1.51 Modifications

Hi all,
First off, congrats on the new version, it truly is spiffy.

I just wanted to post a few quick hacks I’ve had to constantly re-add to my blog in vain hope that maybe they get adopted. These are more “annoyances” than anything else, and feel free to call me an idiot for wanting them. The hack and rationale is provied:

(All presume a virgin 1.5.1 install, because we all love the virgins)
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// wp-includes/comment-functions.php
//Line:95
if (ALWAYS_DISPLAY_COMMENT_LINK || (! is_single() && ! is_page())) { //– jrc
/* I don’t understand why the comment link is disabled for single
posts. Considering that most of my traffic actually comes from
folks viewing single posts (via RSS, Yahoo! or pingbacks), not
giving them a way to comment about anything is just silly.
Besides, the folks reading my blog are usually more interesting
than I am.
*/

// wp-blog-header.php
//Line:136
if (!DISPLAY_OLD_CONTENT) { //– jrc
if ( ($client_last_modified && $client_etag) ?
// …
header(‘HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified’);
exit;
}
}
} //Line: 152 –jrc
}
/* While I appreciate the proper use of 304, a number of
aggregators aren’t yet smart enough to figure it out, (notably
Sage for Firefox). Those aggregators simply display a broken
URL or no content. Not really the best solution, sadly. Since
I’m no where near using my 25GB a month bandwidth, I made
this an optional thing too.
*/

// wp-rss2.php
//Line: 15
<?php echo ‘<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”‘.get_settings(‘blog_charset’).'”?’.’>’;
if (RSS_XSL_STYLE_SHEET) //– jrc
echo ‘<?xml-stylesheet href=”‘.RSS_XSL_STYLE_SHEET.'” type=”text/xsl” media=”screen”?>’.”\n”;
?>
/* Yeah, I like to XSL style my RSS feeds, that way folks that
click on the link directly get some idea what the heck they are.
(I know, we all do, but there are a LOT of people out there
that think RSS is some branch of the Canadian Secret Service.
*/

And finally:
// wp-config.php
//Line: 11
// the magical defined that make it all work –jrc
define(‘DISPLAY_OLD_CONTENT’,true);
define(‘ALWAYS_DISPLAY_COMMENT_LINK’,true);
define(‘RSS_XSL_STYLE_SHEET’,’https://blog.unitedheroes.net/isb.xsl&#8217;);

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Again, thanks for 1.5.1, and I don’t expect anyone to even notice these. I’ve just been applying them to several blogs as of late and figured some other folks might appreciate them.