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If you can’t find the plugin here’s the PHP code. This will work on any page using the ‘Loop’.


<?php
// These two lines go above your loop
$i = 0;
$number_of_posts = 5;
?>
// Now your loop starts
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php
// If it's a 5th post show the ad otherwise show a post
if ($i%$number_of_posts==$number_of_posts-1) {
// AD RELATED CODE GOES HERE
} else {
// REGULAR POST TAGS GO HERE
}
$i++;
?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
// Page continues on
...

The // lines can removed.
The $number_of_posts can = whatever.

The WP-PRO mailing list if the one you’re looking for. More info on WP mailing lists can be found at http://lists.automattic.com/

This is the main support page for comment spam.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam

If it doesn’t answer all your questions post back here so we can answer them and update the Codex.

This is the plugin you’re looking for. Good timing really, it was only released two days ago.

http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2005/03/03/where-the-hell-are-my-comments/

Rather than fork bbPress I think we should fork Matt and Ryan. I don’t know if cloning is still legal here in Canada but if not, I know the perfect dark alley.

Everyone would win. By competing clones against developers we will get even more amazing code. Plus, the winning group (clones or originals) would get to absord the other, like in that Superman movie.

I thought it wasn’t really necessary to run the upgrade script but I sure got caught by that. I was moving from beta to beta every few weeks and at somepoint IE stopped being able to view my site although it worked fine in Mozilla. It turns out the content-type was no longer correct in the database and IE didn’t know what to do with my site (heck, sometimes I don’t either). I ran the upgrade script and everything works perfectly. Lesson learned, I now bow to the upgrade script.

The database is where all your posts and WordPress options will be stored. For WP to connect to your database it needs to know 4 pieces of information.

The short story being if you don’t know the required values then you need to email your host. Tell them you’re going to install WordPress and ask what are the values for:
your database host
your database username
your database password
your database name

Once you have those values you can edit the file. Without them you can’t get any further.

No problem. What you’ll want to change is one of these 3 lines in your style.css

#rap { width: 620px; } <– Width of your whole page
#content { width: 469px; } <!– Width of your posts
#menu { width: 120px; } <!– Width of your sidebar

So for instance, you could change #content to #content { width: 450px; } That’ll make your post area a little smaller so your sidebar should fit. You’ll have to play with that number, 450px is just an estimate.

Unfortunately, there’s a bigger problem to fix first.

If you look at your sidebar you’ll see that it’s a mess of

and
• tags. The problem is they’re not properly closed and that can cause major display problems. You need to go through your sidebar.php file and make sure the tags open and close properly.

You can see examples of how lists work at http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/lists/

To make it easier to work you might want to make a backup of your sidebar.php and then erase most of your sidebar content. Just focus on getting one section, say the Categories, laid out properly. Once it’s working you can add back in the other sections following your working example.

Oh, when you get the category formatted properly, if the sidebar is still below the posts you might want to change the #content to #content { width: 400px; } so there will definitely be enough room to display side by side. Once it’s all figured out you can increase this value upwards until the sidebar is pushed down. That’s the ol’ brute force method to getting the width right!

It’s probably a little confusing but give it a try and let me know how it’s going.