Mark Jaquith

Those files aren’t meant to be accessed directly. They are “included” inside of other files. What that person meant was to click the Advanced Editing button on the “Write” screen. That gives you access to custom fields.

I think you’ll have much better luck with Spam Karma. Plus, you don’t have to modify any WordPress files.
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

WordPress 1.3 have an option for level 1 users to be able to submit posts. They won’t go live automatically, but will go live once approved by a high level user.
I used that system here: http://rebrand-democrat.txfx.net/
Over 400 posts by over 150 anonymous users.

You sound like you can handle any issues that might come up. Make sure you do a MySQL backup first (always a good idea), and good luck!

Here you go… I wrote it up “all official-like”
http://txfx.net/2004/10/29/wordpress-hack-notify-users-of-moderation/

Where are you getting that error? It looks fine to me.

What version of WordPress? (1.2, 1.3 nightly, current CVS)

Those other methods all differ based on your MT permalink setup. Try my method, which is independent:
(Note, because your MT files are in html archives, you need mod_rewrite for this, so if you don’t have that, stop reading)
First step is to make your server parse html files for PHP. Add this to your site’s .htaccess file

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Make this your MT individual entry template:

<?php
$wp_url = '<$MTEntryDate format="?year=%Y&monthnum=%m&day=%d&hour=%H&minute=%M&second=%S"$>';
header("HTTP/1.1 301");
header("Location: http://site.com/" . $wp_url);
exit();
?>

Rebuild your individual entries. This makes all your entries just contain this simple PHP 301 redirect that sends the browser to wordpress asking for an entry with the exact time (to the second) as the MT entry.
Put this code in WordPress to fix the URI and complete the illusion. Put it near the top, after the wp-blog-header call, but BEFORE any content is echoed:

/* Redirect Movable Type permalinks */
if($year && $monthnum && $day && $hour && $minute && $second && $posts){
foreach ($posts as $post) {
$redirect_url = get_permalink();
}
header("HTTP/1.1 301");
header("Location: $redirect_url");
exit();
}

So here’s the process: MT has generated a file with the exact time and date of the entry, with PHP code to ask WordPress for it. When the page is loaded, a 301 redirect sends it to wordpress with the date/time info. When WP sees that the time and date are specified down to the second, it realizes that there can reasonably only be one permalink for this entry. It gets the permalink that matches that time/date info, and does another 301 redirect, sending the user to the new entry.
Google will eventually catch on, and your old URIs will disappear in the search engine.