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Oh. cool. didn’t realize Akismet came as a plug-in. I’m back to being a noob. Other than blogging, I haven’t kept up with the tech since I customized my site. Which is another reason I’m dreading updating–customized code tweaks. I did plenty of commenting, but it’ll prolly still be a chore. arrrggghh. Thx for the heads up, Saurus.

Thanks Mikey1,

I am thinking of upgrading, but if I’m gonna do that I also wanna redesign a bit, so that’s bigger job than it might appear. I’ve heard the newer WP are better at battling spam, but I never assume upgrading will be ‘painless’, so I’m not inclined to do it just to stop spam. But thanks for the suggestion. As I just posted, the site should be pretty much read-only, and yet I still get comment-spam. How does that happen? At this point, I’m just curious how they can get around even an old version of WP.

General Options>Membership: Anyone can comment–unchecked, Users must be registered–checked.

And still, the spam comes…

My site should be something close to read-only now, but I’m still getting spam. Can anyone tell me how that’s happening? At this point, I don’t want to try anything else (ie plugins) until I understand the nature of why my site is still accessible to spammers. TIA for any help.

It still keeps coming. I don’t get it. How can I be getting comment-spam when nothing (no one) is allowed to comment?

Oh ok, so I create a custom class containing a width-attribute that I associate with a cell as you show above? But what setting do I use for ‘width’ that makes things ‘fixed’? Absolute, static, something else?

Actually, I was just about to post again saying that I admit I don’t know what the heck I’m doing with respect to this.

Here’s my blog:
Citixendotorg

The header graphic and the searchbox area to the right are contained in a 2-cell table as the only ‘solution’ that worked reasonably well when I started the blog. But it has its problems.

I’m trying to prevent the right table cell color and the 3 nav-tab borders (just beneath the header on the right) from being able to expand and contract relative to text-size, so at least those elements remain consistent across resolutions.

Is that possible? I notice other sites have page elements firmly fixed no matter how greatly I decrease/increase text-size. How would one approach doing what I’m doing the *correct* way? :]

So ‘fixed width’ is an attribute of a td element?

big DOH! here…found out what was going on. I noticed the Pages associated with a category that I can’t delete (id=1) but don’t want to use, and therefore had made invisible a few months back…

Sorry for the hot air…

well…I rolled back the two minor formatting tweaks I put in the code (adding a couple of
‘s in sidebar.php, and a &nbsp in archive.php) but clicking any of my Pages still gives me the “Edit this entry” link which leads to a blank post page in the admin console. This even though the link itself shows the correct path to a Page when rolled over. Something’s getting mangled somewhere, though all I’ve been doing otherwise is messing with CSS… Can bad css mangle code?

Here’s the conditional statement from page.php that is throwing up the ‘Edit this…’ message. As commented, I once replaced letters with arrow characters. It worked like this for the past couple of years. Is there anything that could be causing my current problem?

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post">
		<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<div class="entrytext">

<!-- modded the_content() text to characters........................................... -->
		<?php the_content('<p class="serif">&raquo;&raquo;&raquo;</p>'); ?>

		<?php link_pages('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

			</div>
		</div>
	  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
	</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Excellent idea, hadn’t thought of that! Now its giving me a more standard error…as if I’d asked for a private/restricted post or something. It’s a clue, at least.

Those Pages were last edited about a year ago, and they worked then fine. And honestly, I haven’t done much of anything with the site since then, other than author posts.

There are a couple of what I thought were minor html formatting attributes I added to index.php and archive.php earlier today that I could roll back and see if they somehow affected Pages behavior…?

But I’m going to eat first b4 investigating further. I’ve been at this too many hours ;). I’ll report back when I find something. Thx again!

Turned out, upon closer inspection, that this was a db issue after all that was likely the result of my service provider messing with my email-posts cronjob (as near as I can tell) at some point this past summer (with no notification, of course!@#$%). This resulted in around 2 dozen duplicate posts spaced 27 days apart from the originals. For some reason this was more easily apparent in WP-Manage Posts, but required some fancy sorting to verify on the db.

Thx, Moshu. I thought that might be the case. At least that narrows down my options for doing what I wanna do (tho’ without making it any easier)

thanx, moshu…I had begun to suspect as much…mounting code-hat and specs ??

yeh, I saw that too. the info given on optimize sounded somehow more applicable. everything else about the records and their corresponding table relationships is fine. just want to re-factor that auto-index. the more I think about it the more I realize I need to know that I can do this while still maintaining the correct dependencies. (Does wp_posts in fact contain the unique identifier that all other tables in the database use?) (yup, i will remember backup beforehand). And for that matter, that WP would even behave this way under these circumstances. I haven’t bothered to look at php-code yet, only because I don’t think I ever messed with anything there, and certainly not recently. thx, tom

ah, yes, my old friend CSS…I knew there was something I’d come across before that could make this happen. Thanks, vkaryl!

Ouch, I’ve got to dl and crack open a whole theme? But I thank you, Ileger, if nothing else comes down the pike maybe I’ll try looking at de Groot’s code tomorrow. I was hoping for a more general W3C HTML reference or tag-attribute that would facilitate this behavior…but thanks again!