eric_ie

I’d just like to give this a bump and say it is still a problem. We have been using Akismet fine up until about 3 days ago when a few of our internal authors started getting hit as spam at.
https://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/

Any suggestions by other folks who worked through this problem?

Thanks Michael, I got something very similar to what you posted working the other day. I pasted the relevant part of the function into pastebin. The function pulls 1 post per author from a particular category. I named the category “permanent”. It also displays the author’s description which I am allowing HTML inside of, thats why the html_entity_decode is in there.

I am in need of that also. I’ve ugraded to WP 2.01 but haven’t found a way to get that done yet.

Thanks for your reply Jon,

It looks like is category is used to tell when a category page is being displayed. Since I am sorting posts not displaying a category page that doesn’t seem applicable. Good to know it’s out there but I’ll have to keep looking.

Codex reference for is_category

Thanks for the feedback. I tried to make the code inside the braces as simple as possible to test the in_category function so it is just an echo. This code does work.

<?php
if ( in_category(22) ) {
echo 'inside category 22';
}
?>

and this does not

<?php
if ( in_category('permanent') ) {
echo 'inside category permanent';
}
?>

I’ve double checked the spelling and case of the category name, there doesn’t seem to be a problem there.

That’s actually the first thing i tried. So that line looked like
if ( in_category('permanent') ) {

and no luck. Do you know for a fact that works? See anything wrong with the way I’ve written it? That’s exactly what I want to do and it didn’t seem to be supported in the older version according to this Codex page. I was hoping for some more flexibility in WP 2.0

I believe the same issue was addressed in this thread.

There is a fix on the way to WordPress but if you need it faster there is one file you can change that is discussed near the bottom of that thread. In the mean time the work around is to use the original image and scale it up. When you select “use original” it puts the full size image into your post it is just scaled down to a thumbnail size.

gotjosh,

Do you know if that was implemented in the WP 2.0 release? I am in need of something similar but a little simpler.

You should be able to reference them like this
http:/yourdomain.com/blog/?author_name=marc

or use IDs by appending ?author=1 instead of author_name.

full details on the author template page in the Codex.