proclaims the errors of his ways.
https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boastology.com%2Fblog%2F
There is no way any validator is going to let you get away with this:
<meta content=description name=”add your site description”>
That’s wrong in so many ways, I’m just going to go outside and mow the lawn and try not to think about it.

If you (the spammer) can spare the bandwith to create tons of email accounts, set up scripts to check them repeatedly for emails and click on all links … then I have several good ideas:
1) We’ll hunt you down using your ISP information, and a subpoena if necessary.
2) We’ll sign up your email account (after all, we know it’s valid) for some … uhm …. commercial email … bucket-loads of it … if the sheer volume of email doesn’t cause problems on it’s own, maybe paying for the bandwidth of clicking all those links will give you pause.
3) Maybe someone will even send you viruses, after all, we know your email address, and that you automatically process HTML email and click on links, and not everyone is as nice as I am.
4) If you think that’s nasty, wait until the guys over at 2600 hear we have the email accounts of spammers …
Honestly, I think the idea that a spammer would be willing to go to such lengths, and take such risks, just to post in your blog in the hopes of increasing his Google rating before you spot and delete his post … is a bit egotistical … but then, maybe my site’s just not very important.

Did you leave off the “https://&#8221; ?

what flickerfly means to say is: What you are talking about doing is practically always illegal … you’re better off linking to the other website. ??

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yeah, uhm…. who put the files there? It sounds like someone else installed it, and neglected to give you rights to it.

Hmm. I know on the MT-Textile plugin they used another plugin (SmartyPants) to handle encoding quotes and such … I think Beta 2 of Textile does a lot more of that … but I guess my next question is: can we make texturize just handle entity encoding (or make that part of it seperate)?
The thing is, I depend on this shorthand entry stuff, it saves me a ton of time. Plus, it enhances the safety of my site, because I don’t allow html in my comments at all (but you can format using Textile’s shorthand. But I’d still like the nice typographical corrections … actually, what I would REALLY like is for the typographical corrections to be made on the way IN to the database …
I’ll post more about this in a feature request.

he he Bayesian filtering for blog bomments (on MT).
I don’t really have anything else constructive to add to this discussion, although I will mention (again) the extreme unusability of captch-style blocking, and the impracticality of ‘moderated’ comments.
On second thought, I have two ideas ??
First thought: treat commenters as ‘users’ and submit for moderation only comments by first-time users only. Once you’ve approved a comment from a given user (a combination of name/email/url), all futur comments from that user would be automatically approved. I’m assuming that spammers don’t care enough to figure this out, or having figured it out, to go through the process of posting a real comment just so they can get the right to post spam.
Another idea would be a kind of ‘registration’ requirement for blog posting … where non-registered users would get an email when they posted a comment, and would just click a link in the email. Actually, you could bypass their having to click, if you just embed an image in the email … then they could validate their comment by either:
a) they get the email, and it loads an image: https://myurl.com/commentvalidation.php?comment=commentID … which shows up in the browser as a graphic that says something along the lines of “By viewing this image you have verified your identity and your comment has been accepted”
b) they get the email in a text-only email client (or with images disabled) and they have to click the link at the bottom (which goes to the same location)

Hey, just a couple questions: I was sort-of assuming that nobody was interested in this, and then I looked at my server logs and it looks like I’ve gotten a few hits from this thread … so (if anyone out there in dev-land is reading):
1) Since I assume that code beautifying isn’t in high demand, this probably doesn’t belong in the default WordPress install, but can I get this put on the ‘official hacks’ page?
2) Is there any particular reason why WordPress has it’s own “wptexturize” instead of just using the ‘lite’ textile option (or even a very simple modification to make a ‘liter still’ option) ?

Well, when I left them intact, I kept getting “there are no posts that match…” on my page.
Did you just copy my version of the file? (if you click the link in the article, you can click the name of the file at the top to see it without line numbers (so you can copy and paste).

yay, I’ll go get those. ??

hmm… looks like maybe I can’t fix this in the template … see it’s the “index.php” part, without that, the link would work.
https://www.huddledmasses.org/2003/11/1/starting-to-play-with-templates/index.php?p=3&more=1&page=2
I tried using:
link_pages(‘
Pages: ‘, ‘
‘, ‘number’, ‘next page’, ‘previous page’, ‘%’, ”)
hoping that the empty last parameter would cause it to skip the ‘index.php’ but I guess not.

On my old domain, I have a php script for doing this that you can easily call from your template. It does caching and everything … feel free to copy ??
https://jaykul.fragmentized.com/scripting/news_feed_parser.php

well, fonts and such you can easily change in the wp-layout.css file.

Oh, yes, captcha’s … goody, why don’t we just put a permanent ban on handicapped people accessing the web. >:-(