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I might not have the answer you want, but I’m also bumping your post, remember. I’m not preventing anyone from jumping in with the answer you want, if anything I’m keeping your question visible by discussing this with you.

Ultimately though, the answer to “what happened?” is “someone made these guys admins when they don’t expressly need to be”

Part of your job in a technical role is to provide advice as to how best to proceed. If it were me, I’d pass on what I told you, and if they don’t like it, then they can stop asking you who keeps breaking stuff.

*bump*

(as a side note, why do people get upset when you discuss alternatives with them? when did volunteers on a forum become mindless answer-vending machines? gimme a break. Google doesn’t give opinions.)

lots of threads like this… not many solutions

I fished this link out of my profile, follow the breadcrumbs and see if there’s a solution there for you.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/179790?replies=3

young or not, I think the look should match the subject matter.

the design shouldn’t be about the age group, but about the relative maturity of the target audience. Reading about finance? chances are you’re not actually drunk or sitting around with your friends at the time, and you’d value concentration over lots of dancing shit with pretty colours.

The site looks like it was made by Mattel for ADHD kids… I would *definitely* bring it down a couple of notches and make content king again.

Here’s a nugget to think about… if all the beer sites are calmer and classier than your finance site, you’re doing something wrong.

Is the skittles vibe really what you’re going for?

I completely understand wanting to go for a point of difference in marketing, but there’s such a thing as too much. Ultimately websites aren’t just a marketing tool, they’re also interface design, so they have to be usable and foster an environment in which the viewer can actually make use of the content.

well, I think the problem is that he’s an administrator in the first place… and that you have so many (and that you can’t trust them to confess).

If you have authors who have no business changing settings, then they should have their user level set as authors or editors at most.

That doesn’t really answer your immediate question, but it does solve your problem permanently.

Users should always be given the *minimum* permissions they need to do their job. If that creates personal problems, then that’s where the focus of the education should go.

Hi Dee,

the instructions on the akismet page are actually quite right. I understand the confusion, but the reason you have to get an API key from wordpress.com regardless of where your blog lives, is because the key gives you access to the akismet online service.

Think of it as going to wp.com to get a key to akismet’s front door… when you think of it that way, it makes sense that the key isn’t on YOUR site.

you didn’t mention if you’re on a mac, or using ecto under windows…
if it’s the latter, have you tried windows live writer? Seems popular.

personally I’ve not used any of those things… I think they’re great for people who write massive posts, but even my meatier ones don’t warrant that kind of attention.

hey I just painted my house, do you like the new colour?

you’ve written a bit of php, which really has nothing to do with wordpress… and which you haven’t shown us, but we’re supposed to diagnose the issue based on NEITHER the function, nor the contents of your ini file?

well, keep fixing it if you like it… but fact is, the problem is with the theme, as strong is bold by default, and em is italic by default, which means somewhere in your theme’s style.css they’re being re-defined still.

that’s 100% a theme issue.