luckdragon

well, part of that if else statement that you have above is coded wrong, you have

<href

not <a href

both are syntactically correct, as for processing time, it doesn’t make enough of a difference to mean anything, it’s probably done moreso for ease of code following, no other reason.

in your theme’s functions.php put the code located below:

http://pastebin.com/BrWs1Tmy

all you have to do then is change “ishkibbibble” to whatever username you want to have access to everything

basically, what it does, is if the user isn’t the one defined, it removes the “right now” box, then creates a new one with all of the same information, excluding the “discussion” table.

do you mean removing it off both the admin menu and the dashboard? (so there is no link to comments at all)?

I doubt that you will find a plugin that you can just use to read a custom database, you would definitely have to have one built for you

what is “key” in your get_post_meta?

the way you have that written, it checks to see if photo1 is defined, if it is, it shows, it

then, is photo 2 defined, if yes, show it
then, is photo 3 defined, if yes, show it
then, is photo 4 defined, if yes, show it
then, is photo 5 defined, if yes, show it if photo 5 isn’t defined “NOTHING”

if that’s what you’re trying to do, then you don’t need the }else{ line at all

also, if that’s what you’re trying to do, using an array might be easier

$cfield = array();
for ($i=1;$i<6;$i++) {
  $ok = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'photo'.$i, true );
  if ($ok) $cfield[$i] = $ok;
}
if (count($cfield) > 0) {
  foreach ($cfield as $key => $val) { ?>
<a href="<?echo $val ?>">Photo Source (<? echo $key ?>)</a>
<? } } ?>