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On line 427, change this:

if ( isset($rss) and $rss ) {

to this:

if ( isset($rss) && (is_object($rss) ||(is_string($rss) && $rss=unserialize($rss))) ) {

My webhost actually debugged rss.php and got it working again. I can’t recall the exact changes that they made, but I can try to dig them up.

But won’t deleting wp-trackback.php cause your server to return a 404? Or not? If you’re getting hammered by spammers and you 404 every one of them, it seems like that could also drag down a server.

Okay, good idea. I just pulled 2 pixels off the center column and it fixed the problem. Actually, one pixel even did the trick.

Thanks!

Right, but the problem is specific to this post, so it’s not a general problem with the column or sidebar widths. And there’s nothing in this post other than text, and nothing is overly long. There are no long urls that jut out of the center column, or anything like that.

Just to clarify the mis-understanding about where the theme came from in the first place, Dreamhost pre-installs a bajillion WP themes when you do the one-click install. But if something gets really messed up, it should be possible to scare up that theme with a quick google search and then reinstall it.

And a word of warning if you modify your theme… Back it up before doing a one-click WP update, or Dreamhost might (=will) overwrite it.

Are we sure that it never happens with other browsers?

The opposite happened to me — two or three posts that were public got switched to private after switching to WP2. I think, but am not sure, that this happened when I edited them to change their categories. I am confident that I did not mark them as private myself.

While a Google search might work, it’s still a bit messy, and it doesn’t pick up really recent stuff. It’s really unfortunate that you can’t do a simple thing like search for an answer to a question that has likely been asked (and answered) repeatedly.

There is a ‘most commented’ plugin available here:

https://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/

You can see it in action in the right sidebar here:

https://www.fivecentnickel.com/

I had a couple revert to private on WP2 (with FireFox 1.5), as well, but am not sure why/how. I think it happened when I was shuttling things from one category to another. It was weird. My category count appeared to be off, as it reported only one post in a certain category, but I could see three when I went to the category page. Turns out two had reverted to private and, since I was logged in, I could see them (but they didn’t appear in the category count).

Thanks… That just answered it… For some reason, a couple of the posts were flagged as private, so I could see them (I’m logged in) but they weren’t getting counted. This must have gotten messed up when I upgraded to WordPress 2.0 (?).

Question: Is there any way to show a list of all private posts (perhaps in the admin panel) so I can make sure that I don’t have other content hidden?

Weird. Now it’s working:

https://www.fivecentnickel.com/archives/

Okay, I got it working — I couldn’t get the new button thingy to work, but I was able to steal a line of code from that and replace the line in question in my quicktags file.

So I replaced line 371 with this:

edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '" target="_blank">';

and then tweaked it to look like this:

edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '" rel="external">';

Which look EXACTLY (I think) the same as what I did above. But, for some reason, cutting and pasting from your code made it work (?).

As far as the button goes, when I made the changes as instructed on the site that you referenced, none of my quicktag buttons loaded. So I clearly screwed something up. A couple of questions… I am supposed to *add* those lines, right? And not *replace* them? Assuming that I add them, I then end up changing the lines downstream (once I add lines 60-66, the line numbers below shift). So are the later changes referring to the original line numbers, or to those after the changes above have been made?

It would be handy to have another button for this, as I don’t want every link to spawn a new window. So right now I have to hand edit out the rel=”external” from those that I want to stay within the current window. Not a big deal, but not overly slick.

Great suggestion, and yes, I’m using the old-style editor as opposed to the WYSIWYG editor. Unfortunately, it still doesn’t work, even with the old quicktags.js file transferred over. Grrr… Anyone have any other suggestions? This is really frustrating!