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KJ, I just noticed in the php code I posted, the “at” was rendered wrong…. you will need to precede the ‘a’ and the ‘t’ each with a backslash ‘\’ .

KJ,

If you look through the “index.php” file in the “default” theme directory and find “the time” funtion just under the title you can edit it to: <?php the_time('l F jS, Y at g:i a') ?>

That will give you the day, date and time. You can also copy the whole line from the index.php and add it to the “single.php” just under the title.

Thanks Mark, I added that code directly after the “if” statement but before the “Logged in as …” It worked like a charm.

I’m sort of surprised it worked right out of the box for Podz unless he’s using a nightly which had the code added since the 1.5 release.

Again, a very cool plugin….Thanks Chuyskywalker.

And Podz, thanks for the CSS.

Very cool….but as stated above, it doesn’t work if logged in.

Thanks TG, I’m going to give 1.5 a try for a while to see how well it functions against Spam using the included features. I’ll add the cheese cloth later if needed. ??

Looks like I can delete the file now. ??

OK, save this image over your current one and see if it works. (deleted link)

No, that 60×60 gray image is used as the background color. I’m not sure if it’s even needed since you can set the background color through the body tag attribute. The sidebar grayed area is actually part of the larger graphic that includes the whole formated page. In my sidebar I’ve made that area 230pixels wide. If you are using Firefox as your browser, rightclick on the image and click on “View Background Image” to see it.

Shiner25, if you installed WordPress 1.5 you made a great start. Under the Options -> Discussion Tab is where you can set things up.

I’ve allowed comments, trackbacks and pingbacks by checking # Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) and # Allow people to post comments on the article in the Usual settings for an article: section.

FWIU, in WP 1.5 all comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks are treated the same. So if you select under the Before a comment appears section, # Comment author must fill out name and e-mail and # Comment author must have a previously approved comment all comments will need to be approved by you. As you mark post approved or SPAM you will begin to see less and less SPAM and more and more legitimate comments will be automaticall approved.

You can also add words including name, URI, e-mail, or IP to be blacklisted. Posts which contain anything contained in the blacklist you will never see. Also, you can enable WP 1.5 to automatically blacklist comments made from from open and insecure proxies which are not legitimate sources for comments.

Over time that should do a bang up job. But you can also install plugins to augment the process.

It could be that the plugin code was used first. (?) ?? Anyway, if I have problems I’ll be installing a plugin too. As a side note, I think what the WP developers did with regard to SPAM in 1.5 is as notable as the theme additions.

In WP 1.5 there is a blacklist form to key in words and a selection to Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies. I’ve added nutzu and tigerspice, along with holdem and a few others to the black list form. Plus I’ve selected (checked) to Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.

Along with that I’ve selected Before a comment appears:: # Comment author must fill out name and e-mail and # Comment author must have a previously approved comment. My understanding is this will capture all comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks. Those which meet blacklisted requirements will automatically be labeled SPAM and others will wait in the moderation queue.

So such an occurance has to be done on purpose? So enabling Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies from within WP 1.5 is a good idea?

OK, what are open proxies and how can you tell? And if I enable Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies could that blacklist legitimate comments, pingbacks or trackbacks?

If you added these names to the blacklist form included in WP 1.5 would that block them too?

What are the advantages of using a spam plugin in conjunction with the new spam zapping features included in WordPress 1.5?