robscott

The code works fine when inputted into our theme’s Functions.php file, on WordPress 3.2.

Was just about to write a little function to do this, so thanks, as ever, the community saves me 10 minutes!

If it isn’t working, there must be a conflict with some plugin or some function already contained within your theme. Try with the default theme, then, if it still doesn’t work, try disabling plugins that your think use thumbnailing. Once you identify the plugin that’s breaking this function, either, decide if you really need that plugin OR just edit the function to use different terms.

Hope you can all get this working – it’s helping us to publish via RSS to our Facebook page, yet going through Feedburner, and still using an image, without giving the sploggers access to full text RSS.

Highly recommended functionality, in other words, which should probably enter the core at some point!

Forgot I asked for this – still not completed this project (not a priority). Bumping before deleting in a day or two!

I don’t see why people get defensive about this – its a must have feature under data protection laws – self-deletion is important, particularly if you have register to leave comments turned on on a busy website, for example.

It shouldn’t be so difficult to add this to the core, perhaps with double “are you sure?” buttons, and maybe an email confirmation required too?

Facebook have added this recently, after, quite rightly, taking a lot of flak for not allowing self-deletion.

The alternative is to create a very visible “please remove my account” contact form, and ask user to list email address, username, etc, and then admin does a follow up email to the registered account to make sure its not a malicious contact – while this is a little long-winded, it will prevent users from getting pissed off with you.

I also routinely email all registered users using an email plugin each month asking them to reply to me with unsubscribe if they want to delete their account, which is great for removing expired and no-longer-interested users who would otherwise clog the database with pointless details.

Just a few ideas for those of us who want to manage a database of active users!

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ozbigben – Success, you’ve hit the nail on the absolute head.

I’m running WP 2.3.3 on two brand new, clean installs – new databases, entirely new domain names, on my own server. There was nothing obviously wrong, yet the visual editor didn’t work. Not great when I wanted a few authors…

So, I have tried for the past 48 hours every single solution suggested on here. a lot of them don’t even apply to 2.3.3, and its amazing how many times people are being told to “check the visual editor box” etc – it’s quite clear that this is an issue suffered by many.

Just take the following steps:

1. Edit /wp-includes/scriptloader.php (not .js, but who’s splitting those hairs eh?) in notepad or whatever.
2. Find “tiny_mce_gzip.php” and replace with “tiny_mce.js” reload your browser (a cache clear and/or closing and restarting it may be required also). For me, this got everything going.

Sweet relief.

But without problems like this, my life would be so dull, and my desk wouldn’t have those lovely fist (and forehead) shaped impressions…