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but I do expect support (in the support forum)

by what logic?

You think that because this place exists to foster a supportive environment, that this means that the people who volunteer here are subject to your expectations?

Instead of expecting support and throwing a minor tantrum if you don’t get any, consider instead being grateful IF you get anything at all. Whining because I(we?) are not falling over ourselves to help you with your little website isn’t particularly attractive.

*all* the threads in your profile are ones you’ve started. If you’re not satisfied with the quality of the support you’re getting, consider hanging around and improving it by using some of what you’ve learned to answer the more basic questions that are asked here 100 times a day.

Spend a day helping, then talk to me about expectations and the quality of the wordpress community.

Squawking like a hungry chicklet and getting upset when people don’t drop everything to help you isn’t going to get you the right kind of attention.

Check my threads if you’re looking to impeach. I think I’ve started 4 in total (2 of which I’ve cheerfully answered myself).

it’s probably your theme that’s broken. WordPress works fine on php5 (I’m using it myself)

your theme’s functions.php is loaded for the admin area as well… gonna guess the problem’s in there, if you’re sure its not your plugin(s).

Like I said, the timeline is meaningless, so you really should allow for a couple of posts of lag, before you decide I’m sinking the boot in.

edit: since we’re editing, I’m well aware of the definion of the term concession, as well as the tone in which it was given. We’ve certainly both been around long enough to tell the difference between conciliatory concessions and otherwise.

I appreciate your respect. The feeling is mutual, but really that enters into it long before points are scored in arguments. Respect is supposed to make you think about what was said before you start arguing against it.

I’m sorry if you think I’m harping on about this, but I really would prefer this to be the last time we have an exchange like this. If you think I’m going overboard, it’s because I never want to do this again.

Anyway, this is all moot, I appreciate your willingness to allow for a point of view which you consider to be a statistical anomaly. I don’t think it’s the most likely outcome either, but worth mentioning nevertheless.

“I will give you one concession”

I don’t need your concessions, I’ve just jammed your comments up your arse. I maintain that what you said was misleading.

Instead of saying “yeah, you’re right, its just MOSTLY spam” like even *I* said myself up there when I corrected you… you went on a bloody undeserved rampage because someone had the balls to suggest you were wrong.

Get over yourself.

Whatever percentage you think it is… its still significant, given the nature of the attempts.

Oh for crying out loud, obviously it isn’t a requirement to be registered to be hacking, but if you think they’re not trying that *as well* you’re miles off course.

I also love that you said “Very few wordpress exploits require you to be registered member” That’s a gem. So we should just ignore those few and tell everyone that its “just spam?”

It’s happened historically, and it’ll probably happen again. The fact that there isn’t a current exploit based on subscriber-level access doesn’t mean they won’t find one.

And just because you threw the term ‘bullshit’ at me, I’m going to have a quiet giggle about your 20 websites being any kind of representation of the internet, that is, assuming you could even identify an attempt at privilege execution from a registered user via your extensive logs from websites you haven’t controlled until after the mess occurs.

Whoo, you were wrong… occasionally defending your wrongness until your ears bleed isn’t the best course of action.

All I said was that you shouldnt speak in absolutes, because its misleading.

As for your request for proof, you could have included that instead of crying ‘bullshit’ earlier. Now I’m not really inclined to do your googling for you, especially since you KNOW there have been exploits in the past relating to registered users.

And even if there NEVER WAS an exploit relating to registered users, you can bet you ass it’s being tested every day, which makes your “its just spam…” comment that much worse.

It’s never *just* anything.

I can guarantee that this won’t be the only unwanted file there.

backup your images/videos/etc, delete the bang lot(*all of it*)… reload a fresh copy of wordpress and all plugins.

well, its not *just* spam bots… saying that is misleading. It is also hackbots looking for privilege elevation.

it is MOSTLY spambots…

I think anyone who spends a minute thinking about this though, will realise why the latest version is more affected then some prehistoric one though.

If you’re making a bot, and the registration form changes a little, what do you do? stick to the old 2.0 version of your bot, or change your bot to increase your chances?

how that constitutes an invitation by wordpress is beyond me. Get your head around that.

hehe, I assumed it wasn’t you, because I thought you might try something different, if at first you didn’t succeed 😉

if I may add a small suggestion for notation purposes… and maybe ease of editing down the line…

instead of doing:

.sidebar a:link, .sidebar a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

lay it out like this:

.sidebar a:link,
.sidebar a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

that way, when you end up with something like:

blockquote,
.sidebar ul ul ul,
.entry table td {
  margin: 0;
  border-left: 1px solid blue;
}

it’s more obvious that they’re unrelated, and you save on horizontal scrolling.