Laughinglizard

Anonymous: Are you getting the Error: ‘document.form.comment’ even without using the hack we are discussing here? Even so, humor us and try disabling your Zonealarm to test the comments. Without knowing much about your situation or your problem makes us shoot in the blind. A link to your blog/comment area might help us get a better picture.

I recently ran into this issue as well. The problem is that the comments go through a sanitising feature which takes out malicious content but also filters out some useful parts of URLs in comments. Here is the fix, though I suggest you leave it the way it is for security:
Find this function inside b2template.functions.php which is inside the b2-include folder:
function comment_text() {
global $comment;
$comment_text = stripslashes($comment->comment_content);
$comment_text = str_replace(‘<trackback />’, ”, $comment_text);
$comment_text = str_replace(‘<pingback />’, ”, $comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_chars($comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_bbcode($comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_gmcode($comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_smilies($comment_text);
$comment_text = make_clickable($comment_text);
$comment_text = balanceTags($comment_text,1);
$comment_text = apply_filters(‘comment_text’, $comment_text);
echo $comment_text;
}
Change it to:
function comment_text() {
global $comment;
$comment_text = stripslashes($comment->comment_content);
$comment_text = str_replace(‘<trackback />’, ”, $comment_text);
$comment_text = str_replace(‘<pingback />’, ”, $comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_chars($comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_bbcode($comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_gmcode($comment_text);
$comment_text = convert_smilies($comment_text);
$comment_text = make_clickable($comment_text);
//Made change to comments to make some links work
$comment_text = balanceTags($comment_text,0);
$comment_text = apply_filters(‘comment_text’, $comment_text);
echo $comment_text;
}

pingback_ping() function is only used when using the MoveableType API into xmlrpc.php in WordPress. The $debug=1 you are talking about, affects the pingback() functions inside of b2functions.php
I would just like to say that if any other APIs were used with your wapblogger(if that were configurable), this problem would not occur.

I abstained from this conversation because there could be a bunch of different answers to your question and I was waiting for one of the admins to jump in. Theoretically, it is very possible to have more than one blog inside a single wordpres installation. There is a variable embedded inside WP called blogID which, much like MT, can point to a bunch of very different blogs being generated from the same code. However, some of the code has been hardset to look at blogID = 1, thus limitings its power. Also, because WP generates pages on the fly (as requested by the visitor), your index file will will have to contain more input to differentiate between various blogs. (e.g. …/blog/index.php/blogID/2 or something) I would say that if you are (more than a beginner) php programmer and are willing to be adventerous, give it a shot.

<input type=”text” name=”submit” size=”15″ />
Should be:
<input type=”text” name=”s” size=”15″ />

That is not a very useful solution to comment spam. That method has been tried, tested and has somewhat failed due to the fact that a lot of spammers are manually entering their spam content. However, if there is a lot of interest in this method from the WP community, I could put some time into a hack.

Added your hacks to my list, including those of Jon, Mike and others. If anyone else has significant hacks for WP, please send me a link or simply logon and blog away at http://dinki.mine.nu/word/
I figure when these hacks get put into their right place, my site will be a good starting point. 🙂