manstraw

I had a look at the site. I didn’t find it so bad. It’s a silhouette after all. In my opinion, it goes over the head of those too immature to understand it. And if they do understand it, well, perhaps it time for a talk!

And btw, I’m a parent of two children, 6 and 8.

I personally would not have such an image on a site like that, but mainly because it’s out of context. There is far more graphic images on television, even during soap operas, and certainly in the evening.

If your child did see the image, and said something about it, I think it’s the perfect opportunity to give your opinion on it, and instill the values you wish your child to have. You can’t shelter your child from everything that’s out there. You can only educate and empower them.

In the end, I personally have little problem with sexual content, as sex is a normal and natural part of our life. Essential in fact! We best learn as much about it as we can. Violence is another matter. I would be very happy if we could eradicate violent images from our mainstream media. But that’s not going to happen, so my own alternative is to educate.

I’m reminded of a song by Suzanne Vega. “I would shelter you and keep you in light. But I can only teach you Night Vision.”

oops, my bad! I meant to link to the Category Access plugins, which you can download here http://www.coppit.org/code/category-access-0.5.3.zip

from page http://www.coppit.org/code/

again, apologies for being momentarily insane!

here is a plugin that will suck content from another blog(s) and display it on your site. http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/?p=87

and another that does something similar
http://adam.404.org/projects/friends-rss/

and another
http://www.bueltge.de/wp-rss-import-plugin/55/

The first place I begin looking for plugins is http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility

The second place is google.

Why don’t you just write the page content in a post. It’s really the same thing, except you can stack more than one post in a category. If you *don’t* add another post to that category, it’s really the same as a page.

But there is something else to keep in mind. As that static content gets old, it won’t show up in rss anymore anyway. RSS really wants to show you the newest stuff afterall.

I also believe that static content should not be in an rss feed. I certainly would find it annoying if the feed had stuff in it that never changed. I’m having a hard time understanding why anyone would want static page content in an rss feed. Maybe you can explain a reason I haven’t thought up.

Using someone else’s work isn’t necessarily stealing. I don’t like it when I see those two words married. If I did a news story on doodlebee’s artwork being stolen on the nightly news, I can freely broadcast her work as part of my story. This would be a fair use. Your Katrina photos may qualify as a fair use, but you would need to consult a copyright lawyer, or better, obtain permission and skip the need for a lawyer.

Perhaps the photos you’ve already downloaded are not usable. I would suspect that there are many other photos you could freely use. If you go to the creative commons website, you’ll see links to photo archives where you are given permission to use the photos posted, provided you meet the terms stated. (many versions of terms, non commercial use might be one for example). Flickr is another good source for photos you can use. You generally are required to credit the photo source, which is fairly easy, just a link at the end of the video.

About music. If you use more than 15 seconds (or maybe it’s 30 in the US (I’m not in the US)) of a song, you’re required to obtain permission from the artist. It’s more complicated than that of course, but know that the RIAA bullies people beyond their rights. Don’t believe everything you read about that. There are also many creative commons musical selections to choose from where you can freely use the tunes.

I would personally get the role manager plugin, create a role even more restricted than a subscriber, and then set new users to that new role.

Then, at your leisure, you can come in, view users, and select all the ones that are newly registered, and change their role in one fell swoop to whatever youw want.

I would consider that less work than forwarding every email, perhaps you feel differently.

The role manager plugin is hugely useful, and worth the download anyway, so I recommend checking it out. You can specifically control the rights of each role.

If you have can get to the kiwiingenuity/wp-content/uploads folder, your ftp program should have an option for you to change permissions. Look for it in the menu. You likely need to highlight the uploads folder, choose the permissions function from a menu, and then set the appropriate check boxes. Just click on all the ones for ‘write’. If that isn’t successful, ask your webhost what folder permissions need to be for php to be able to be able to create new subdirectories and write files a given directory.