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@vkaryl Thanks. Its no big deal. I didn’t include author info initially because it wasn’t really a plugin, just a drop-in-replacement. However I took your advice and updated the code.

Please download the updated hack from my website. It adds few usability enhancements (without wasting bandwidth).

To anyone else interested, as Vkaryl and myself have tested, it works with 1.5.1 too.

@kay 9
I have described the process of backing up and restoring the database in my post – http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/note-to-self-backup-restore-procedure-for-mysql-database-for-wordpress-etc/

phpmyadmin doesn’t work for database size over 2MB.

@vkaryl
Would the simpler dashboard be from me 🙂
Good to know it is still working on 1.5.1

I know quite some people use my Admin Dashboard hack (link above) which replaces wp-admin/index.php file. I believe the same procedure should also work in this bug fix version 1.5.1. Let me know if you face any problems in my comments (link above).

Hope that helps…

The key question is that whether these steps are repeatable.

For example:
> I can send and receive trackbacks and pingbacks via NuclearMoose’s blog.

Try ten times. Does it work each time?

As I mentioned before I have seen signifcant instability of the XMLRPC library used in WordPress. I debugged the hell out of it. This might explain the erratic behavior you are getting. And also why this problem keep repeating. If you are careful enough with Wp 15. you will notice that some times your automcatic pingback to another post within your blog doesn’t show up. And sometimes after posting you may get a blank screen, specially if you have lots of server to pingback. Currently I override WP 1.5 pingback with my plugin which allows me to successfully pingback to several servers. As you know WP 1.5 cannot ping properly to many servers. In fact servers like pingomatic only works where you don’t have additional path to the URL.

Try this list:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/32092

> Well, technically, Referrer Karma is a PHP script. It’s not a WordPress plugin.
Anyway same functionality with less packaging maybe.

I agree that you can delete .htaccess from ftp. I wouldn’t even go that there are accounts without ftp access etc.
To me the key concern is to Keep It Simple. Using a simple one-click plugin looks better to me because I don’t have to manually modify any file through ssh (or ftp download & upload) etc. I also don’t have to watch out regularly whether my blog is broken because I, by mistake, broke some .htaccess rules. Again these are not impossible, just more time-consuming. I would rather delegate the job to someone else, a script or plugin. For experts in .htaccess I am sure it doesn’t matter. Let’s however look at the rest.

It’s like whether you use ed or emacs 🙂
For windows people: edlin or ms Word or even notepad.

As for slight performance penalty, in php world, I am already sacrificing performance for convenience 🙂
If I want to extract best performance from a system, I would use Java.

As we say in Bengali, when I have my bed in the river, why should I care for dews?

Have you checked:
Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.
under Options/Discussion.
It caused me the same problem.

It used to silently eat my comments. If this is the case, you can however find all your comments in your database, marked as spam!

Hope that helps.

Well if you call this friendly 🙂

I admit it does explain some details.

But statements like this from a bot do make me feel insulted:

It would appear that you are have been identified as a nasty comment spammer by Spam Karma and, as such, your comment has been deleted.

Wow! Judge, jury & executioner!

It also uses too tough means to deal with spamming like:

Note: unless you know exactly why your comment has been deleted (contained a spam URL etc), do NOT try to repost your comment again. It would only result in your IP and website being banned permanently.

Real spammers in my experience almost always uses compromised machines rendering IP banning meaningless.

BTW: If someone spams a SK enabled blog using Google proxy, will it then ban Google Web accelerator!
I think it will 🙂

The problem is SK causes too much collateral damage IMHO.

Personally I think the all the spam deterrent measures used by SK needs to be clearly discussed and presented as options as also the messages presented to the end-user.

As it is, they appear unnecessarily harsh and degrading to the end-user.

It is full of boastful messages like how many spams it has eaten, do you want to be next etc. The fact is spammers don’t read you blog before they start spamming you. It is their bots.
And bots don’t care for idle boasts!
Normal users however may feel offended by such juvenile boasts.

Normally this happens due to a plugin. Please check that there are no extra spaces at the beginning (before <?php tag) and after ?> tag. Otherwise just disable all plugins. Once it starts working, activate one by one and see which one is creating the problem.

Otherwise reinstall the php files again. that should fix it.

I am running wp 1.5 from January approx and I never faced any problems with any aggregator except bloglet (which itself is defective).

Hope that helps.