chewru

I can help you if you want.. doesnt look like anything too difficult.

What version of WP are you running? You can just add them to a text widget if you’d like.

in wp-sticky you have to mark the post as ANNOUNCEMENT to have it at the top of your home page at all times.

Try going to settings -> discussion.

Specifically :

X Allow People to Post Comments On The Article

You should allow check the comments box in the specific page/post you’re trying to see comments for. The page/post comment selection overrides what you have in settings.

okay — i’ve narrowed the problem down a bit. perhaps someone can now help!

there are three fields on the default comment form, right?

Name
Mail
Website

it will WORK ONLY IF each field is properly used, ie:

Name: Bob
Mail: [email protected]
Website: https://www.bob.com
Result: Comment posts.

it will NOT WORK WHEN each field is NOT properly used:

Name: Bob
Mail: Bob
Website: Bob
Result: HTTP 500 Error

it will NOT WORK WHEN ANY of the fields are blank:

Name: Bob
Mail: (Blank)
Website: (Blank)
Result: HTTP 500 Error

This seems to be some kind of coding issue? .. Any ideas or patches?

did you solve the problem? i’m having the same issue. if you happened to figure it out please let us know. i’m happy there are others having the same problem. =)

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have you any backup of your old database? what web host are you using? they might automatically back it up for you. if you havent upgraded for too long you might be able to get a copy of your old db — then it’s just copying the 2.3.3 install back.

otherwise, i dont think a plug-in is going to help. =)

I’m not sure I’d call 2.5 a ‘train wreck’, but I 100% agree that it was released too fast and did not listen to what appears to be a majority of people who had serious reservations about the change in design.

The admin functionality is horrible – a solution to a problem that didn’t exist. In 1900×1200 I have to scroll? Unbelievable. Same principle with widgets .. was there any large issue with the existing drag ‘n drop functionality?

I don’t like what I perceive as a snub to people who have significant quantities of plug-ins. One of the ‘dashboard’ blogs in WordPress speaks to the fact that the author believes users should just ‘get over it’ in response to whether a plug-in or theme doesnt work with the new wordpress.

I don’t like that for an in-version update. 2.3.3 to 2.5 shouldn’t drastically alter the way these things work. As far as I’m concerned, this could have easily been WordPress 3.0, and I’d be a lot less critical of the gap between the two.

I’m not ‘against’ 2.5. I do hope they really fix a lot of tickets in 2.51 and perhaps ease some of the compatibility issues. I still wish they would have gone 2.4 and gradually started introducing some of these new features, but it is what it is.

I dont think we should abandon the project, but I hope we see some kind of acknowledgement by the coders that they took a lot of creative license with the new version that perhaps was over the top.

Baby steps.. especially when you have such a massive user base. I love what WordPress represents.. I just think they missed the mark on this particular version.

Hopefully they come back strong in future versions.

wow. if you can keep up the content it will be terrific. looks like a tall task with all those daily updates! we just wrote a review for Harry the K’s Broadcast Grill at Citizen’s Bank Park (the park is amazing, by the way) if you want to do an in-post link exchange or something.

are you putting the content in the tables by hand every day or have you automated it somehow?

you’ve got a lot of competition (this looks like trafficjam.com, which is a feedburner project), but if you can build a following i like the idea.

i’d be happy to submit my restaurant review blog to fill in some of your empty spaces .. you want to show as much content as possible.. even if you dont have a lot of it.

case in point, on chewru, we have 4 recent reviews (more-tagged) posted on the front page (we have about 60 overall). when we were new, though, we posted just one at a time, without a more tag, so it filled the page with content.

people always like to showcase their blog .. i dont think you’ll have any trouble filling up the space.. but trying to get real readers to support the other blogs is definitely a tough choice.

information overload sometimes. =)

i continue to agree with the majority here. having to scroll to the bottom of the page to select a category is downright inefficient.

losing drag and drop widgets (which for me is useful because i have 20+ widgets running and occasionally have to move them around to optimize my content) is a critical error on the part of developers.

who is going to stick with 2.3.3 as long as possible? wordpress 2.5 is looking to be the windows vista of blogging.

i share the concern with the way 2.5 is going. i don’t like the administration panel, i dont like the write page and the waste of space, and i’m very nervous about breaking the 20+ plugins i have running on my site.

the admin stuff doesnt’ need to be ‘web 2.0’. it needs to be functional, fast, and above all, make changes in baby steps to ensure they work and can be digested by the community.

i applaud all the programmers who work on this with little monetary incentive, but i think they’re going to see very light downloads for the 2.5 release because of all the people out there who are just very turned off to the pre-releases we’ve seen.

being that wordpress is open-source and customizable, it’s kind of ironic that you knock firefox for being the same way.

that being said, you really can’t alienate that big enough part of your reader base. if you told me the site didn’t load in opera, i’d say no big deal.

but firefox market share, as of January 2008, was about 16%. that’s not a huge %, but as far as i’m concerned that’s very significant if you’re not only trying to build a quality site, but also trying to monetize it. of interest was that in 2007 firefox had about a 14% market share, so while it’s slowly growing, it’s growing. maybe by next year it will be closer to 20%.

on my site, i wouldnt want to blow off 15-20% of my potential users if i could help it.

best of luck with your site.