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If you run a whois query on SUSPENDED-FOR-SPAM.COM – you’ll find that it is registered to the same person (i.e. fake contact info) from tiger$pice…it seems this was a ploy to get people to stop reporting him.

I did a little write up about it on my blog, and it seems his page is back up and there are currently 5 other websites being hosted on the SUSPENDED-FOR-SPAM.COM account. It seems like he’s trying to “see what works” to get rankings in the different engines.

After much ado, I’ve made a couple tweaks to Lester’s plugin which will allow it to work with WP 1.5 (if anyone is interested)

on line 42, change
$post = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT $tableposts.ID, post_name, post_date, post_title, post_content, user_nickname FROM $tableposts LEFT JOIN $tableusers ON $tableusers.ID = $tableposts.post_author WHERE $tableposts.ID = $p AND post_date_gmt <= '$now' AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_password = ''");
to
$post = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT post_name, post_date, post_title, post_content, post_author FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = '$p' AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_password = ''");

and on line 48, change:
$user_nickname = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($post->user_nickname));
to
$post_author = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($post->post_author));

and on line 62 and 63, make sure to change $user_nickname to $post_author

and on line 86, change:
<?php if ($post) { start_wp(); ?>
to
<?php if (have_posts()) { the_post(); ?>

After that you should be good to go ?? – if you want to integrate it with your theme, drop in <?php get_header(); ?> just above <?php if (have_posts()) { the_post(); ?> and <?php get_footer(); ?> on the very last line.

HTH someone

I had a similar problem with my newest blog. I needed to have a longer excerpt box, however, nothing I tried worked (not even editing the CSS) – however, I opened up edit-form-advanced.php and found this line:
<textarea rows=”1″ cols=”40″ name=”excerpt” tabindex=”4″ id=”excerpt”>

change rows=”1″ to whatever number you like, I changed mine to 5 which was sufficient for me.

Hope that helps someone out.

Nevermind, found the solution to the problem – didn’t realize it until I took a brief break then looked at the code again.

I realized that the code on the wiki is start_wp when I copied it, and it shoudl be start_wp()…someone may want to update the wiki to correct that.

Based on the feedback my client has been recieving, I’ve decided I may end up making a simple wordpress template similar to the site – if the demand for it would be great enough.

woo and hoo – thank you TechGnome.

Yes allusion – the feeds are working again!

snooky789,
It is possible to use wordpress as a CMS – it’s what I did for one of my clients. I removed the commenting altogether, cutomized some templates, created the category hierarchy in WordPress, created some mod_rewrite rules and she was good to go ?? – she now uses w.bloggar to update from her desktop.

TechGnome,
I’ve having the same feed problem – thought I was going crazy and decided I would try clearing out my old feed and adding it again (using Thunderbird) – but I came to the forums and couldn’t find the feed link again…oh yea, where are the feed links? ??

Your content is still way off to the right (huge horizontal scroll bar too) – if you want screenshots, let me know.

If you still have the wordpress zip file, simply unzip index.php and wp-layout.css into your wordpress installation folder again. If you don’t still have the zip, download it from the download section.

Open your wp-layout.css file and locate the line that says #header
Then add background: #color url(location/to/your/image.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;
Change #color to the color you want to use as the background, change the location to point to your image file, and the no-repeat tells the image not to repeat ?? – the two zeros simply tell the image to line up in the top left hand corner, you can change the location of the image by changing the zeros to something else (the first zero is in relation to top bottom position, and the last zero is in relation to left right position)
Hope that helps out – if you need another example, let me know.

NickToye,
That’s a really nice design, I like it and as mentioned before, it’s clean – however, I’m experiencing the same problem as method (#)
The layout breaks a bit in Firefox and IE6 – I’m on WinXP Pro 1152×864 if that helps, if you want me to send you a screenshot, let me know and I’ll do one up for you in both browsers.

It’s in the WP wiki – you can display the subcategories using:
wp_list_cats(‘child_of=#’)
where #=main category # (not child category #)
This will display only the children of the specified category, but not the main category itself.
Hope this helps someone out ??

Thanks for posting that Rene,
It seems you’re on WP 1.3 though? I’m on 1.2 and when I get the .htaccess info, mine is:
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^archives/…
Would my removing the slash do anything adverse to my site?
Thanks,
Teli