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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Why are backslashes appearing before apostrophes?that bug was introduced in 2.0.3 (I think) and was fixed in 2.0.4. there are other security reasons to upgrade to 2.0.4 as well.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “Posted in” is buggyyou can edit your theme, and remove that bit. it shouldn’t be there. if you provide a link, and indicate which theme you’re using, i (we) can be more specific.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: New to word press, what do you thinkso austere!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to include Pluginsalso, some plugins have special instructions unique to them. sometimes you need to do more than just install the files in the plugins dir and activate them in the admin area.
docs on plugins are here > http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins it covers the installation process.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Requesting Assistance with Server Error 500Which plugin was it?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Why are backslashes appearing before apostrophes?using 2.0.3? upgrade to 2.0.4.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Private Category and postsfirst of all, I recommend you experiment with it a bit. with a default installation of wordpress, and new user is set to the Subscriber role. I’m not sure how category access behaves if you have your new user set to be another role, like Author. It may be specifically coded for Subscribers. Like I said, experiment.
Subscribers are meant to be people who can read but not write posts for the blog. It’s typically the role you assign when you want to require someone to register before they can comment on a post.
I recommend you keep your new users set to Subscriber. You set that in Options > General. Then, in the Category Access options, consider New Users to mean Subscribers and configure it appropriately. As far as I can tell, that will achieve what you want.
something else you can do is create an ’empty’ theme, and then from the main site, just use a php command (file_get_contents for example) to fetch the content from the blog and display it. I’ve done something like this before.
take a look at http://mybeausejour.com/wordpress/, and then look at http://mybeausejour.com. I use a theme in wordpress that only displays article titles and content, and then the main site just grabs the articles and spits them out. All you need do to your existing site is add some code to fetch what you want, and build the appropriate links in your navigation to a page that will do that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Private Category and postsI’m not sure what you mean. Category Access has settings for guests and subscribers, as in which categories they can automatically read. What else do you want to do with subscription registration?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Private Category and postsCategory Access allows you to specifically select who can read categories. You can control what guests can read, what new subscribers can read, and then I think by default, authors etc. can read everything. There are some user level controls as well I believe.
http://www.coppit.org/code/ (scroll down to the bottom)
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: “The Best” Hosting, Hands Downcpanel? just a little info. I would never use cpanel. I would only choose hosting with someone who offer a chrooted environment. With that, you’re given your own isolated section of the server. Without it, other customers can see files of yours, and if you’ve given write permission to guests (chmod 777), guess what they can do to your files and folders?
unless cpanel has changed recently (I haven’t honestly looked at it a while) I won’t touch it. it might look cool, and be easy to use, but in my opinion, it’s fundamentally flawed from a security perspective.
I would welcome the news that cpanel now offers a chrooted environment for virtual accounts, and which version does that. Anyone?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I want to redesign my blogspencerp, you are getting sleeeeeeepy ….
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you restrict users to write to only 1 category?have you contacted the author? perhaps he/she is interested it making it work with 5, or has some insight?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you restrict users to write to only 1 category?Well, Category Access restricts by user_id, but it also restricts reading (it’s main purpose). Perhaps you can bribe the author with a wild night at your place and all the kool-aid he can drink, and he’ll make you something that only restricts posting instead of reading. But I still think that doing it with roles is more powerful/flexible.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: is there a way to capture referrers on the comments?yeah, what whooami said. I think google analytics is smart enough to trace a user’s visit. I could be wrong about that, it’s just a rumour I heard while hanging out in a back alley looking for pop bottles. But even that still isn’t as direct and simple as you’ve requested.
It would actually be an interesting potential feature, if each visitor had a profile of data accumulated like the referer and perhaps platform etc. That would be a lot of data on a busy site. It was years ago I stopped caring about that sort of info. A lot of time wasted in my opinion. Just give me the broad strokes.