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I’d like to second the need for this feature in a community I run. Unsurprisingly the internet brings some personalities out of the woodwork that don’t get along well.

Any ideas on how to implement this would be very much appreciated.

Otto, thanks again! It was the echo that I needed. Sorry that I didn’t catch that the first time. I’m really operating out of my league, but the great news is that it’s all working now: https://purplepapaya.net/etsy/editors/

Now I just have to get them to write their bios. Thank you so much, Otto42!

Thank you, Otto! I am trying to get this to work now. Does

function get_user_description($ID) {
$user = get_userdata($ID);
return $user->description;
}

go into my theme’s functions.php? That is what I’m trying now. I also put <?php get_user_description(3); ?> into the page.

I too am waiting with dreamy eyes and crossed fingers. Um, hopefully that’s encouraging. Go marke1, go!

I’ve decided to remove the marks manually in WP, which is lame, but it’s not as bad as you might think.

Okay, I made up some sql and it worked, but the question marks remain. Currently all collations are utf8_general_ci. Should I make them just UTF-8? Sounds risky. I tried changing the encoding in WP to utf8_general_ci, but there was no change.

(Sorry to post so much. I just want to keep people updated.)

Thank you complich8 and moshu.

Ok, I managed to change it in general for the database and one by one for each table. Operations tab at the top. I’ll work on figuring out the sql language for a general command.

All right, on the host the collation is “latin1_swedish_ci” for some reason. I need to figure out how to change this, preferably in bulk. I’ll be checking back here in case anyone can tell me, and I’ll be looking on Google at the same time.

This should fix it!

As far as I can tell, the mark substitutes for the extra space. I always add two spaces after a period. It’s an old habit.

I’m checking the hosts and their settings now.

Okay, I’ve figured out a bit more about this problem:

This is the mark that keeps popping up: ?

I can see it in FireFox 1.5.0.2, but not in a 3 month old IE7 beta. Apparently some others can’t see it in FireFox.

I’m still baffled!

Thanks anyway, FruitFly. I will use that in my sidebar if I decide to organize things this way.

Hmm, that appears to be for excluding entire posts. I probably wasn’t clear enough. I am looking to avoid displaying the name of the category only–the post should be displayed. Here is a full example:

Post A is in categories “Sports,” “Entertainent,” and “Level 1”. Ordinarily, at the bottom of the post, one could read “Posted in Sports, Entertainment, Level 1”. I would like only this displayed: “Posted in Sports, Entertainment”.

Tomorrow, I will look at the page MichaelH provided and try change it to apply to my case. I’ll report back!

Thanks so much! I will look at that ASAP (in a couple of hours).

Also, your site looks fine in my IE.

This happens to me a lot when the sidebar is too wide. FF adjusts somehow, but IE bumps it downward. Try making sure you don’t have any long text and that the sidebar’s CSS isn’t making it too large either. Also, bad commenting out can do this too. If you use html commenting, check that too.