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incorporated with xanga (6 posts)

  1. suuuueee
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Okay, take a deep breath, I might not make any sense for a few minutes...

    I have a blog run by WordPress at http://suuuueee.net/x/index.php , BUT, I use it as my xanga. Let me explain.

    My xanga: http://xanga.com/suuuueee (i think it's currently down. they're very unreliable) is used as a "splash page" to my acutual WP-run blog. The only reason I use it is because all of my friends are located on xanga, and it just makes it easier for them to go to xanga.com/myname rather than an entirely new domain. Am I making sense?

    Anyways, because my weblog is "incorporated" if you wi ll, with xanga, I customized the WP files so that the EMAIL input (when commenting) was for a person's xanga username. And then I made it so that when a comment was displayed, the:

    Joe

    was changed to

    Joe

    Here's an example: http://www.suuuueee.net/x/2005/02/18/46/#comments

    Yes, yes, I know. It's not "right" nor "efficient" to the majority of you, but it worked for me perfectly.

    Until...

    I upgraded to WordPress 1.5. dun dun dun. This was my first time upgrading any kind of blogging software, and I was overwhelmed with relief to see that everything was still working perfectly. EXCEPT for the comments. Past comments were working fine, they still linked to http://xanga.com/someone but new comments were not.

    When I was posting a test comment, I entered my information as follows: Sue, suuuueee (my xanga username), and my comment. But when my comment was displayed, the URL shown was "http://xanga.com/my@email.com." Apparently, WP had taken my information that I submitted in the Admin panel and used it to replace where I typed "suuuueee."

    I realized that I could prevent this from happening by logging out of wordpress BEFORE I commented. However, I find this highly annoying.

    So finally, I come to my point. Is there a way of making a "custom field" except for COMMENTS, and not posts? So that I could have a random "xanga username" field that would display links to people's xangas without any inteference? I DO realize that my "method" still works fine for everyone else (just not me) but I'd like to know if there is a more "efficient" way of doing this.

    Thank you if you actually read everything that I wrote above, and congratulations if you actually understood it. :D

    Thanks in advance for any help.

  2. suuuueee
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Mmm. sorry. for the examples above, Joe and Joe should read:

    < a href="mailto:some@one.com" > Joe < /a >

    was changed to

    < a href="http://xanga.com/someone"> Joe < /a >

  3. suuuueee
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    bump. anyone, please?

  4. suuuueee
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    alright, i don't want to seem like an obnoxious person, constantly bumping this thread, but i've waited and gotten no reply.

    so i am once again bumping. this is embarassing.

    has anyone got <i>anything</i> to say to help me?

  5. Daisyhead
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    What file are you editing within your WP? I'm not sure if I can help, but I'll give it a try.

  6. suuuueee
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Finally! :D

    I'm editing wp-comments.php

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