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Yes: good luck finding someone willing to spend time coding a plugin to turn off a feature that isn’t even in the current release. When 1.5 is out of beta I’m sure your demands will be met, but switching to beta software and then demanding plugins exclusively for it just takes the biscuit.

Did you follow the correct upgrade procedure?

Burningbird published a modified wp-trackbacks.php yesterday to prevent spamflooding.

I apologise to Jinsan for ‘hijacking’ this thread. [Moderated]

You did, but that’s just speculation at the moment ?? Based on the noise you people have been making, it’s more likely than not.

Either way, there’s a demand for a plugin to switch off the behavior, so inevitably somebody will supply it. In the meantime, if you don’t want no-follow implemented in the core, continue to use the current official release 1.2.2, which is unpolluted by any evil Google-sponsored measures.

I personally feel that my location on the internet is less important than my ability to provide support, and I don’t want to be tarred with the same brush as those who post irrelevant stuff for the sole purpose of generating links to their blogs. You can call me what you want, but you can’t say I’m a linkwhore.

It just seems to me you are putting up more and more barriers to stop people contributing. First you make them register. Then you say it’s not enough to register, you must register again with a website address. Because of course I can’t edit my existing profile to add a URL.

If I do that, I expect I’ll be told to furnish my name, address, and telephone number. Oh, I forgot, you’ll already have got that through whois. What, then? Photographs?

Can I just say that like others I’m finding the use of ‘cripple’ in this context both misleading and offensive. The links still work, readers can still click on them, if you’re so devastated about your spammers not getting their tiny little drop of Googlejuice it will be easily remedied with a plugin, so get over it already.

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How to improve the development of WordPress: everybody get together and pay Matt a higher salary than CNET does, so he can spend all his time on it and we can have an official release of 1.5 ??

What you could do is contact a plugin developer and offer to pay them to implement this for you. Seriously, if you’re chucking money around you will see results faster if you give it to an individual rather than a project.

bbPress is being developed by Matt, just the same as WP. One day in the distant future, Matt may have a free weekend and be able to make it better ??

I’m seeing two separate causes of frustration here:

1. 1.5 has many features not in 1.2 and many plugin and theme developers are developing exclusively for it, so it’s natural that users want in on the action. They see so many other blogs being run on 1.5 and pimping how great it is that they don’t take seriously all the warnings about it being beta software, support will be limited, etc. This situation is going to carry on until 1.5 is officially released.
2. WordPress is growing faster than the existing developers and volunteers can keep pace with, so inevitably questions go unanswered. [Moderated]

Donncha is the WP:MU developer, his blog is here.

Looks like the timestamps are all a string of 00s, which is why WP thinks they’re duplicates. If the dates and times in the blog you’re importing are accurate, it could be an issue with the date formatting; try changing back to whatever the Blogger default is, and try again.

100 kb is still quite big, as text files go… are your entries unusually long? Have you been editing them in Word, or any other text editor which might be adding extra data that WP can’t parse?

Can’t you keep the b2 table names by editing the config? As you’re having to edit it anyway it doesn’t add an extra step and saves you having to change things in phpMyAdmin. I am on 1.2 now and still have the b2 prefix on my tables.