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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hopelessly confused: on pinging and WP versionsSo I held off on upgrading on the basis that 1.5 *should* work fine without. After some more digging, I found what I’m guessing is the problem.
Ping-o-matic seems to have buggy URL parsing. If I enter my blog’s URL directly on the home page, I get an error. If I omit the trailing ‘/’ from the URL, it works fine. I’m just not sure if the update services will cope with the redirect they get when the request the page without a trailing ‘/’…
Has anyone else seen something similar with ping-o-matic? I tried contacting them, but haven’t had any reply 🙁
In the meantime, I’m pinging the update services directly. Takes a long time to submit each post, but at least it works…
L.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment spam getting through?I don’t think deleting the spam is enough… I’m doing that, of course, and that gets it off my site, but does that cause the originator to cease to be an approved poster? If it does, great; the spam should start being filtered into the moderation queue as the ‘approved’ spammers get de-approved. I guess I should dig into the comment approval code and figure out exactly what the criteria are for allowing a comment through.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment spam getting through?I’m having the same problem as the original poster, and my whitelist is not empty. However, it was empty for the first few days after I upgraded to 1.5. I’m assuming the spammers got into the ‘has previously been approved’ list during that window and that’s why their spam is still getting through?
If that’s the case, how do I get them unapproved? Especially since there’s no way to mark a comment as spam once it’s made it past moderation…
Thanks,
L.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changing post attributionWell, I never did get any response on this one, so I’m going to go ahead and take the plunge, having just backed everything up and upgraded anyway. Fingers crossed this doesn’t blow up in my face…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changing post attributionAfter a quick bit of digging in the DB I came up with the following SQL:
update wp_posts set poster=2 where poster=1;
The question is, is that safe or does it potentially result in an inconsistent database?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: RSS feed for support blogs?Yes, that would appear to be exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
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In reply to: RSS feed for support blogs?OK, so I see the ‘RSS feed for this thread’ link, but I’m looking to discover interesting threads via RSS, not just follow particular threads (which I want to do too).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comments preceeding blog entry?Ah, now I understand how comments are showing up with timestamps earlier than the post they comment: they were submitted before the post was. Why is WP accepting comments on posts that don’t exist? Isn’t that a bug? If those comments had been disallowed, I wouldn’t now be manually deleting them again 🙁 Still, it gives me an incentive to get that anti-spam stuff set up! Thanks again for that link Podz.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comments preceeding blog entry?Thanks for the anti-spam link, that’s bound to come in handy 🙂 I’ll keep watching for comments turning up unexpectedly or with odd post times. Hopefully it wont prove to be a recurring problem…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Perma-links, trackback not workingYou nailed it! I threw ‘AcceptPathInfo On’ into a .htaccess file and boom, everything working 🙂 Thanks very much for that.