joeedmon

This feature does not work and has broken our workflow. Next time you guys have a really really cool option you think everyone in the world should be using please give us the option to turn it off. Also, this option should have been off by default, not on. I have been using WordPress since it was forked from b2. This is the first time I have said I hate WP. Now, for the first time, I’m worried about doing the regular updates.

Autosave is killing me. I am losing custom fields, publish states, and categories with this “feature”. I am sorry I upgraded.

How many registered users can WP handle without breaking? 100s, 1,000s, more?

Check out RJO for some examples of what’s possible without having IE support for max-width.

There is also a special script language that MS uses called ‘expression’ that fits into your CSS. I used it a few years ago for a situation similar to yours. I think it’s just a way to pass on a javascript command to CSS. Unfortunately, I can’t find that little code snippet anymore. It worked like a charm though.

After trying everything suggested (other than editing my .htaccess file by hand for every single page) and still not getting any success, I tried Reduced Rewrite Plugin from boren.nu. Works great, and it doesn’t have to write to .htaccess every time you add a page.

I’m working on something similar, and am doing it similar to the way o-juice describes. There are wp functions that allow you to get categories by ID # or name. I’ve also got a site that does something similar for showing posts from several specified categories. It all works quite well. I’m at home right now, otherwise I’d put in the particular function names you need to use.

Referrer Karma will actually help out with trackbacks. You can include RK on your trackback page, and any other PHP page that you want protected. If a computer is flagged by RK as a spammer then RK will block the IP for whatever time you have set up. This has nothing to do with what type of page is being accessed. It is just tracking behavior and making a decision based on that.

The blocking occurs in the .htaccess file so your whole site is protected for the time period, regardless of the spammer’s entry point. It started out as a way to keep logs clean and is actually much more useful. Also check out this article by Tom Raftery.

I have never used WidgEditor and won’t comment on it directly. I installed similar software and ended up deciding that it was just easier to beat some sense into the people doing the blogging. Things like “highlight the word and then click on the ‘B’ button.” It has worked out quite well, actually. I still can’t get them to do pretty links that don’t extend 3 feet across the page, but they’ve got the rest of it down pretty good.

My problem with the editors was that when editing text there was always some garbage code left behind. It wasn’t unusual to find DIV and SPAN tags floating aimlessly about inside the text.

The posting software “corrected” my link and converted “& # 038 ;” to an ampersand in both my code snippet and comment. Hopefully this will show what it was I intended. Just pretend the spaces I added to fool the interpreter aren’t there.

I’m not sure, but the “&” in your <img> tags doesn’t look like it belongs:

<img src="https://www.arakon.net/pictures/Berlin&PuppyOC.jpg" alt="" />

I assume you intended for an ampersand, “&”, to be there. Ampersands are not allowed in URLs. Rename one of your photos, removing the ampersand, or “&” if it’s there, edit the link so that it reflects the new name and give that a try. The old WP probably didn’t “correct” malformed links, which is why you got away with it in the past.

Try Refer Karma. I haven’t used it yet, but it should be modifiable to be used with trackbacks. The reason I haven’t used it yet is because it hasn’t been an issue since I into my .htaccess file.

I like it. Hope you finish it.

Fascinating. I’ve never seen anything like that before. Your source code shows a bunch of weirdness go on. Set your site up using just the default templates and theme. Also, if you can get to the MySQL database, go to the wp-posts table and look at the content field for this post. What does it show there?

There is a difference between Win Server and Unix/Linux hosting. You will notice in the forums that a lot of people providing answers will throw in a quick note about “that’s how you do it on a Unix machine. I don’t know what you would do on a Windows machine.” This is especially true when dealing with .htaccess files, and using the pretty permalink structure.

For every webhost I have looked at the Unix/Linux prices offer a significant savings over Win Server. Most hosts do support Front Page on their Unix platforms. Having said that, I would rather die than use Front Page, but some people prefer it.

We’ve been screwed over by 2 different hosts. I highly recommned that you DO NOT use:

https://ace-host.net/
https://powweb.com/

When we were hit by the spammers last month, Ace not only shutdown our blog, but deleted our account and our files without any notice. We were not given a chance to retrieve our data and tech support refused to talk with me. Last year when spammers hit us Powweb would at least talk with me, but they made it clear that if we got hit again we would be permanently removed from the server.

A lot of bloggers are on https://www.hostmatters.com/. I’ve read a lot of good comments about them, and they seem willing to work with bloggers and the realities of the Internet. HM has had some weird problems in the past, but at least they weren’t booting people off.

We shifted to dedicated hosting. BTW, Virtual Dedicted Hosting is not the same thing as the real thing. You are still sharing space with a bunch of other people you never met.