purrkur

Thanks Manzabar and Macmanx. I have disabled pingbacks and tracebacks and then I ran the following query in my database:

update wp_posts set ping_status=’closed’;

Hopefully my spam issues will go away, at least for the time being ??

Beel: Are you one of those “helpers” that always has to add a degrading comment in order to feel superior to the ones you help? Sure seems that way.
Anyway, I am new to WordPress and this forum as well (which I might add, I find a bit hard to search in compared to other forums I am used to). However, I had not made the connection. I thought that if you go to options -> discussion-> “Allow people to post comments on the article” would turn comments on or off for comments on *all* posts and not per article.
So I had actually searched, but for the wrong thing. This means that your comment was totally unnecessary.
But thanks for your help. Your link helped me see what I had missed.

Thanks for your help!

Hmmm. I implemented the change from above written by Skippy but it is not really working as I would like it to.
Here is what it does: A user has to register, log in and have their user level set above zero in order to post. That is exactly what I would like!
The problem: Users with level set above zero are also able to post articles, even though I have set “Any registered member can publish articles ” to “unset”. What I would like is to have visitors post comments but not post articles. Is that possible? It seems that level 1 immediately allows users to post own articles which is a shame….

Thanks Skippy. That was what I was looking for. I am very surprised that this isn’t a part of the standard package…

Did you check in your browser if you can view the source of the page?? If you do and you get to see the code then it probably means that the code is not being sent to the PHP interpreter. However, it is strange that B2 runs fine since it should not if PHP interpretation was at fault. Are you running Apache? If you do, do you have the following lines in your httpd.conf uncommented:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
They should be in there and uncommented. Also, the “libexec/libphp4.so” should contain the full path to the .so file.
Good luck…..

Never mind people. I removed Apache2 and installed 1.3 instead. I don’t think that the version of PHP that comes with Debian testing is compatible with Apache 2.0. Things are up and running now ??