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I really hate that feature upgrades are tied in with security upgrades.

They’re not. You just have to choose the right version.

From: wordpress.org/download/legacy/ — Legacy 2.0 Branch

In keeping with the stable/testing release philosophy of Debian we have committed to maintaining our 2.0 branch with security and critical fixes until 2010. (Yes that’s 5 years after it was originally released in 2005.)

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But I keep hoping…

Don’t just “keep hoping.” Act. — Where there’s demand, there’s a business opportunity (or at least a mini open source project).

DootThaLoop: Hi, I need to know is it possible to remove the sidebar/widgets from a specific page. Is there a plugin or something that can do this? Thanks!

All you need is bit of custom code. See the Codex: Conditional Tags
(especially the example on Variable Sidebar Content).

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sweetteafilms: I’ve got the opposite problem. My sidebar disappeared on my home page and I need it back. I don’t know how mine disappeared, but it happened when my site was moved to a different server. If anyone has any suggestions, that would be great!

Don’t hijack someone else’s thread.

You’ve got multiple problems: This is from a page.

WordPress database error: [Table ‘ingramlabs_sweetteafilms_wp.wp_comments’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = ’17’ AND comment_approved = ‘1’ ORDER BY comment_date

So, if you can get into the admin panel, export all your posts and pages, ’cause you may be looking at a complete reinstall. Also, backup your database. References: WordPress Backups, Restoring Your Database From Backups, Importing Content.

In your sidebar, do you have a recent comments widgets? With (apparently) no wp_comments table, that might be the cause of your broken page.

The sidebar issue is secondary to this database error.

Use the post_custom field (it’s not documented in the Codex, yet). The following should work for what you want to do (no warranties).

<?php
if (post_custom('source_url')) {
 // if the 'source_url' field exists, do this (output the source url)
 echo post_custom('source_url');
 } else {
 // otherwise, do this (output the post title)
 the_title();
 }
?>

This goes a bit beyond the drop-in template tag structure for WP templates. The <?php and ?> is just a wrapper for PHP instructions, which are what all WP tags and functions are, so those aren’t needed if you’re calling WP template tags inside a larger function or such.

I found this in our wonderful Codex, just by doing a quick search: Combating Comment Spam.

I should have checked Trac, sooner (my bad). This looks like a WP bug…

Trac Ticket #6539:

If an installation is configured to have the home page set to a static page, with the “Front page” set but the “Posts page” unset, instead of the 404 template showing up when necessary, all pages are loaded and displayed.

(See also #6803)

On my test site (Windows, Apache 2.2.x, PHP 5.2.5), I tried that and I could duplicate your problem. Then, setting the “Posts page” fixed the issue.

You are using a static front page, right? If so, see if setting the “Posts page” to some page fixes the problem. If not, read through the #6539 ticket and try to apply one of the patches.

There’s also one from get_pages that is asking for all published pages. How can I find where that is being called?

You’ll need to examine the theme’s files and look for any template tags that would query your blog’s database: query_posts, get_posts, maybe a wp_list_pages. Perhaps check to see if you’re using any deprecated functions.

While looking at the source of the 404 results page, I saw this:

In the end I wrote a plugin from scratch to do it for me. It’s not something I’d share as it has a lot of hard coded details applicable only to Booberfish, and it’s incomplete since not all my static pages are under WP control, but I’m pretty happy with it.

Did you deactivate that, too? (Just checking)

Unless someone else can swoop in with another opinion, it looks like reinstalling your WP installation is the next step.

(BTW, you should remove that text document or at least edit query # “[3]”)

does the rule that each loop should have its own query only apply when i have the loop of posts first and static content second, or is it a general rule to be applied whenever you have multiple loops?

It’s not a rule per se. It’s just that in almost all uses of multiple loops, the reason for multiple loops is to generate different lists.*

If you’re using a custom loop before the static content’s loop, then you’ll need to save the implicit query for that page (see the example I linked to earlier).

As long as everything “works,” then you should be okay.

*An example of when the same query could be ran for two loops is if the first loop was some sort of page contents listing (the title of the post and an anchor link (#title-of-post) to the second instance of the post, which had the full entry (the content).

Will this be a totally static site? E.g., all pages, no posts?

If you’re just using pages, check the page.php file in your theme’s folder. See if has a line with <?php comments_template(); ?> — that instruction includes the comment.php file of your theme.

If so, for the one page that you want to have comments, save a copy of page.php as “page-with-comments.php”. Use that file to create a Page Template (read about those in the Codex: Pages). For the original page.php, delete the line of code I mentioned and save the file. I think that’s all you need to do for that template. Then, use the page-with-comments template as the page template for the one page where you want comments.

For the comments feed link in the footer, find the footer.php file in your theme’s folder. There should be something similar to the following: and <a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments (RSS)</a>. Delete that and save your file. That should be everything.