mkgago

Thanks for the reply, David, but no, comment moderation is not in effect.

It looks like I submitted this message one day too soon — by dialing down the Spam Karma settings, I’ve been able to get it to approve regular users and still stop spam.

The color of your links is determined by the CSS file (style.css), and in particular by the .entry tag. Links show up differently when they are unclicked, visited, active, or hovered over.

You need to add/alter the css tags for the other variations of the a tag in order for the colors to be changed. Do a google search on “css links” to find out how.

At first glance, I see link color definitions in these tags. There may be more:

.entry a:visited

.entry a:active

etc. etc.

also look at these tags in your css:

a, h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover {
color: #06c;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
color: #147;
text-decoration: underline;
}

Otherwise, in the <img > tag, you could place width and height constraints.

But be careful not to do that with a really big photo. It will display within the smaller height and width parameters you set, but users will still be forced to download the larger image. Much better to resize it in a photo editing program before uploading.

Final note for any future readers: I installed the plugin from the link above, but got a php error when I used WP afterwards.

The author of the plugin provides a direct download link in this comment; using that worked for me.

awesome — thanks!

I’m having a related problem with WP 2.0.3. When I edit a published comment that contains a single or double quotation mark, the quotation marks show up with escape slashes in front of them after the comment is republished.

For example, if I edit a comment that says:

>> I don’t know why you say this is a “problem.”

It shows up like this after the editing:

>> I don\’t know why you say this is a \”problem.\”

Is this a known issue? Is there any way to resolve it? Thanks in advance for your help.

thanks, podz — that worked beautifully.

Kafkaesqui, I can’t thank you enough. That did the trick.

I wish I had realized that earlier — I should have been clued in, at one point, when I saw a mistake I made while pasting in your code led to an error in “Recent Trackbacks,” but not to “Recent Comments.”

At any rate, thanks so much for your continued help on this. YOU RULE!

Thanks, alphaoide. Unfortunately, that didn’t work either…. I did add a period to the end of what you wrote…could that have made a difference?

what about simply making the Recent Comments plugin skip over all comments when they’re on a static page?

Thanks for your help, Kafkaesqui. I tried it again, but I’m still seeing the listing there… and the page is named tagboard-archive: https://www.tatteredcoat.com/tagboard-archive/

strange…

hmmm…the link still showed up in the list of recent comments, unfortunately.

Kafkaesqui, I am in your debt. Thanks so much! I’ll give it a shot.

He seems to be unable to replicate the error you or I are getting, Ajay. Can anyone else help?

Can anyone help with this? I’m using this plugin for recent comments:

https://blog.jodies.de/archiv/2004/11/13/recent-comments/

but after upgrading to 1.5.1.3, I’ve been unable to access the options through the dashboard.

The plugin itself still works, but its format is frozen in the way I originally set it up until I can get into the dashboard to play with it.

The author of the plugin seems to be having trouble figuring out what is wrong — I’m not the only one having this problem. See the most recent comments (heh) on the link above.

Here is the error I get through Dashboard–Options–Recent Comments:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare kjgrc_subpage_misc() in
[…]/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/get-recent-comments.php on line 22

I’m using version 1.1-TEST6 of the plugin, and WP 1.5.1.3

thanks in advance for your help.