mmoncur

I had the same problem – fixing the category ids per cityofrain’s reply worked for me.

Apparently the link categories have been merged into the same list as the post categories, so they have new category numbers.

This has happened on my sites in the last few days too, and we have pingbacks turned off.

I tried removing “https://rpc.pingomatic.com/” from my list of update services in Writing Optionsm but that didn’t help either.

This is really strange as it seems to be something outside my site – my server has a very low load and responds very quickly to everything but WordPress publishing…

I just wrote a plug-in called “Future Posts” that might fit your needs – I intended it more for administrators to preview future posts, but you can also configure it to always show future posts everywhere.

This is for WP 1.5 ONLY. Unfortunately the plug-in hook I used does not appear to exist in 1.2.

https://www.figby.com/archives/2005/04/12/wordpress-15-plug-in-view-future-posts/

The problem is probably the “\r\n” between the headers, that works fine with sendmail but QMail doesn’t like it. Changing each \r\n to a simple \n fixed the problem on both of my servers running QMail.

Thanks!

I also noticed that Markdown isn’t rendered in the excerpts posted as trackbacks. Just for the record.

Actually it looks like WP is a step ahead of me. From wp-comments-post.php:

// Simple flood-protection
$lasttime = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT comment_date FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_author_IP = '$user_ip' ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT 1");
if (!empty($lasttime)) {
$time_lastcomment= mysql2date('U', $lasttime);
$time_newcomment= mysql2date('U', $now);
if (($time_newcomment - $time_lastcomment) < 10)
die( __('Sorry, you can only post a new comment once every 10 seconds. Slow down cowboy.') );
}
So setting this to every 5 minutes or so instead of 10 seconds would put a serious crimp in these attacks…

That looks helpful, but doesn’t offer the feature I was talking about. What I want is a set limit on the number of comments any one IP can post.
The scenario: While I’m out of town, a spammer tries to post 2,000 comments. Their first 5 post just fine (unless another spam tool catches them) and the rest are automatically blocked.

All of the SQL statements you posted have one thing in common: they’re missing a table name. So they’re not valid SQL no matter what the version.
Do you perhaps have $table_prefix missing from your wp-config.php file? Or did you change it to something unusual? It should look like:
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
Otherwise, I don’t know why that would happen…

Thanks!

Looks great to me! The images make it look less out-of-the-box than you think.