Mark Jaquith
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: comments & approvalsThere are a few more reasons why comments might get put in the “moderation queue” even though you have moderation off.
1) the number of hyperlinks in the comment exceeded your set limit. a large number of links is a characteristic of spam, so this setting can help control spam. Set this setting much higher to keep comments with many links from being caught.
2) you have a spam blacklist word that is too generic (or, if it is catching EVERY comment, you have a “blank line” in your spam blacklist, so every comment triggers that “blank word.”
Hope that helps.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Ping? Trackback?A trackback is a short message sent from one site to another, letting that site know that something on their site was referenced.
For example, you, on blog A write an article talking about an entry on blog B. A trackback is sent from your blog to blog B telling it “Hey, Blog A talked about article X.”
Blog B can then display the received trackback as a pseudo comment, and people reading the article on Blog B can click the trackback link to go to your article and see what you said about the article on blog B.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: sudden chaos (old newbie)You need to change it back to http://tomraworth.com
index.php is assumed, and will cause problems if it is there.
If you cannot access your settings to change it back, you will have to use PHPmyAdmin to go into your database and manually change it.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Common problem: Links not updatingResolved.
In “Links -> Link Categories,” the “Update” box wasn’t checked in the “Show:” section of each category’s edit page.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changing the way the_category behaves?Yeah,
the_category()doesn’t allow for that display. I wrote a plugin for you that can handle different separators between penultimate and last categories.
WordPress Nice Categories PluginForum: Plugins
In reply to: photo with nameIt could certainly be done in WordPress. You could just stick all the author photos in a directory, naming them after the username. You could then have WordPress echo that directory, the author name, and then the file extension.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Code TagThe code tag is an inline element. Try using the pre tag for blocks of code.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blockquotes problemTry this:
#content p {
font-size: .7em;
}
That’ll fix blockquotes, but of course it will introduce other problems. But I think this will at least get you started on the right track.Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Easy internal linking to other posts, and…I usually (using Firefox), right-click the “Edit entries” link and click “open in new tab.” I can then search for the entry, and be granted its permalink. Copy/Paste, close the tab, paste in the entry.
It’s also possible to link to it using a search term that is precise enough.
http://site.com?s=the title of the entry and some unique words contained in it
Or, if you know the post slug…
http://site.com?name=exact-post-slug
Yeah, not ideal, I’m just throwing them out there.Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: www.maybeithinktoomuch.comI think there should be some whitespace between the entries. They’re kind of mashed together.
There’s also no way to go to the entry’s permalink, without clicking on the comments link.
Otherwise, not too shabby.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can I host SQL database in another serverYes, as long as the MySQL server allows the database to be accessed by external servers.
When you set up WP, instead of “localhost”, you’ll put in the SQL server.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Code TagI’m guessing that auto-paragraphs is messing you up here…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment ModerationA mail is sent to the moderator, notifying him that there are comments waiting to be approved. In your WP control panel, click “Options” and then enter in your e-mail address where it says “E-mail Address (This address is used only for admin purposes.)”
The reason this is different, is if you have multiple authors. Each author gets notified of comments on his entries, and the admin gets notified of all moderated comments.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: bayesian wp plugin? captcha too?I don’t think there IS a CAPTCHA for WP yet. I was one of the people who threatened to make it, but I have not yet gotten enough spam that’s slipped through to justify it. I did some initial work, but it’ll probably require several more hours.
I’m also concerned about the impact of releasing it, because there is potential for abuse. Basically, I think that if the CAPTCHA is wrong, or blank, comments should go to moderation, not be deleted. But some people might just say “screw the blind” and force people to enter the CAPTCHA string.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wp_list_cats() problemIf you’re using mod_rewrite for “pretty URIs,” you could just alter those so that category links use a different file.