Title: Liberating WordPress Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Liberating WordPress * [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/) * [http://www.libertini.net/libertus/2006/01/15/liberating-wordpress/](http://www.libertini.net/libertus/2006/01/15/liberating-wordpress/) * Open Source surgery to free WordPress 1.5.2 of its security system and replace it with something simpler that works for me. No holds barred, gory and definately not for the faint-hearted. Strictly for the avid programming train-wreck rubber- necker. You have been warned. * Please don’t disturb me while I’m working. I get irritable. * Libertus “A lone inventor on the unfashionable fringes of the sentient internet.” Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320226) * Almost done. With a few more minor stitches, the surgery will be complete. After a bit of spit and polish, the patient will be back on its feet and feeling better than ever. * Tonight, I expect to have “Liberated WordPress 1.5.2” managing my blog. * I’m past the irritating phase of development now, so discussion is invited and won’t hurt, I promise! * Libertus “A lone inventor on the unfashionable fringes of the sentient internet” [http://www.libertini.net/libertus/](http://www.libertini.net/libertus/) * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320236) * Oh dear! A [major problem has arisen](http://www.libertini.net/libertus/2006/01/15/liberating-wordpress/#responsibility) whilst [liberating WordPress](http://www.libertini.net/libertus/2006/01/15/liberating-wordpress/) and [the development team have had to meet](http://www.libertini.net/libertus/2006/01/15/liberating-wordpress/#feasibility-study) to discuss it. They have asked for [a manual to be written](http://www.libertini.net/libertus/2006/01/15/liberating-wordpress/#manual) before they can decide whether to go live. It’s all very exciting, but that means the changes won’t happen tonight. Very sorry, folks. These things happen. * Libertus “A lone inventor on the unfashionable fringes of the sentient internet” [http://www.libertini.net/libertus/](http://www.libertini.net/libertus/) * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320237) * Hey, I can edit my comment! WordPress already does what I want! No fair! 🙂 * Oh – sequential comments by the same user are editable. Good idea. I hadn’t thought of that. * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320238) * Can I have three editable comments? Yes. What is the grace period? Unknown, but I can watch. What happens if someone else comments? * Cool. If you guys are allowing this, why shouldn’t I? Feasibility study over! Thanks! * MOSHU! Don’t you dare break my monologue. Yes! I can see you. You’re thinking about it, aren’t you? Oh yes, you want to. * Do you want some, Moshu? Do you? Go on then. Break my monologue, if it suits you. Oh, does it suit you? * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320239) * _ I can edit my comment! WordPress already does what I want! _ * Just to break your monologue… this is **not** WordPress. This is bbpress > [http://bbpress.org](http://bbpress.org) * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320240) * MODERATOR!!! Moshu broke my monologue! No fair!!! * And now, back to the regular programming… I apologishe for the outbursht. * — Original comment before the silliness — Oh! My mistake. * You’re brave to break one of my monologues, but thank you. You have further revealed the implementation of editable comments chosen by the WordPress guys for an important forum. I am tussling with the same problem. * bbPress looks very interesting. Thank you again. * Now, please forgive me. * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320241) * Have I sufficiently illustrated why I care? * I really cannot be bothered with sorting out the kind of crap I just caused. No-one can. So why does the software allow it to happen? * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320244) * Grace period no more than an hour. * Now, should a single contiguous sequence of comments by the same person be considered a single or multiple utterances? Once comment editing is available, is such an exuberance necessary? * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320245) * This is making me rethink the entire concept of moderated discussion. * You guys are fab! * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320246) * You want editable comments on WP? Why don’t you say so? [http://code.jalenack.com/archives/edit-comments/](http://code.jalenack.com/archives/edit-comments/) * [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/) * (@sushubh) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320247) * umm. weird post… * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320248) * Yeah. I don’t know what’s with this person…. very strange. * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320256) * You guys have never met a real geek before? Never seen the software development process from start to end? You’re so lucky! * Moshu, thanks for the link. Yes I want editable comments and shall offer them to my readers, but only when I have assured myself that to do so if giving them a useful tool, not a weapon or joke prop. * Sushubh & vkaryl, wierd and strange. That’s me. Nice and friendly, too, though. * Thread Starter [libertus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libertus/) * (@libertus) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/liberating-wordpress/#post-320258) * One thing I’ve just noticed that I have to heap praise upon. The referral URLs to my website from here include a query string with the number of replies to this comment at the time of referral. That should prove interesting and useful into the future. * I know it is purely an artefact of the URL structure of this site but I really like it. What a great idea. 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