Will Taft
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to stop this kind of spam?Thanks for the explanation. The thing is that I use Akisment plus the three others listed by samboll above. The ones with the foreign characters changed into question marks still always get through.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to stop this kind of spam?Well adding the Cookies For Comments plugin did not help. These spam comments still are posted. Here is a copy of what they look like. I have had a dozen or so already today. Is there not any way to block them?
i did notice that the last 4 today all came from the same ip. So I blacklisted that one at least.
New comment on your post #229 “Another Reason”
Author : ??????? (IP: 91.144.186.80 , net186-80.nn.ertelecom.ru)
E-mail : [email protected]
URL : http://www.ao.by
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=91.144.186.80
Comment:
“??????? ?? ????? ????”You can see all comments on this post here:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to stop this kind of spam?@ macsoft3 – No they are not common. There are so many of these comments and so widespread that I am thinking it is a new type of spam. I see spam comments like this on other WordPress blogs all the time now. Have you not come across them when visiting WordPress sites?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to stop this kind of spam?Thanks – I use Akismet, Bad Behavior, and Simple Trackback Validation. The comments with the ??????? in their body still get through. I had not heard of Cookies for Comments so I looked at the link. It seems like it would be worth installing but I am unsure how it would stop these particular comments. I’ll install it and see if it does stop them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Still can’t make image uploader workYeah this is weird one. I have seen several blogs, including one of mine, where the uploader worked for a while and then, without any changes of new plugins, started giving the http error.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Google Sitemap and static homepage trouble.Thanks – I felt certain that this was something I just did not understand with the options, but several people have told me that they had deduced or read about the same thing. We will see what the author thinks.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Google Sitemap and static homepage trouble.Now I am told that indeed this is a known issue with the Google sitemap generator. The thought is that there is no point trying to work around it since WordPress 2.7 supposedly will have sitemap capability built in and the WordPress developers will have hopefully taken static home pages into account.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Google Sitemap and static homepage trouble.Since I posted this question a few days ago, I have talked to a few people that have told me that you should not use this plugin if you use a static page as your home page and have a separate blog page. Can this be correct? It seems like there must be a workaround for sites that have static home pages, but I can’t find this discussed in any other threads here.
Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: Turn off “Post Revision”-featureThere absolutely should be a button to turn it off. It has nothing to do with whether a particular person likes it or not. There are just certain options that beg to have an on and off button because users will be split on whether they want it or not. Customer service does not necessarily give an option when 1% want a feature. But I bet if turning it off was an option 1/3 of the people who thought about it would turn it off.
For the record, I sort of like the feature and probably would not turn it off unless I saw it impacting my site negatively in some fashion. But, I still think it should be there for those who do want it off.
The only thing I don’t like is how it saves a backup even if I don’t make any changes. Sometimes I open a page or post to look at something or copy something from the post. Then the next time I open the post, I get the big pink banner saying “There is an autosave of this page that is more recent than the version below. View the autosave”. That is annoying.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Multiple admin email addressesWell, I give up. I can’t make this work and I am sure I am just not following something in the directions correctly. If anyone is using this fix to have multiple admin email addresses, maybe you can post the actual code in the pastebin or something for me to grab? Thanks!
I mentioned that I was trying to do this to a few people and they all thought it would be a good option to have in the default installation of WordPress.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Multiple admin email addressesI am having trouble with the second part of the above code. I don’t fully understand this last part in the pluggable.php file. Is someone able to tell me exactly what to do to follow this instruction? Thanks.
// original function code here except for last return line
}
return $resultForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Move installation or reinstall?Thank you Otto. Is there any reason I should try to talk her out of using a hyphen in her path to the new location. She wants to install in a folder name that includes a dash. Like this: mysite.com/blog-name
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: A different sort of WP in its own directory questionThanks!
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: A different sort of WP in its own directory questionIf you install your blog at /root/blog/
and someone types in yourdomain.com/blog/ they will arrive at your blog.
Thanks, that is one of the things I needed to know. So installing WordPress to yourdomain.com/blog does not in any way affect the website one level up at yourdomanin.com? And if they type or click a link to arrive at yourdomain.com, they will get the conventional website that is already there?
If you change the blog address from within WordPress to anywhere other than where your blog is installed. When you try and view the blog at yourdomain.com/blog it will redirect you to the modified address and you won’t be able to access your blog again without modifying the htaccess or a table in the database.
That part I understand.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: A different sort of WP in its own directory questionI am sorry I did not make this clear. My fault! I am talking about another site, not the one linked to my profile here which is an all WordPress site.
The domain in question already has a conventional web site running on it but with no blog. We want to keep everything as it is, but ADD a WordPress blog. The site is being moved to a new host and we will be adding a WordPress blog as part of the site. There is no WordPress install on that site now. I am combining efforts with a person who has the existing site.
So the questions in my original post do not relate to my exiting site at wtdotcom.
And yes we use cpanel and can easily put set up addon domains. But that would put the blog at its own domain with its own url unrelated to to the main site. We can do this, as a matter of fact I do exactly this with my exiting wtcom site. I have a testing WP install in an addon domain.
But what I was originally asking was do we need to do it that way and give the blog its own name and url, or can we set it up as maindomain.com/blog and have no WorPress files in the root directory. We don’t want anything to interfere with the website installed in the root.
Thanks