angsuman

Try Gila or Bricks. They are the best IMHO. Most three-column themes are defincient in one way or other. I went through the whole list at multiple sites.

Cons
Bricks has some minor issues I cannot remember now otherwise great.
Gila is neat but bit SERP unfriendly as sidebars are loaded first before content. So expect to see strange excerpts in yahoo or Google.

I use gila derivative on my computer job site.

That could happen if your plugin settings got corrupted in the database.

Again to repeat it is logically impossible for this plugin (unmodified) to corrupt the database in any way or to throw that error that you saw. If I had a million dollars I would have bet it on it 🙂

The plugin doesn’t touch the database in any way. It doesn’t make any queries nor does it modify any data. The query you mention is not related to this plugin either.

It is not possible for this plugin to contribute to database corruption in any way. There must be some other cause.

The code you have quoted above simply sends a unavailable message to a client when the plugin is activated.
The plugin has been very well tested.

Database can be corrupted for many reasons but this simply cannot be it. Have you tried modifying the database in any way manually? That is the most likely cause.

What have you seen in the code that lead you to believe it may have contributed or it is bad code? Please justify your answers before making wild insinuations.

Did you modify the plugin in any way, however minor?

BTW: If you want any plugin authors to respond to a plugin issue then the best place to contact him is through the appropriate plugin page.

I had no idea of this post till MacManx kindly pointed me this way.

Thanks MacManX.

You are just becoming popular 😉

Everyone has their own medicine against comment spam. Here is mine. Recently I upgraded to 1.5.1.3. It didn’t affect anything wrt. comment spams. They are still at zero. In fact I have observed that apparently the spammers have given up hope on my blogs and moved elsewhere.

I heard good things about Bad Behavior too.
@podz Why do you need to use both? Shouldn’t one be good enough as they effectively address the same problem space?

I use very successfully HashCash & Referrer Bouncer plugins. I am 100% spam free in my blogs.

We can argue endlessly over the semantics or try to address the issue. Your call.
I would rather have it focussed on solving the problem and moving on.

This concerns usability and friendliness of the forums. Yes the problem I am seeing is with few individuals but the effects are not. It affects lots of members in different degrees. Do a search to find out frustrations poured out by other members in the past. You can dismiss them, make caustic remarks or try to understand their source of frustrations and improve.

So it is relevant to this forum and this thread.

@jalenack
Without the bad-mouthing, retort-at-innocent-comment and close-post-when-I-darn-well-please mavens, I think we would be better off 🙂

Support is wonderful, free support is great, flying-off-the-handle is not. Irrespective of how helpful a person is doesn’t give him the right to behave outrageously. Such juvenile behavior is tiring to say the least.

Just because I can close a post to new replies doesn’t mean one should do so at his whim or when the discussion turns even slightly against his sweet liking. There needs to be a clear code of conduct, specially so for such a well-visited forum.

I wouldn’t mind helping, as always, so long it doesn’t consume a significant portion of my time.

Note: These comments are targeted for very few individuals and do not reflect in any way on others. By and large I think most members, often many without the venerable “Support Maven” status, are very helpful and go beyond their call of duty.

I am hoping this post will be a wake-up call to the very few for whom things have gone, a bit, to their head. To quote Pingomation – “Slow down cowboy!”