DFlynn

Hey there,

It’s not blocking me. I can log in. Its all about the _display_ of the public page. For Aspire, whenever you “close” a comment on a page which has pre-existing comments, the page gets all screwed up. It is some conflict with WordPress or fault within the theme itself. I don’t know.

I was thinking that a plugin may be able to close comments and avoid the Aspire conflict with WordPress glitch. In the past, all I had to do was uncheck that box in settings->discussions, and it would be corrected on all pages affected by the problem.

Now tho, I cant do the same sort of global “undo.”

Because it’s all or none in Aspire, I’ve had to allow comments. But the spam is just inordinate. I thought if I closed comments–with a plugin–I might finally be free of that. I dont really want open comments anyway: but alas the Aspire-WordPress conflict or whatever.

I have to go into each page, edit mode, and check “allow comments.” Once I do that, the page is normal again. But I really cant go to every page and manually reset each one, one by one.

I need a way to globally allow for comments on each post (thereby correcting the display problem). For some reason, that facility (as noted above) has been disabled.

Does that make sense?

Thanks.

Thanks Andrew and thanks Marj. I am reading the link now.

And I totally concur with Keeper.

Hey Andrew,

Thanks, I am trying to activate that plug in now.

Hey Andrew,

“WordPress 3.8.1 running Aspire theme.”

http://calvinandcalvinism.com/

I love this theme and for my work I want to keep everything very simple for reader-usage. And because I am not a code-reader, I like to keep plug-ins down to a minimum and ultra simple.

Oh and yes, Ive found some plug-ins make Go-Daddy very unhappy, believe it or not. I mean “very” unhappy. 🙁

Hey Andrew,

Dont take take this as a derogatory remark, it aint. Disagreeing, itself is not derogatory. Expressing an concern is not a derogatory remark.

The reason I am concerned about auto-updates is this:

I don’t trust you folk at WordPress anymore.

I don’t trust your judgement about what you folk think is “beautiful,” about what is “functional” etc. I don’t want you folk to make changes to something I use just about every day.

Having said that, I did read the extended comment about auto-updates and how safe they are, and so forth: But I dont trust you. How do I know that you will not just auto-updating other new even more beautiful design features?

Right now the only thing I would like to see coming down the pipe that I should update or upgrade are security patches.

Now to your question directly, your answer is like a foreign language to me, and I am sure to others:

Example:

To specifically enable development (nightly) updates, use the following:

add_filter( ‘allow_dev_auto_core_updates’, ‘__return_true’ );

To specifically disable minor updates, use the following:

add_filter( ‘allow_minor_auto_core_updates’, ‘__return_false’ );

To specifically enable major updates, use the following:

add_filter( ‘allow_major_auto_core_updates’, ‘__return_true’ );

function always_return_false_for_vcs( $checkout, $context ) {
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘automatic_updates_is_vcs_checkout’, ‘always_return_false_for_vcs’, 10, 2 );

David: What?

My only working model of comparison is with Window’s products. I just dont see them given the masses instructions like this.

For what it’s worth.

Well goodness. I downloaded the new “writer” and tested and “visual view” in WordPress is not voiding the footnote links. Thats a good. I am glad you pointed me to that list.

Are there any blogging programs that do footnotes within the program itself, much like a word processor?

That would be really cool and exactly I would want.

Hey Esmi,

Well if I may then add:

1) I actually tried to word that carefully. It *seems* to me that you blow me off when you, say for example, simply, post a link. It has no relationship to my complaint or my abilities or capabilities. Suppose I find fiddling with plug-ins to be a frustrating exercise for a whole bunch of reasons. And, it does not deal with the root of my concern-complaint that WordPress makes cosmetic changes and leaves its users scrambling to find a solution. Telling a user to go get a plug-in is exactly that, in my mind.

2) That comment is actually not derogatory. I dont want to get pedantic on a word meaning.

3) No personal derogation was intended, none at all. If you feel you were personally derogated, please that was not intended at all.

As an aside, and as a more general comment for what it is worth, I often get the *impression* from the “helpers” in this forum that they think we all have expertise in code. We dont. For a lot of us, its so frustrating to be confronted with some advice to change the code here or there, or download this but which also requires a certain technical expertise. A lot of us are just point and click, me included. That’s why I said above that a lot of these plug-ins I find unintelligible.

LiveWriter is still on that linked list you gave: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials-other#essentials=overviewother