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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Moderate/Ban commentersThe fact of the matter is that IP checking DOES work if you put them there, so just don’t question it, yeah? 😉
Ha! Okay. I just want to stop this one jerk, for the time being, so I will try it.
Thanks.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Moderate/Ban commentersOtto42,
It says this above the Comment Blacklist box —
This is a list of words that you want completely blacklisted from your blog….
It says nothing about being able to paste IPs there. Should it say something? If so, why doesn’t it?
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whoami,
use spam karma
I guess I may have to…. Or Akismet plus Bad Behavior….
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Moderate/Ban commentersWendyhouse,
That’s what I’ve been doing as well. But now I’ve been caught in the web of some piece-of-garbage spammer, and I’m in hell. In the past few days I’ve had to delete 230 of his/her comments.
None of them went live, because I do what you do and force them into a moderation queue. But at this point it is a HUGE nuisance.
Is there no simple way to ban a comment-spammer’s IP? Most of the time my system works fine for me, but all it takes is one machine slamming my comments-moderation-queue to create a large amount of pointless work for me. It would seem that there
would be some weapon for fighting this. They’re all from the same IP.Is my only answer to use a plugin like Askimet? I’ve already had to disallow pings because of literally thousands of pieces of spam that had to be moderated (i.e. deleted).
It’s so frustrating. I wish there were some way to get even with these pointless scavengers….
But I’d settle for finding a way to keep them from wasting my time.
–dogra
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Changing Permalink Structure – QuestionsGreat! That’s the plug-in that looked the best to me. I was just concerned that it might not work on the newest versions of WordPress, as the last comment on that page is from a year ago.
I’m definitely gonna go with it.
You rock, Moshu!
Thanks for all your help and your quickness in responding.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Changing Permalink Structure – QuestionsThanks Moshu. I made the change you suggested and it got rid of the weird hybrid urls, but the recent post links still connect to the old “ugly permalinks.”
Like —
Is there a way to fix that code so that the recent posts links will recognize and connect to the “pretty permalinks”?
I’m think Maybe I should just use a customizable plug-in for generating recent posts in my sidebar.
Is there a plug-in that you or anyone else would recommend?
Most of the ones I’ve found mentioned here don’t seem to have much development activity in the last year. And i’m not even sure they work with WordPress 2.0.
Please advise, if possible! =o)
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Changing Permalink Structure – QuestionsMy friend designed the site for me, adapting it from the kubrick theme.
I believe she just copied some code from somewhere (it’s not a plugin).
Here’s the code —
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Changing Permalink Structure – QuestionsMaybe there’s something wrong with the language in my “Recent Posts” code?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Changing Permalink Structure – QuestionsI am afraid, you are.
Thank god, because that made no sense to me at all. I figured it had to be just MY server that mattered, in terms of generating the new urls.
Here’s the messed up example from my blog —
I am on this post page, for instance:
If I click a link on the sidebar, like:
“Robert Altman 1925-2006” under RECENT POSTS
…it will take me to the right page, but this url appears in the address bar:
http://dogra.tv/2006/12/tabu/?p=71
In other words, when it’s connecting from a post page, rather than the home page, it just keeps the pretty permalink of the referring post and tags the ugly permalink of the new post onto the end of it. Making for a very confusing url in the address bar. Bleh.
If I then click the post title, it will connect to the proper permalink:
http://dogra.tv/2006/11/robert-altman-1925-2006/
I hope this makes sense….
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Notable versus SociableI’m going to bump this DOA thread to give it one more chance for discussion….
I noticed in another thread —
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/60276
— that Yosemite said he has switched from NOTABLE to SOCIABLE because he couldn’t get his pages to validate with NOTABLE.
Again, would those who have used both be willing to make a brief post about the pluses and minuses of these two similar plugins?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: import posts from wordpress to wordpress?Bless you, HandySolo. Now if only I had a time machine….
Apparently my search-fu is VERY weak.
At least now I’ll know what to do if it comes up again for me or any of my friends.
Thank you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: import posts from wordpress to wordpress?It’s a shame that a plugin allowing a user to import, via the web, past posts from Blogger and WordPress.com accounts exists, but there can’t be a similarly simple way to move posts from one personal wordpress blog to another.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permissions settings for the theme-editor?Help! Is there anyway someone can make this clear to me?
I’ve been trying to make this work for weeks. I’ve been getting the same message: “If this file were writable you could edit it.”
I have tried to change the permissions for the individual themes to 666 as you said. I tried doing it in FireFTP by rightclicking on the appropriate file, selecting properties, then unclicking execute so that I get the 666 setting. It didn’t change anything. So I went into the file manager in cPanel and did the same thing. This time my website would no longer load. I have no idea what’s going on.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: import posts from wordpress to wordpress?devils advocate,
Did you have any luck with this?
I want to do something similar but don’t see an option on the WordPress admin-panel IMPORT tab for importing from another WordPress blog.
If I could do this, it would save me a ton of, seemingly, unnecessary work.
I’ll try to check out the helpful links posted by podz but would appreciate a followup post if you figured some things out.
One thing I’m concerned about is losing comments, which seems to have been a problem with some others who have used WordPress’s import function….
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Recent Posts Not Showing up on Front/Home PageYou’ve been a huge help. I was just overanxious to get my page looking like it had before the switch, now I see that on the plug-ins page there are links to a simple FAQ for various plug-ins, as well as a link to WP-Support on the subject.
I also peeked at some of the template files, and they don’t look as complicated as I initially thought. Still, a lot to absorb in the coming days….
Just took a glance at your blog; it looks great! Keep on truckin’.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Recent Posts Not Showing up on Front/Home PageBWatts — Thanks again. I activated the Link Tile plug-in and they showed up. You’ve really helped me get rolling.
Some of the terminology is new to me (okay, a lot of it). When you say “make sure the appropriate call appears in your column template,” what does that mean? Are you refering to a piece of code in the template? As you conjectured, I didn’t actually need to do that. Just trying to understand some of the issues here. I haven’t poked around in any of the code yet.
Denis – I will try to do that this weekend.