ntoqiakt

So, it seems it was a fluke that the above code worked!!

Here’s what actually works (and added a couple of metaboxes too):

function my_remove_meta_boxes() {
	if(!current_user_can('administrator')) {
		remove_meta_box( 'tagsdiv-post_tag', 'post', 'normal' );
		remove_meta_box( 'formatdiv', 'post', 'normal' );
		remove_meta_box( 'authordiv', 'post', 'normal' );
		remove_meta_box( 'postcustom', 'post', 'normal' );
		remove_meta_box( 'trackbacksdiv', 'post', 'normal' );
		remove_meta_box( 'linkxfndiv', 'link', 'normal');
		remove_meta_box( 'linkadvanceddiv', 'link', 'normal');
	}
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_remove_meta_boxes' );

I guess my title wasn’t very accurate… however after lots of a searching I managed to find the solution. All credit goes to housebg for posting the solution here:

Comment Moderation Issue – need help

I’ll add it here just in case it helps anyone:

add_filter('pre_comment_approved', 'xko_pre_comment_approved', null, 2);
function xko_pre_comment_approved($approved, $commentdata)
{
    $approved = 0;

  return $approved;
}

Housebg, you’re my hero! ??

I spent quite a while searching for a solution for this and I posted question here but never got a reply.

Anyways, thanks for doing the hard work! I just tried it on a website I’m developing for a school it works great!!

Hey Michel!!

Thanks very much for that!

Thanks for the fix. It’s working fine albeit without ajax.

Midopicture, would you care to share your fix?

Thanks.

Ok… after some more tinkering (read: stabbing in the dark!) I’ve cracked it!

Just FYI, the whole set up is on a VPS running Debian 6.0.4 with Webmin/Virtualmin

To set up the WP Multisite subdomains, I set the default site to the WP installation and to fix the problem with the pretty permalinks and images I had to comment out the AllowOverride None in the / and public_html directories.

(actually, something similar was suggested among other things in a another thread)

So, basically, I edited the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to make the above changes and now it’s working just fine!

Perhaps I missed something in the instructions… but anyway, hopefully this might help someone else too!

Hey Mikka,

Thanks for your reply.

My .htaccess (in the root of my home site) is the one that WP tells me I should have in the Settings/Network Setup, ie:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]