kmurphy

point taken… thanks.

AHH! I just remembered! I bet this has to do with Web Accesibility Initiative Guidlines (WAIG)! This is probably why the […] exists to signify there is more info, and the title is the link… can’t have repetitive links. WAIGs, I remember, call for each link on a single page to be different. So no repeating link names like ‘read more…’ or […] for that matter.

Though, this does, I think, make the page less user freindly for the majority of users who are not useing any assistive technologies… one of the trade offs I suppose… Easy enough for those capable to simply click the title after they click the non hyperlinked […] a few times and learn it is not a link… So I suppose I will revert back to the original default… until I get around to building a theme or two. Must read all that great documentation.
thnx

Excellent! Thanks Kafkaesqui.

Now I will have to learn more about ‘the_exerpt ()’ and see if I can make the […] become the hyperlink.

Thnxs.

I have used word press on two not for profit sites that are concerned with environment and forestry policy. One of them gets no comment spam yet, the other gets poker guys crap. Not too much yet. But I can tell from these posts it is going to get annoying enough that the people who should be minding the site will just give up with it. I am not the saviest when it comes to the net, but am amazed that this type of spam is so hard to control. Can’t or isn’t there anyone out there who can simply follow the money and arrest these guys??

We are in a prisoners dilemma here if we (or rather the skilled good-guy programers) keep reacting to the different methods that these clowns use to ruin our blogs. If these comment spammers are spamming these blogs that have nothing to do with poker, then I suppose they are doing it so that there search engine hits increase. I read a post by someone who decided to leave the poker guys posts up and their site stats went up. So if we all do that, well…. the prisoners dilema…

Anyway, I came here to find a quick solution to poker guys annoyances and now see that a quick solution is not in the books. Hence my rant about following the money. I put these sites together on a volunteer basis and find the time to upkeep them and try to get others to do the same, Poker guys crap is going to make that hard to do…

Poker guy must make money by comment spamming us. What we need to do is somehow follow that money and utilize new anti spam legislation to put an end to it. I know it is not as simple as that; that is the nature of a collective action problem, and when I say we, I mean all the users of the internet who don’t like spam, so not a very focused group… but… oh what the hell, *sigh* I am just wasting time ranting, will go delete the spam and hope the ‘we’ of the internet can figure out a way to make spam go away…
First step… don’t make it valuable to spammers, delete all of your comment spam…

Thanks for the responses, I still have not figured it out. One thing that may cause an issue or two (though Ihave no idea if it is or why it would) is that the registered url for the site does not yet have the DNS numbers pointing to it, that should happed soon, just waiting on the person who registered the name to log into wherever they did that and update the DNS to the new ISP. I did set word press up with the url the site will be using so maybe this has something to do with that issue…???

Kind of strange, I have not changed a thing, and yesterday I was getting that validation error, today, it validates. All I did was leave my computer and go out with a freind for a beer… a solution I am going to opt for a lot more often now!
Thanks

Ok, well I should have held off on posting for the validation… I just figured it out… two list items wrapping the archives and and categories… anyway, it is valid now, but I still am missing the styles on the first link in the image bullets on an odd array of the links… hmmm. Back to the style sheet…

Here are the errors:
https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2F154.20.114.114%3A9090%2FGCCBFM%2Fnews%2Fblog%2Findex.php
Thanks

I see two valadation buttons on the bottom, one on the footer in the center and the other the WordPress one on the bottom of the right hand column…
The site is running on an old laptop, so maybe it is taking some time to load… maybe try a refresh??
Thanks.

Oh, I didn’t think that I did… let me go check it out…

I had the same problem… I was using the alias url I get from https://www.no-ip.com though as I am running this as a testing site at home… So when I changed my url in the options page from https://myurl.no-ip.com/wordpress to https://###.###.###/wordpress/ it all worked… I know that is not a helpful solution if you don’t have a static IP, but that was the cause of my “type a comment error”
cheers.

Ok, I updated the fileupload_url and the fileupload_realpath as well and was able to login to the options page to change the error of my ways :). Not sure if that is what allowed me to login or if the original url change just took some time to work its way through the system…
Anyway, I noticed that the recomended realpath in the destinations field of the miscellaneous options page read something like this “\news\blog/wp-content” can some one let me know why the forward slacs comes after the blog when all others in the realpath are backslashes??
Thanks

Thanks!
I was able to find in the options table the option_name “siteurl” and change the option_value to the proper url. I could not seem to locate a “home” row however, nor can I find the old url address value anywhere else in that table. Now when I mouse over the login and register links, the comments rss links, I can see in the proper url in the address bar, but when I mouse over the categories and archives links or any comment links the old url is still showing up…
Is the “home” value in another table??
Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the help!
Another question though… After getting the path sorted out with for the <?php
/* Don't remove this line. */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>
I then started getting the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_recent_posts() in E:\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\GCCBFM\indexTest.php on line 51
I assume I have define the function in the header, and I have a book that will explain that to me, but I thought that is what the ‘require’ file contained… Do I have to edit the wp-blog-header.php file as well? Which if I do, I am sure that it would break every thing else… Perhaps another copy of it… or should I put the sites main index page into the WordPress blog directory and route the alias www url to that page…

Thanks,
I have made another id10t error… I hadn’t clicked on the ‘advanced edititng’ button so I never saw the excerpt field… sheesh….