Eric Mann
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet API Fot WP.com sites only?Yes, you can use Akismet on a self-hosted wordpress.org blog. However, you need to get an API key from wordpress.com to do so.
Since you already have a wp.com blog, log in to the site and go to My Account >> Edit Profile. Your API key will be listed at the very top.
Copy this into the appropriate settings on your wp.org blog’s dashboard (Plugins >> Akismet Configuration). Save your settings and viola! You’ll now have all of the features of Akismet on your wp.org blog.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Adding new admin tools to dashboardAmbal13 – Try posting a description of this project at http://jobs.wordpress.net. There are a lot of experienced developers there who can either set things up for you or at least get you started.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Update 1 a week, why?Bob,
Just because plug-in developers release an update doesn’t mean you have to actually update. I use the All-in-one SEO pack which updates very frequently. If it’s working, though, I don’t update it unless I’m updating a bunch of other stuff at the same time.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Help me censor one specific word and replace them with another?!?Marius-
Contact me offline via email( eric [at] eamann [dot] com ) and I’ll see what I can do. Let me know what plug-ins you’ve looked at already that you really like and exactly what you’d need changed …
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Help me censor one specific word and replace them with another?!?I’d recommend taking one of these plug-ins and editing it so that rather than replace words with ***** is replaces them with the content you want to use. You’ll have to edit the actual PHP files for the plug-in, so I recommend this if and only if you are experienced with tweaking PHP code.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Disable wpautopI don’t know what else you’ve tried, but the default way to remove filters is with:
remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');In my experience, that should do it. Have you already tried this? What else have you tried?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Before Login ActionIn that case, I’d recommend hooking in to WordPress’ authentication system. The action name is ‘wp_authenticate’ and it passes an array (array(&$user_login, &$user_pass)) as the variable.
But to answer your other question, the wp_login action is called when you have a successful login.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Intergrateing 2 blogsJohn,
There are ways to do this, but none are relatively simple. Having two identical blogs at different domains is akin to spamming and is frowned upon by most of the community.
However … you might be able to achieve this with the use of a plug-in like WP Hive (allows two sites to run on the same installation of WordPress) by sharing the post table between the two.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Using WP for Custom DB AppsFirst, keep in mind that WordPress was developed with blogging in mind. I’d actually recommend creating a free account at http://www.wordpress.com so you can see what the interface looks like and how things function by default.
That said, there is no problem with using multiple database tables to drive and manipulate data. It’s just that the majority of users don’t have that requirement and most people on the forums don’t interact directly with the database anyway.
However, you can add as many tables to the database as you want and interact with them either through pre-programmed SQL statements or on-the-fly statements. It all depends on your SQL and PHP programming capabilities and whether or not you employ an outside developer.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Before Login ActionWhen a user logs in, WordPress checks their credentials against its own database. If things check out, it creates a cookie with their username, and password and then redirects the user to whatever page they’re supposed to go to.
Right before WP redirects the user, it does the action “wp_login” and passes the $user_login variable.
You can hook into this action and check to see if this login is also in your external database …
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: RegLevel – New VersionHello all. I just released a maintenance patch that fixes the bug that had prevented you from saving your redirects. There was a bug on the admin page, not a conflict with your other systems. This is working now and is tested on multiple machines.
Please update to version 1.1.1 and let me know if this fixed your problem.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Conditional Tags in footer.phpnexen –
I tested the script on my own site, and it worked just fine. Do you have any kind of cache plug-in running on your site? If you do, try disabling the plug-in and testing again.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: JS Banner Rotate] New ReleaseThis just in! We’ve now released version 1.1. New features in this version include control over color, the ability to change display/fade speeds, and the ability to use rotating banners in theme templates.
Version 1.1 is tested to the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4).
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/js-banner-rotate/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Rendering in IE6I just pulled the site up in IE6 and it looks roughly the same as it did in Firefox. There are just two problems remaining: the difference in color between the background and the gray sections around the rounded corners. Also, the recycling image (people.gif) is displaying about a quarter inch below where it should be.
I recommend keeping position:relative; but dropping the float:right; from the style declaration. Instead, use top: and margin-left: to position it where you want it. This will makes sure it always displays in the correct location.
One other thing that might help: You have both #intro and #introicon set to the same z-index. Because you want #introicon to always display on top, you should set each div’s z-index separately. #introicon should have a higher z-index than #intro.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: MD5 Password Hashes] Does not work on 2.8.4?I get it now. I’ve had problems integrating WordPress with .NET solutions in the past for the same reason. I’m glad the plug-in started working again. Too bad we don’t know what happened, thought.