rustindy

Yup, as long as PHP and MySQL are installed.

If you’re going with WordPress 1.2x, you’ll be best off with PHP 4.x and MySQL 4.0x.

If you’ll be using the 1.5 betas, you can use PHP4 or 5, and MySQL 4.0x or 4.1x.

9 times of 10, this problem is caused by spaces before the <?php tag, but I’ve seen it caused by a goofy plugin and by a missed “;” somewhere in the PHP code.

The error isn’t appearing for me at your current blog – does it only occur in the admin section? Will it happen if I leave a comment?

bwhetstone, I have to say that, after looking at your site (and hey, blocking the popup 😀 ), it looks like just the kind of site to utilize some of the “darker” methods of internet marketing. I’m not calling you a spammer (having no proof of such), but since every single page of your site begs me for my email address so I can receive your newsletter – and not even a privacy policy! – it makes me extremely wary.

Normally, you can just delete all the files from the old nightly and upload the new nightly files, then run /wp-admin/upgrade.php. Just don’t delete/overwrite any themes you’ve added (or modified, if you’ve played with the Classic or Default themes in 1.5). Personally, I just upload everything except the /wp-content folder every night; I only delete the previous version’s files if the new version doesn’t include them anymore.

I’ve started posting exactly which files change between nightly versions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.5 – if you’ve done a lot of modifying you might only want to replace the files that have changed.

Of course, always backup your database first 🙂

Actually, it seems logical that the option to display (or hide) empty categories should be in the Admin section somewhere, instead of being a template-specific switch, so don’t worry about it 🙂

Can you post a link to your site and to the Human Nature theme on Alex’s page (unless you meant the Human Condition theme, which I’ve already found)? Thanks 🙂

Gotcha.

It’s easy enough to point two domains to the same WP install, right up until a link is clicked. Then the address would revert to whatever domain is set in the DB.

The other way would be to use Javascript and the DOM. A plugin could be written to insert a script that captures MouseDown events (or just modify the “header.php” page manually in 1.5, or “index.php” in 1.2x). If the event is fired on a link, the script would check for the domain name that exists in the WP database. If it matches, it would replace that domain with the other one. The operation would be transparent to the user, except that the address that shows in the status bar would be to whatever domain was in the DB – unless the Javascript also captured MouseOver events and set the statusbar itself with the replacement domain. In either case, the address bar at the top would show whatever domain name the user used to access the site.

And before anyone says it can’t be done, I’ve done things very similar (but not for a while). It should work in any DOM-compliant browser that has Javascript enabled. My script simply attached a querystring with the current session ID to any link that was local to the site. I doubt I still have a copy anywhere (this was a couple years ago), but I remember the technique.