Gunther

I have been using WordPress for years and I’m very happy with it and I appreciate the fact it is free and hard work of many people.

However, I do not allow any automatic updates or notifications on my PC..Norton is not allowed, neither is Zonealarm, nor any Adobe Updater product. Nothing happens on my PC or my sites without my knowledge.

I have never been hacked and I have so many levels of backup I wouldn’t care if I did. My software is always up to date but I don’t need a nag to tell me.

Peace

thanks but I don’t use plugins unless i have to. I know its not spyware but it sucks bandwidth for nothing.

you have don’t have to get nasty..i’ll use WP if i please, the way I please..got it?

ok it seems if you remove this line from

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/update.php’);

from wp-admin/includes/admin.php it does the trick, but more testing is required

or remove the url from below:

$http_request .= ‘User-Agent: WordPress/’ . $wp_version . ‘; ‘ . get_bloginfo(‘url’) . “\r\n”;

no, checked that..

I’m not using an anti-spam plugin but the comments must go through moderation. WordPress is putting a SPAM value in the table without any plugin installed.

I did delete all the spam comments using:

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = “spam”

but why does this happen …

post the link to where you had the blog

A theme switcher works with a dropdown or by creating a list of installed themes. I’m trying to switch themes by using a url….it works for the index.php..but I can’t get it to work for a specific page.

thanks – i have tried the plugins but none allow you to switch from a url – this more a syntax issue

anyone?

bump

sorry posted to wrong forum – please see advanced forum

thank you again…i will try this after work.
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i guess i should have specified that none of my wordpress files are in the root folder. that’s the way i would i like to set it up.

All the wordpress files would be in the blog folder except the static home page which would be in the root…nothing i’ve read in the codex, forums, or web clearly explains how do this – yet i’m pretty sure it can be done.

Hi and thanks
I’ve read the codex and was able to create a static front page in https://www.example.com/blog

…but i want a static front page in https://www.example.com though..not example.com/blog

I tried your plugin and this is where the problem resides:
Your plugin says Select which page should open when someone requests https://www.example.com/blog/

What i would like it to offer is:
Select which page should open when some requests
https://www.example.com/

not https://www.example.com/blog

in summary:
home page location: https://www.example.com

blog and blog index location: https://www.example.com/blog

right now i can 1) create a static page as my wordpress homepage in /blog or i can 2) relocate index.php to the root folder while wordpress is in a /blog folder.

what i still can’t do is put the static page as my homepage in the root and the majority of wordpress in /blog

thanks for any help

mrfong: if i understand you correctly, doing what you want should be very easy to do. it seems now you have the wordpress folders installed in a subfolder called “blog”…instead you need all the blog/wordpress folders uploaded to the root.

from there your gonintendo.com will automatically open index.php and show your blog (remove index.html and index.htm to avoid any conflicts).

if you prefer not to have index.php come up but instead have a static home page..you can do that with the static page plugin (or by creating a file called home.php and using the filosofo plugin).

hope that helps.