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I use a slightly modified version of WP for a specific purpose where it is essential there’s only one instance of each post. This “feature” is incredibly annoying. I hope I can figure out a way to get rid of it completely.

BTW, that wikis do this is no excuse. Wikis suck. There’s no reason to follow that model for blog software.

edit: Tried the plugin. It doesn’t solve my problem. What’s the latest WP version that doesn’t save revisions/drafts/creates new IDs for the same posts?

I use a modified version of WordPress in another site – I needed a flexible category system like WordPress has.

The “items” in my system are not regular posts and I need them outside WordPress, so any pointers on what these queries would look like are very much appreciated!

[Also, how can I get rid of that ‘Print This Post’. Just the icon should be enough.]

OK, nevermind, just discovered the configuration settings in the admin area. Thanks!

Just installed WP-Print. It works nice enough, but it includes pictures in the print. I want text only.

How can I exclude img from regular print pages?

Apparently changes in the php.ini file only take effect when you restart Apache. You can only do that when you run your own server. I don’t, so I’m stuck.

Are there other ways to import all the data from an earlier version of WordPress (2.2 to 2.6)?

Can I just manually export database tables from 2.2 and import them into 2.6?

@envision

Otto42 gave the solution here.

Thanks for the support envision.

I’ve posted basically the same question here and here over a week ago and have received zero response so far.

I don’t like the mini-loop solution on ‘Creating a Static Front Page’ at all, but I’ll take any solution that works at the moment. However ‘Creating a Static Front Page’ gives no pointers how to add more than ID (useless…), title and permalink to the page.

If it was 100% generic php/mysql I could call probably figure out how to call data from the post_content, post_excerpt or comment_status database fields, but the mini-loop code has some elements that make no sense to me.

<?php
$how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once('wp-config.php'); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>

<ol id="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>,<code>post_title</code> FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE <code>post_type</code>=\"post\" AND <code>post_status</code>=\"publish\" ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $how_many");
foreach($news as $np){
printf ("<li><a href=\"index.php?p=%s\">%s</a></li>", $np->ID,$np->post_title);
}?>
</ol>

Where did the %s come from? What does it do? How can I show the lead of the story (post_excerpt?) and things like publishing date and author? The ‘Creating a Static Front Page’ page does not offer any clues at all.

I’ve tried this, but it doesn’t do anything:

<?

$how_many= 5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once('blog/wp-config.php');

$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>,<code>post_title</code>,'post_excerpt' FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE <code>post_type</code>=\"post\" AND <code>post_status</code>=\"publish\" ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $how_many");

foreach($news as $np)
{
printf ("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>", get_permalink($np->ID),$np->post_title,$np->post_excerpt);
}

?>

I’ve also tried variations with the old WordPress code that I’d been using until 2.5.1 without problems. Nothing works.

This is extremely frustrating and annoying.