Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)

The plugin you mentioned has not been updated in four years, so it’s likely non-functional.

Pipin Williamson reviewed “Mark as Read for WordPress” plugin on his blog. You might check that out.

Does the host allow outbound http connections? Some hosts don’t allow it and it’s required if you want to install/update plugins and themes from your WordPress dashboard.

The function wp_update_comment() doesn’t have the option to update the user id. It only updates these fields:

• comment_content
• comment_author
• comment_author_email
• comment_approved
• comment_karma
• comment_author_url
• comment_date
• comment_date_gmt
• comment_parent

After rereading that section of the article, the only thing you should add at the bottom of functions.php is:

// Add a rel="nofollow" to the comment reply links

function add_nofollow_to_reply_link( $link ) {
	return str_replace( '")\'>', '")\' rel=\'nofollow\'>', $link );
}

add_filter( 'comment_reply_link', 'add_nofollow_to_reply_link' );

Don’t use

include_once('theme_admin/includes/widgets.php');

It’s clear to me now in the example he’s saying put your code below this already existing line. (which is confusing, because that’s what it is with whatever theme he’s using, but it might not be there with your theme)

The article offers bad advice (IMHO) in using the admin editor (Appearance->editor) to modify your theme files because it’s too easy to make a mistake and then create an error that you can only fix by using FTP, which you should have done to begin with. When I set up sites for clients, I almost always disable the admin editor.

Are you sure you updated your theme’s functions.php with the original, and in the right location?

wp-content/themes/shaken-grid-free/functions.php

Or are you using any caching plugins?

It’s obvious from the output that you haven’t actually updated your active theme’s functions.php file with the original (I assume you are uploading a backup).

I think we’re pretty sure it’s this theme since you modified the functions.php yourself. If nothing else, just reintall the entire theme from scratch.

Obviously (from the error you got), there is no function called once(), but there is indeed one called included_once(). So I looked at the link you posted and saw that there was indeed an include_once() line that he said to put in your functions.php, except I didn’t see a way to cut-and-paste it. So I guessed maybe you typo’d it 🙂

$page_data->ID;

Generally the loop is used to display posts, on a specific page. Are you using the loop to display page content instead of post content?

Anyway, in the loop, use

get_the_ID()

to get the current post id.