thepete
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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: What is a category slug?See, now, I was thinking how cool it would be if I could use a tag like < ?php get_cat_slug(); ? > or something similar to use the category slug to determine how a particular post looked. I could enclose the standard post tags with div tags in my index template and define the properties of the div with CSS by adding them under each category slug. But there doesn’t seem to be a “get_cat_slug” type of tag. At least, none that I can find and I’ve been looking for about an hour. Pulling my hair out, even.
Did you ever find a solution? I’m suffering something similar.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Your database is out-of-date. Please upgrade.I’m having this same problem but I wasn’t even trying to update. I can’t see any tables in MySQL to repair, so I am stuck.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problem: Your database is out-of-date. Please upgradeI wasn’t even trying to upgrade and suddenly I’m getting this message. “Your database is out-of-date. Please upgrade.” it says. On my main page I’m also getting an “Internal Server Error” msg. Any ideas?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “You do not have sufficient permissions…”OK, here’s what seems to have worked for me:
emptying all of the contents of the wp-content/cache files EXCEPT for the first 6 files/subdirectories at the top of the directory.
I tried deleting the cache entirely (all I really did was rename it so WP couldn’t find it) and then uploading an old back up, but it was taking too long and replacing a lot of settings that I changed after the last time I backed up. It served as a good reminder that I’m not backing up enough!
I did find this solution in the above-mentioned thread (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53261?replies=91). If you’re looking for a solution and the cache thing I just described doesn’t work for you, check out that thread and see if there’s anything else that might help.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “You do not have sufficient permissions…”Hm, well, that’s not an easy thing for me to do seeing as my WP install has been up and running since 2004. I’ve got over 2000 posts and don’t really feel like taking a chance on just uploading everything again and expecting it to work. This problem popped up out of the blue today–just like it does for everyone else. I’m contacting my host right now, but if they did update PHP, then what? No one is posting how to fix things if the host did change things…
Ah well. Thanks to everyone who keeps posting on this topic!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Exec-PHP plugin not workingThanks for your reply, but I do have it turned off. I hate that thing. I like to see the actual code.
Any other possibilities?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Accessing Categories and More From Sidekick 3So, no takers on this? I can’t be the only WordPress user who blogs from his Sidekick…
I’ve taken to using the Postie plugin, but it’s not as easy as simply blogging through the browser.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Exec-PHP plugin not workingIt’s not working for me, either. WordPress, itself, seems to reformat my php code so that it simply displays inside a post with a space in between the “<” and the “?php” thus stopping any php from actually executing. Any ideas why this is happening?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: too-much-traffic plugin?Thanks for the suggestion, Tom. BB seems to have done the trick, generally speaking, but I’d still like to be able to shut down my site without anyone having to do anything. My host is more than happy to shut down my site–that’s the problem.
Ah well… maybe someday someone will need the same solution but be capable of programming something to do it.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: too-much-traffic plugin?Any time I hear someone say something is perfect I tend to have trouble believing them. Nothing is perfect. For instance, if suddenly my site gets really popular and I get way too much traffic, I don’t want to have to spend 9 months paying off my web host again like I had to do last year when I got attacked by comment spammers. In the end, I don’t care what kind of too-much-traffic I get–the idea is to simply shut down the site myself if I get too much traffic too quickly. This way I stay in control and my host doesn’t get involved. See, earlier this week my site got hit by spammers and my host shut my site down for the better part of a day leaving me stuck with no way to let my visitors know what was going on or anything. Visitors just got a “you are not authorized to view this web page.” I’d rather stay in control. I hope this all makes sense…
I did install BB and so far, so good, but I’d rather be safe than sorry. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying there’s no such thing as perfect.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: too-much-traffic plugin?No, but I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
I’d still rather have a way to shut the site down automatically, though. What if Bad Behavior fails? I end up footing the bill for bandwidth overages…bleh…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: mobile video blogEssentially, what I’m looking for is a way to email video clips from my phone or my laptop that will show up as a post in my blog and the video clips should also show up in my feed so that media aggregators can grab the video clips, too. Any ideas on this?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam from Mr. Skin keeps getting by blacklist–what’s going on?No I haven’t–not familiar with that. What does it do?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Category Specific Searchth3rmite, thanks for your code–that was perfect!! It does exactly what I need it to. SWEET.