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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Corrupt link in commentsSame trouble here! Excellent plugin solved a nagigng problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Author of Post MissingVery cool! I was able to make them Contributors again with your method by creating another Author account I control.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HELP!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Author of Post MissingI know if you delete a user you lose their posts but you can get around that by editing the user first, changing email information, saving, and then deleting them and your blog loses nothing.
I wonder if I had gone in and changed the email addresses for the Authors, saved them, moved them down to Contributor, then gone in and reinstated their email address — if that might have been a wonky backdoor workaround that would have worked or not?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Author of Post MissingMichael —
I took your advice to switch all the users I moved from “Author” to “Contributor” back to “Author” and it worked!
But why did it work?
What difference does it make to K2 if I change user status? Is it a write/edit permission issue or an post-publish edits issue?
I checked around line 74 in the loop but didn’t get much out of it — if you have a specific line I should be looking at or messing with, please let me know.
How will this work in the future?
Users are required to register on my blog to comment. So the default user status is “subscriber” for new registrations and then I later move them up to “Contributor” or “Author” status if they want to write for the blog. I don’t think I’ve had any trouble with changing a status before today, but today is the first time I took away rights instead of adding them.
I know there are Plugins out there to deeply manipulate roles and permissions but I don’t have them installed so that isn’t part of it.
Thanks for the link to my question over in the GetK2 forum.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Author of Post MissingI used to be able to click on the Author name and then be taken to the Author’s page:
http://urbansemiotic.com/author/boles/
http://urbansemiotic.com/author/chris/
http://urbansemiotic.com/author/mik/
You can’t get to those pages now unless you know the URL because the name with the link is missing.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Author of Post MissingHi Michael —
That sort of works for the Default page though it doesn’t then list the Author when you click to view the post page with comments and the Author’s name isn’t hotlinked to their homepage. I’m sure all that used to be enabled by default in my setup with K2 and the other themes. I touched no code or pages, but I still lost this functionality. The only thing I changed was the User attribute for about four people from “Author” to “Contributor.”
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedComments are now magically beginning to trickle in again without getting caught as Spam and I did nothing — NOTHING! — on my end to change anything. Yay, it works!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedLet me re-cast my problem: “The only way I can see new comments is to have Akismet active and mark the new comments as Spam so I can release them for publication as not being Spam.”
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedNo, the Blacklist had several email addresses but none of those email addresses have posted any new messages since this started happening.
The people who are being marked by Akismet as Spam or by WordPress as Spam were not on the Blacklist at all.
I cleared the Blacklist and the problem still persists.
I don’t have any other anti-Spam plugins running.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedI deleted my Blacklist email addresses and Akismet still caught a valid comment as Spam.
The problem is not the same at all with Akismet disabled and deleted.
Akismet Disabled and Deleted: No new comments appear though they are somewhere.
Akismet Active: All new comments appear marked as Spam.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedWhen I disable and delete Akismet I get new comments that I never know are there until my blog regulars ask me what happened to their new comment.
I then go look in Moderation and find no new comments anywhere.
I have my forum set up that if you had a previously approved comment you don’t get moderated and are immediately posted live.
I get emailed when there is a new comment posted and when there is a comment waiting for moderation. None of that happens anymore. I don’t get any notifications about new comments or pending moderation needs with Akismet installed or uninstalled.
When I reinstall Akismet I am finally able to see the “missing” comments my readers were asking about — but they are only displayed two at a time by Akismet instead of all of them at once.
I clear them out of Akismet as “Not Spam” two at a time since that is only as many as Akismet will show me at one time.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedHi macmanx —
Akismet only identifies newly submitted comments as Spam.
Once I get the comments out of Akismet by marking them “Not Spam” they are fine.
If I disable and delete Akismet, comments are submitted and accepted by WordPress but I cannot see them until I reinstall Askismet… and then I see the all new comments… all marked as Spam.
As for contacting the developers — I have — Matt Mullenweg invented Akismet and he was the first reply to me here.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedThanks for the help, macmanx!
I have had several email entries in both Moderation and Blacklist for several months now without any trouble then… two days ago… something broke and all comments are being identified as Spam and nothing was changed in either the Moderation or Blaclist listings.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Akismet Catches Every Single Comment While DeletedThe problem started with Akismet two days ago suddenly grabbing every comment posted and marking it as Spam.
If Askismet is identifying every single comment as Spam then that’s an Akismet problem, isn’t it?
If not, what other Plugin would be putting comments in the Akismet Spam bag? I have no other Spam or Bad Behavior or other Plugin running.
I believe this is an Akismet problem, because the only way to get comments posted on my blog now is to reinstall Akismet after deleting it — otherwise the comments do not show up at all. If I don’t reinstall Akismet then I don’t get my comments.
The only way to get comments to post on my blog is to have Akismet running and to mark the messages as “Not Spam.”
I have had email addresses in both my Moderation and Blacklist windows for a long while now.
Anything else I should check because right now I have to have Akismet running to get any comments at all.
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