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Thank you, that seems to have fixed it.

No I know, but how would you set WP so that it sent out 410 for deleted posts?!

In a .htaccess in your blog directory.

Redirect gone https://url_of_deleted_post

In theory, anyway. How you’d do this for what is essentially a dynamically generated URL is beyond me.

Actually, if it’s “gone” then it’s code 410 ??

If something is not found, doesn’t exist, spelled wrong or is simply not there it’s 404.

Sending out any other HTTP response is outright wrong. 200 especially is wrong.

The Horse’s Mouth

WordPress is general sucks under any version 5 or less browser. The CSS the themes use don’t generally degrade well. You ought to see a lot of them in Netscape 4.x. Too funny.

It looks like something created with this site to be honest.

It’s not sending the correct MIME type out. Does it open in all browsers or only do this to say, IE?

If anyone is that paranoid about being hacked, then don’t install the software to begin with.

Just use MySpace or something and let God sort it out if it goes south.

LOL m8, get over yourself. I thought I’d try and help you; I got as far as your 550K image on the front page that was resized using HTML and gave up. Just calling a spade a spade.

Ouch, that site is a dog and I’m on DSL. It’s amazing what can call themselves a web designer and actually get away it.

This assumes you have shell access via SSH or telnet.

At the command line do (change things to suit your environment)

mysql –user=your_user_name –password=your_password db_name

then

update your_wp_prefix_users set user_login=’newadmin_name’ where user_login=’admin’;

IIIIIIIV: Sure, that’s one of the files accessible via WP’s through-the-web file editor.

Yeah, I know.

I always thought having a .htaccess file that’s group/world writable was a bad idea. The *only* way that file should ever be edited is via SSH to a shell account using pico or vi or some such. There can be stuff in them, like digest and auth info, that no-one’s meant to see.

Can’t help you with why the re-write doesn’t work. It should work from the second the rule is activated.

Thanks guys, I changed the relevant part in index.php and all is peachy.

Thanks for the heads up.

Anyway, did you get your date issue fixed?

LOL, no…I reverted back to the default theme from the Ocadia one I downloaded and it still displays m/d/y despite what I set it to in Options. Oh well, I guess someone out there wants us all to be Americans ??

Moshu may not have suggested that and it’s not what I said, but the lovely little search input box at the top of nearly every page on this site probably does suggest it. Most people on the Internet are well-trained enough now to RTFM when confronted by an issue so their first impulse would be to search using – you guessed it – the search box. It doesn’t work, does it?

So, in an ideal world, the search input box should be replaced by a message telling people to use Googles’s site: search function (which is probably 7-14 days adrift of currency) rather than getting people like me (and others) to post here and whine about it and to be redirected to a sticky that tells people to use Google.

Ergonomic web design!

Just sayin’