billrdio
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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Missing categories after upgrading from 2.2 to 2.6OK, I figured it out. Apparently you can’t change the table prefix in wp-config.php and just assume that WordPress will work – there are entries in the WordPress tables that use the table prefix that you originally set when you first install WordPress.
Also, restoring back to 2.2 and then upgrading to 2.3 and then 2.6 seems to have worked as well – the categories stay intact.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Comment spam despite “Users must be logged in”LOL 🙂 Yeah, well my sense of smell isn’t that great to begin with so I’m not sure I would miss it (except my glasses would fall off my face I guess). Plus I’ve always tried to follow the KISS principle and disable stuff that I (or I should say my author) doesn’t use 🙂
But maybe I’m being too paranoid – I’ll go check out that link and the Akismet plugin.
Thank you for all of the very useful info!
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Comment spam despite “Users must be logged in”Thank you so much!! I’ll give those a try. Would IP blocking wp-trackback.php also work? I have pings turned off by default but I don’t author any of the posts on the blog in question and so can’t guarantee that the author of the blog might turn pings back on for a particular post.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Comment spam despite “Users must be logged in”I’m seeing the same problem. I just upgraded my blog from 2.2 to 2.6 and I have this option (Users must be registered and logged in to comment) turned on. But I’m still getting spam showing up for moderation. I also have the following security measures in place:
- modified the .htaccess in my blog directory to block all IP addresses for wp-comments-post.php and wp-commentsrss2.php except for IP addresses in my domain.
- added a .htaccess file to do the same thing for everything in wp-admin/
- reCAPTCHA plugin installed and working
The other weird thing is that the spam that is getting through to show up in my moderation list has external IP addresses so either they are somehow masquerading their IP address or there is some other PHP file that they are using to post these comments.
Anyone have an idea of what’s going on?