Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)

OK, let’s try something different. Here’s the most basic code to only prevent your post from showing as is_single (similar to making all your posts for a particular category private).

So in my case, when I go to my blog page (or category page), then I see the post title. When I click on the link to go to the single post page, I get a 404 (if the post belongs to the excluded category) – ID 1 in my case, which is generally the Uncategorized category by default.

function exclude_single_post( $query ) {
    $excluded_category_ids = array(1);
    if ( $query->is_single() ) {
        $post_categories = wp_get_post_categories( $query->query_vars['p'] );
        foreach ($excluded_category_ids as $category_id ) {
            if ( in_array( $category_id, $post_categories ) ) {
                $query->set( 'p', -$category_id );
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_single_post' );

What was happening before you disabled plugins? Was it just not working for the single post page?

And have you disabled any plugins you may have tried?

The only thing I can think of (in regards to your original question) would be to use the WordPress wp_insert_post_data filter hook and remove the port (using a regex) before saving the post to the database.

Or if you’re “echo” adverse, you could do it like this: 🙂

<?php
$query = new WP_Query( array ( 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'DESC', 'showposts' => '1' ) );
if ( $query->have_posts() ) :
?>
    <?php $query->the_post(); ?>
    <li><?php the_title(); ?></li>
    <div class="entry-content">
    <?php the_content(); ?>
	<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-links">' . __( 'Pages:', 'scrappy' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
    </div><!-- .entry-content -->
    <span class="media-posted-on">
    <?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'scrappy' ), '<span class="media-edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
    </span>
<?php
endif;
?>

Or even simpler:

<FilesMatch wp-login.php>
Order Deny, Allow
Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

If ad rev share is an important part of your business (or even if not), I’d got with WPMU DEV. Besides being familiar with the company, the plugin appears to have a substantial amount of downloads and a good rating.

But looking on the WPMU DEV forums, I see this comment:

Q: The Ad Sharing plugin looks perfect for sharing revenue across authors, but I only need it for a single wordpress install, not multisite. Is there a plugin like that?

Essentially I’d like to have all my authors get a percentage of the income from ads on the blog.

A: Unfortunately not. the ad sharing is designed for multiple sites users, not sharing with users on a single site.

They go on to suggest trying a plugin you already mentioned (note, the comment was from early this year):

Revenue Share for Authors (RSP for WordPress)

So I’d check with WPMU if the plugin is truly for multisite only (if you’re not running multisite).