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Unfortunately this is one of those things that if you have to ask about, you probably can’t do yourself.

Tagging involves extending your cms to support additional keywords related to your content, and then building a mechanism to exploit that relationship based on those keywords.

As for the pinging part, it depends on whether your cms supports public notes being associated with your content… like comments for example.

If you can do the comments part, then “all” you need to do is build a system which reacts to pings from other sites and posts those as related notes/comments in your database, and displays them beneath your content.

Of course you’d also need to extend your content creation system to send pings or trackbacks to others, by scanning your content for links and contacting the target websites with a properly formed ping.

Sounds easy?

Good luck.

Do you understand the concept of “fitness for purpose”? Certainly everyone should be praised for pushing the envelope with the tools they use, but there’s a point at which it becomes ridiculous.

You’re playing tennis with a slice of cheese, do you not see that?

You need to be looking at much lighter ways of achieving your directory concept, than wordpress, or at least something with a little user security already built into it.

You’ve already posted half a dozen threads about your new project… it’s as if you’ve found wordpress, now the rest is up to us to do for you. Go, break new ground, forge a new path if you think you can, just don’t make it our problem.

well, the first thing that jumps out at me, is that your header image needs a little adjustment.

Given that it fades to black, consider aligning the image to the right hand side so that it works on all resolutions. Right now, it just stops dead on screen widths bigger than you anticipated.

I’m on a laptop at 1680×1050, so I’m a LONG way from what’s considered high-resolution these days.

Webmeba, your inability to follow the brief with your initial design is indicative of the quality of your critical opinions here.

If you can’t follow rules, then you have no business complaining about the designs of those who CAN follow the rules, no matter how stupid you think those rules are.

Naturally, as your first design didn’t follow the brief, it’s disqualified.

Now lets look at the second one.

Here’s yours: http://webmeba.com/images/chris-ranes2.jpg
here’s the original you complained and beat your chest about: http://myfitnesswithchris.com/images/myfitnesswithchris_larger_trans-1.gif

The breakdown:

1) your logo is infinitely more boring than the original, making use of only a very basic sans-serif font and some really poor use of whitespace between your two lines of “design” which could have been done in MS word.

2) what does “ertified” mean? what does “hris” mean? Oh I get it, that big-ass C was supposed to fit with both of them, even though its miles away and doesn’t really flow into either line… I get ya now.

3) Please tell us why the copyright symbol has become your biggest design influence here? Maybe I’m wrong, perhaps you’re just sponsored by the letter C, and the numbers 4 and 6.

4) What does a HUGE letter C have to do with fitness and personal training?

5) The big bold C looks like your attempt at rating your own work Unfortunately it’s quite generous. The OP could have done a better job himself in a word processor. Awful.

Even you would have to admit that your second attempt here is worse than the original.

I do agree that some human figure is called for, albeit cliche, but that wasn’t in the brief. Instead of complaining about the design the guy got for $25, maybe you should be complaining about the OP’s brief?

Anyway, if you want all that money to retire on, you’ll have to do a much better job of a logo than that.

look under settings, instead of options, the plugin was designed for a previous version of wordpress.

you could maybe look around for a minute…

you’re not pulling this straight from the DB are you? – that’s completely unnecessary.

you don’t “check it against” anything… the current_user_can function does the checking for you.

so, once you’ve created the capability, you assign that capability to a user, and current_user_can checks whether this user has that capability.

that’s all… no custom queries into the database, no nothing.

lots and lots of people are using wordpress on php5… it… just… works.

Do keep an eye out for any of your obscure plugins. Anything coded by a monkey should work, but some humans aren’t quite that smart.

have you asked this question on cooking forums, and pregnancy forums too? While not quite as bad as those, this is certainly not the best place for questions about specialised database concerns.

Your question has nothing to do with wordpress. I suggest you ask on a mysql forum.