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Yep. Fatal error on wp-admin/network/*.php

Are you trying to do this via the wordpress “menu” administration? This theme was developed prior to that.

Actually, the top menu is really a widget area. But in the version here on www.ads-software.com you have to edit the navbar.php file. If you download the version here: https://bitfreedom.com/dragonskin/ you can edit the top navigation bar in the widgets area.

As for the Pages tab, they should appear automatically when added and visible (as WordPress pages), but child pages may not align in a way that makes it obvious they’re child pages because the menus are centered.

I haven’t had the time to meet the requirements of submission for WordPress 3.x so there hasn’t been a new submission. However, there are a couple of options:

1) Header images are supported in the current theme here–just upload a GIF images to wp-content/themes/dragonskin/images/header.gif

That’s not good if you’re running multiple sites (wpmu), so…

2) You can download my latest version (that I use) which was not approved for listing at www.ads-software.com due to not meeting various requirements:
https://bitfreedom.com/dragonskin/

It supports header images in the admin panel. Please note that the header image for this theme *replaces* your title text and was designed to support site logos.

For an example: https://heroesonly.com/

Thanks Andrea. I’m impressed by your quick response and your fortitude for helping out people on the forums for so many years. It’s appreciated.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wpmu-recent-posts-widget-links-to-other-widgets-like-this

Are you going to be taking over for this plugin?

Thanks, definitely will try to simplify my register_sidebar() call first and see if it fixes it. I’ve never tried using the theme testing plugin, but I guess I’ll start now.

No licensing problem, the reasons for the rejection are here: https://themes.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/2811

With that said, if anyone has an idea of why it’s complaining about code in core widgets.php, I’m interesting in hearing about it.

Yeah, bigger text. I like font-size: 14px too, but x-large or 120% or 150% works too. I think generally speaking most sites have text that’s too small these days.

inline-blocks were a little to inflexible to support a fluid-width theme… don’t know why. So I went back and floated both columns.

Thanks, maybe I’ll drop them a note and tell them how I feel as a hobbyist.

Ok so as a follow-up to my pointless complaint… it’s not exactly the problem. The problem is I deleted the comments PHP file because I noticed WP automatically inserts the comments for me anyway. So I’d like to change my complaint: why can’t I just use WP’s functionality when possible? Why do I need to reproduce that functionality in theme code if I don’t want to do anything different?

If it’s name is randomized, or if the file doesn’t even exist, it can’t be found, except only by chance.

Then how does a user find it? Take greasemonkey for example–you can just write a script to pretend to be a user anyway. And if you send it to a user’s email, well we know that bots already know how to activate themselves.

Having a static file to process comments is a MISTAKE, a weakness, and a security hole.

Well maybe. Maybe not. It might be easier to lock down wp-comments.php if it’s more isolated. I think that any user that needs to access the comment function needs to have a form that allows them to submit to. (We’re still talking about asymmetric web-design, right?) So I think it might be much the same thing.

I agree with you 100% that spam is a security problem. (But I think you should submit it as a feature request anyway.)

Ipstenu explained it better than I did. If it’s simply a matter of redirection, it’s arguably easier to get around than something like a captcha. Captchas (used to) work because it required an extra computer (your brain) which was very fast and good at pattern matching, therefore leveraging something a human can do easily that a machine cannot do easily. As far as I can tell on various software, even captchas aren’t working well anymore and if they’ve actually figured out how to do the pattern matching as well as humans, then I don’t know what to do next.

If it’s working for you, then great. But I think this is a case that obscurity is part of your formula–I think part of the reason it’s working for you is that no one wants to write the code just to crack your sites (yet?). I think the moment you include it into WP, it’ll do little to prevent the spam for everyone, and just make you like the rest of us ??

Oh by the way, thanks for sharing it. I’m not trying to knock down your idea. For the people who find your code, I’m sure it will help. My opinion aside, if you file a bug to WP on it, then maybe your idea or something similar can get included: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/

Sorry, I disagree–if that becomes standard wordpress then it will be automated. It takes nothing for a bot to know how to go to one page before it goes to the next page, just like a human. It got rid of your spam because you’re the only one doing it.

Instead of floats, I’m using inline-blocks and that seems to work perfectly.

It’s not difficult to just copy twenty-ten and make changes if that’s what you want to do. The real complexity is when a new theme developer is trying to build something from scratch, goes to look at twenty-ten and uses, for example, the comment code. It seems pretty convoluted with stuff peppered in the functions.php file.

I could be wrong, I haven’t looked at it in a while.