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Click Options » Permalinks. If the .htaccess section appears, then it is not writable. Go pull a directory listing on the .htaccess file. If it really is set to 666, it will look something like:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 xavierroy users 5319 Jan 5 04:55 .htaccess

If all three rws do not appear, it’s not world writable. On my host, it appears as:

-rw-rw---- 1 error apache 9678 Jan 5 19:43 .htaccess

In this case it is not world writable, but it is writable by the web server apache. Which means other users on the same web host can’t screw with it.

Since you haven’t really stated WHAT the problem is, I don’t think too many people (not even NuclearMoose!) will be able to help. Aside from that, you probably have extra spaces or blank lines after the ?> at the end of the file. Take those out.

Or just put it directly into index.php. The catch is it will appear above the first post (and on every page). Mine looks like:

<div class="googlesyndication"><p><script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-000000000000000";
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.ioerror.us/wp-content/google_adsense_script.html";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_page_url = document.location;
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "000099";
google_color_url = "006600";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></p></div>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> (this last line is the start of the loop)

If you really want it to be between the first and second posts, it’ll have to be Moose Candy.

I’m in the middle of writing something to address trackback spam. What I have already would have killed one of the two that were posted in this thread, and it’s already killed one attempt at my site, so I’ll see what I can do about polishing it up and releasing it.

I don’t have a left join in there at all. You’ve either got a newer version or an older version of what I have…this is what I have now:

function get_recent_comments($no_comments = 5, $comment_lenth = 5, $before = '<li>', $after = '</li>', $show_pass_post = false) {
global $wpdb, $tablecomments, $tableposts;
$request = "SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author FROM
$tableposts, $tablecomments WHERE $tableposts.ID=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID
AND post_status = 'publish' ";
if(!$show_pass_post) { $request .= "AND post_password ='' "; }
$request .= "AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY $tablecomments.comment_date DESC LIMIT $no_comments";
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($request);
$output = '';
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
$comment_author = stripslashes($comment->comment_author);
$comment_content = strip_tags($comment->comment_content);
$comment_content = stripslashes($comment_content);
$words=split(" ",$comment_content);
$comment_excerpt = join(" ",array_slice($words,0,$comment_lenth));
$permalink = get_permalink($comment->ID)."#comment-".$comment->comment_ID;
$output .= $before . '<strong>' . $comment_author . ':</strong> <br /><a href="' . $permalink;
$output .= '" title="View the entire comment by ' . $comment_author.'">' . $comment_excerpt . '...</a>' . $after;
}
echo $output;
}

The ones that have been bothering me are actually scraping the forms off my site and reading them, then a couple of hours later, will POST to the same comment ID they just scraped.