daviding

@themaster5_07 Thanks for the response.

With the New User Approve plugin (and the visualCaptcha plugin) on, I tested the WP-Invites plugin, and registrations did go through without an invite code.

With the WP-Invites plugin only, registrations do not go through without an invite code.

With the WP-Invites plugin plus the visualCaptcha plugin, the registration process seems to work as it should.

Without the New User Approve plugin, I’ve changed the New User Default Role to subscriber, so if anyone comes through, they shouldn’t be able to do any damage.

I’m not sure that I really need the New User Approve plugin as this is a new site, so there may not be an urgency to worry about that.

@themaster5_07 Yes, the wrong invite code message does come up on the first attempt. It could be that a subsequent attempt succeeds. The number of requests coming through has gone down, but they still come through, possibly on second or third try.

I found some contact information for the developer in an earlier forum discussion, and have sent him a question to ask for a download location. Perhaps he just got busy, and didn’t notice the download is now missing.

@hypothesard Thanks for this fix on version 2.0.2.

Innocently pressing the automatic upgrade button had me seeing the swimming shark again, so your advice resolved, my issue in less than five minutes.

Calitoe, you had said version 0.99.7 , and I wonder if you meant 0.99.9.7 — which isn’t listed on the Other Versions page. Is there a way to get 0.99.9.7 as a downloadable version?

I also previously had Lifestream plugin working fine on my web site, and it broke with 0.99.9.8-BETA . The last version that I had manually downloaded and installed was 0.99.9.5 . I reverted to this, and it seemed to work with WordPress 3, except that the feeds seem to stop automatically refreshing after a while.

On the Other Versions page, the last version available is 0.99.9.6 . I’ve just downloaded this, and will see if it resolves the auto-refresh version.

I’m interested in SVG on WordPress, too. (Not much activity in 4 months on this question!)

You might want to check out CoComment and/or Backtype. It’s then possible to get either e-mail notifications or feeds (which you could show in a sidebar widget, as I’ve done on my blog).

Looking at the code again, I’ve noticed that …

<?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’); ?>

… reads on the codex as …

<?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’); ?>

I’m not a real WordPress expert, so I’m not sure what the difference between the require_once and include_once is … but it seems to have solved my problem — at least in one direction of feeding the blog to the other.

I was having a problem with feeds from one blog not showing up on another block (which I diagnosed as a rss_fetch error), that remained a mystery.

I’ve now upgraded WordPress from v2.2.1 to v2.3.2, and happened to find this thread. I suspect that my problem is a timeout error, and am experimenting. I’ve added define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 5); to wp-config.php .

I had written a branch, i.e. on https://daviding.com/blog , `<h2>Recently on coevolving.com</h2>

<?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’); ?>

<?php $rss = fetch_rss(‘https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/feed/&#8217;); ?>

<?php if (empty($rss->items)) echo ”

• Jump over to coevolving.com

“;

else

foreach ( $rss->items as $item ) : ?>

• ‘

  title='<?php echo $item[‘title’]; ?>’>

  <?php echo $item[‘title’]; ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

`

… and now you can see the page load hang as it tries to access the other feed.

It’s still a mystery to me! I had thought that Magpie does some caching, so I’ll leave this change in place for a little while, to see if it shakes itself out.

Thanks, I also have Bad Behavior installed.

Thanks for the extra help. I’ve installed WP-Ban, and it seems to be working as designed.

It’s not your problem, but after installing reCaptcha, I’m still cleaning out spam from Akismet. I conclude that spammers are attacking through by responding as trackbacks rather than as comments.

Weyhan,

I really miss Post-Teaser working on WordPress 2.2.1 . (On of my readers had told me that he really likes it. It could be because some of my posts are longer than the layman actually would like to read!)

Could you post the ticket the you’re following, so that others could follow along as well. I’m not a PHP coder, so it’s not clear to me whether we should expect Post-Teaser to be changed, or whether the WordPress releases will fix everything.

In the meantime, I’ve been using Evermore.

I’ve now upgraded the two other blogs from v2.12 to v2.2. Strangely enough, the problem has disappeared.

There must be some strange interaction bug by reading feeds from different versions of WordPress. That closes this issue … although it’s still a mystery!

Yes, the “WordPress Development Blog” stuff shows up.

On your suggestion, I have copied-and-pasted the code to include a feed of this support topic on the sidebar:

<h2>Recently on coevolving.com</h2>
<?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss-functions.php'); ?>
<?php $rss = fetch_rss('https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/feed/'); ?>
<ul>
<?php if (empty($rss->items)) echo "<li>No items</li>";
else
foreach ( $rss->items as $item ) : ?>
<li><a href='<?php echo $item['link']; ?>'
title='<?php echo $item['title']; ?>'>
<?php echo $item['title']; ?>
</a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

<h2>A thread on fetch_rss</h2>
<?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss-functions.php'); ?>
<?php $rss = fetch_rss('https://www.ads-software.com/support/rss/topic/122141'); ?>
<ul>
<?php if (empty($rss->items)) echo "<li>No items</li>";
else
foreach ( $rss->items as $item ) : ?>
<li><a href='<?php echo $item['link']; ?>'
title='<?php echo $item['title']; ?>'>
<?php echo $item['title']; ?>
</a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

So, you’re right, at https://daviding.com/blog , the feed from https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/feed/ finds “No items”, but the feed from https://www.ads-software.com/support/rss/topic/122141 does.

Yet, when I paste https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/feed/ into my browser, the feed comes right up.

In addition, I have now pasted the same rss_fetch code into sidebar.php for https://systemicbusiness.org/blog (which is a sister web site for the other two). The feed from coevolving.com shows up on systemicbusiness.org (a WordPress v2.1.2 site) but not on daviding.com (a WordPress v2.2 site). All three web sites are on the same server.

Where else would you suggest that I look, as a “configuration problem”?

I think that this problem is a real bug, and have reposted it at https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/4495 .