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I’d say your coding is fine. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flqz.ca%2Ftest%2F

good stuff red. I look forward to seeing the end result.

Just thought I would mention that Category Access also restricts posting. You see the category in your list, but attempting to post to it will (without warning or any other indication), switch the post to draft and change the category to the default.

Also note that I was getting an error running 0.5.1 of Category Access, and went back to 0.5.0, which worked fine under wp 2.0.3. I emailed the author, but haven’t heard if he’s addressed the error yet.

You can use http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ to fetch article from your blog. Just give it the url for your rss feed, and there ya are.

will it help google ranking? probably not so much, unless it’s from a different domain.

Glad you’ve got it sorted. I supposed something like this could be an option in the admin area. However, I see this as a step backwards. I view it like when I receive a document from someone that I will use in print publishing (or web or that matter), and they’ve put in returns after every line instead of only at the end of the paragraph, and they’ve inserted spaces to get text over instead of using a tab. Perhaps it takes moment longer to set a tab, but that’s only once, and then you just need to hit tab. I spend a lot of time cleaning up a document I receive so it will flow properly despite the page dimensions. Same with a style sheet on a web page. You need to take a moment longer to define a style, but after that, it’s much faster to tag your content appropriately and let css do the spacing. I don’t want to turn this thread into a debate about web standards, but I do think it’s important to consider two things. One) that people who visit your site with non standard browsers have a hard time getting passed the extra br’s etc. Imagine someone who is viewing with a cell phone for example (and that’s just one example). Two) Consider the work you will need to do to clean up all the extra code when you change your the style of your website. If you did in a style sheet, it can be done for all of them in about 30 seconds. If you need to manually remove all the br’s, you best order dinner in, you’ll be working late.

I’m glad you’ve got what you wanted, but I don’t think wordpress as a whole should support that way of making pages. It rightfully cleans up a lot of junk in my opinion. The ‘new way’ is to separate style and content. There are many good reasons for this. The html tags are there to tell the browser what something is, not how it should look.

Well, one way is to import using RSS. Then feed it the RSS of each blog, one at a time. I’ve never tried it, and I don’t know if it picks up the comments.

I’m confused about something. Why can’t the space be created using an inline style instead of br tags?

And did you check out the “unfiltered html” issue I mentioned for admins, editors, and authors?

I just discovered something that requires me to use that patch. I use Category Access on one test site, and I went to change the categories accessible to a user. When I made the change, and hit update, I got the NO/YES request. I said Yes, but it didn’t make the change. I’m assuming after the patch plugin that it will work correctly. If not, I’ll report it here.

strike that. I applied the tuneup, and the problem persisted. That problem is that category access won’t disable a category that you’ve made available by default to new subscribers. No override allowed, which is a drag, but no one’s fault.