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I’m happy to report this issue was resolved on my server.

It was a bad setting in the server’s httpconf file. In fact the wrong IP (the server’s IP) was used instead of that of Google’s DNS servers and that made resolving the wordpress.org domain impossible, as the local name server was being used. Consequently the connection could not be established.

Removing that wrong IP solved the problem.

I hope I am reporting it correctly, as that is what I understood from what my hoster told me.

And thank you so much for helping me sort it all out.
It works a charm now.

6 stars 🙂

Well it didn’t work with a draft page.
So on to plan b with the .htaccess rewrite rules 🙂

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your intervention and looking forward to getting the rewrite rules, that had not occurred to me to try, but probably I’d not have hit it quite right.

Concerning inability to exclude images, I don’t think it’s the table prefix, since I already fixed that in the script myself by hard-coding the proper one. As I’m no longer getting mysql errors in the log I have to assume that I have the correct prefix everywhere it might be used.

I’m thinking however of another possible issue. When I installed the plugin it complained about it not being compatible with the gd library and jpg in particular. Later I found and fixed the bug in that detection but I did not reinstall the plugin. Maybe I should, it might set some flags differently somewhere that I’m not aware of. I didn’t do it because in fact it works except for excluding images, so I didn’t think it could be related.

I thought for a while that maybe it’s due to some header images also being regular images on the site (such as in the mini-gallery), which do need watermarking when not headers. But then a few header images are only used as headers and they aren’t getting excluded either, so that theory doesn’t seem to hold.

Thanks again.

BTW, here’s a link to the site in question, if it helps: http://goo.gl/JL0pT .