damienk

I’m having this same issue, it’s terribly slow! My Dashboard takes forever to load, and once loaded it is not very responsive to scrolling. I’m running a 3ghz mac with firefox 3, have yet to test it with other browsers and OS’s but this is ridiculous!

Is it possibly a plugin, however? I deactivated WordPress.com Stats plugin and the pages zoomed by and were responsive to scrolling. I enabled it again and same deal…

Any ideas?

EDIT: Hm this is weird. Firefox and IE on Windows XP have no problem. Safari for the Mac has no problem. But somehow Firefox 3 for Mac takes forever. Disabling all extensions to Firefox do nothing. ??? Anyone else having these issues?

I even thought that perhaps my version of Flash was outdated (since it’s only the WPstats that slow it all down, and that’s all flash) but even installing the latest version hasn’t changed a thing…

Your posts ARE ordered like this when I visit your Uncategorized page:

-Friday, October 17th, 2008
-Thursday, October 16th, 2008
-Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

“Any way to switch it so it’s from most to least recent?”
Isn’t that the way it is now?

Friday = most recent
Wednesday = less recent

WordPress allows users to use some HTML in the comments. They can post a picture in the comments just like you would in a page you’re writing.

For example, using the following code when entering a comment would show the picture.

<img src="http://website/image.jpg">
Where http://website/image.jpg is the URL to where their image is hosted online, for example their own website or image shack.

The second option, since most users are not very knowledgable with HTML is to use a plugin like the one here: http://www.trevorfitzgerald.com/2007/12/wordpress-comment-images/
(scroll down to the free version.)

It too, though, relies on the user uploading the picture on their own server somewhere, and then just placing the URL to the image into this plugin, which inserts the code into their comment to dispay their picture.

Hope that helps!

I was having the same problem, and for anyone still wondering, here’s how you fix it:

In the “wp-includes” folder, locate the file “comment.php” and open this with a text editor. (ie: Notepad or TextEdit) Do a quick find (Edit > Find) for the word duplicate and you’ll arrive at these lines of code.

// Simple duplicate check
	 expected_slashed ($comment_post_ID, $comment_author, $comment_author_email, $comment_content)
	$dupe = "SELECT comment_ID FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '$comment_post_ID' AND ( comment_author = '$comment_author' ";
	if ( $comment_author_email )
		$dupe .= "OR comment_author_email = '$comment_author_email' ";
	$dupe .= ") AND comment_content = '$comment_content' LIMIT 1";
	if ( $wpdb->get_var($dupe) )
		wp_die( __('Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you\'ve already said that!') );

You can delete this code completely or mark it as comments with two forward slashes at the beginning of each line //

Delete it if you never want to see it again, and comment it if you wish to keep it for a later use.

Once complete, save it and upload it to the appropriate location on your web server.

Ta da! Go post the same comment twice, no one cares any more.

Please note that future upgrades to WordPress may very well overwrite your comments.php that you just edited, and you may need to do this again.

From your dashboard, click on the manage tab. This will open all your posts. Click on say the first one. On the right hand side of this post editor window, there’s a box for publish status. Click the drop down pick list and select Published and then save the post.

If that doesn’t do it, are you the Admin?