angsuman

I would not normally go for any provider with unlimited space deal 🙂

> Is somebody know any good reliable hosting .
I have been using WestHost from 2000. They are hosting Taragana.Com and my Simple Thoughts Blog & Free eye care book. Never had problems. Their support is very prompt and capable. The VPS (Virtual Private Server) is actually the deal clincher for me.

I am reading several posts by members here complaining of problems with 1.5.1 upgrade. Check out MacManx blog for some details too. Some like Tom Raftery feels it is ok, but when I went to comment on a post on his site, I found that it is broken. So people feeling ok may just haven’t explored enough to know, specially non-visible like trackbacks or pings.

Is 1.5.1 still a recommended upgrade? Matt?

I was wondering if Matt and his team could just roll out a patch for the security vulnerabilities.

Personally I will hold of any upgrade till WP goes to a more stable debugged release.

I use tables. You can check my site – blog.taragana.com
Most of the wordpress functions accept a prefix and suffix. There you can use table tags instead of the default list tags. Some functions do ot accept prefix and suffix. You need to replace them with your own version.
It shouldn’t take you more then 1-2 days or so to do it.

As to why, it was just easier to achieve what I wanted using tables then div’s.

> Maybe you can find a theme that’s already been rebuilt with tables and modify that?

You can start with Bionic Jive theme which is table based. There are others too.

Your permalink structure is wrong. It works if I use:
http://freedomdown.silverfir.net/index.php/25/hooked-up-with-the-new-host-proxies-coming/

You have two options:
1. Fix the .htaccess (mod_rewrite and all). I cannot help but there are others in this forums who can. Personally I don’t mess with htaccess.
2. Do not use .htaccess. You can refer to my article on permalinks for step by step instructions on this which will fix your problem.

Thanks for chiming in folks.

Yes, unfortunately people do go for stupid ideas instead of real content and value. No wonder spam works 🙁

@clarke1866
My goal is to have the site (my hobby) pay for itself by the end of the three years.

I think you can make it self-paying much much earlier. Mine took 2-3 months, don’t remember exactly.

@billysaythis
One option for trackback spam is to moderate all, by default.

However I found such measures were not necessary by using few WP features like blacklist judiciously.

@andymatic I think I know which plugin you are referring to. In fact I got severely pissed off with its false-positive error messages which are very juvenile and very insulting. Unfortunately some moderators here like podz don’t want to hear anything bad about it and will vigorously defend it, without understanding ground realities.
HashCash is pretty good in stopping comment spam. It however doesn’t stop trackback and referrer spam. You can try ideas which worked for me.

WordPress is very much search engine friendly if you start using permalinks instead of query strings, which is the default.

Search engines like Google only access limited amount of query string based url’s to avoid being stuck in infinite loop. It is described in their web master faq.

Yes, your individual post pages will be accessible to all search engines including google, except for the limitation with the default scheme as noted above.

BTW: MT also suffers from the same issue, many people are not aware of it. Using some kind or permalinks (non-query string based) solves it.

There are two approached to permalinks. One using htaccess, one without. I prefer without using .htaccess.

If you decide to go with permalinks consider using it without embedding date which IMHO only makes it uglier without adding value.