planetthoughtful

I’m not all that familiar with the theme you’re using, but I suspect you want to look in the stylesheet for the theme for the padding or margin size settings for the post-footer class.

Experimenting with these should allow you to reduce the distance between each post.

Hope this helps.

Much warmth,

planetthoughtful

As an additional note: I tested this by logging out of WordPress and submitting a comment as though I were just a visitor to the site. That comment sent me an email. Logging back in as myself and submitting a comment didn’t send me an email. So, I can confirm that the above code seems to operate as the code itself implies it should.

That seems to be the default behavior, at least in 2.0.1.

Unless I’m mistaken, the following code in \wp-includes\comment-functions.php, should mean that emails aren’t sent to the post author:

$post = &get_post($commentdata['comment_post_ID']); // Don't notify if it's your own comment

if ( get_settings('comments_notify') && $commentdata['comment_approved'] && $post->post_author != $commentdata['user_ID'] )
wp_notify_postauthor($comment_ID, $commentdata['comment_type']);

Basically, the && $post->post_author != $commentdata['user_ID'] condition in the if statement should mean that if the comment user_ID and the post post_author match, you won’t be sent an email.

* poke poke * @ FruitFly ??

Okay, seems I’ve been able to answer my own question.

After digging around in the code it does appear that WP won’t send a copy of a comment if it’s made by the post author.

Much warmth,

planetthoughtful

@donr: is it possibly this topic that you’re looking for?

You should be able to view the topics you’ve posted and replied to by clicking on the “Member” link underneath your name in any comment or post that you’ve made.

I’ve never had problems with hackers before, but then I’ve always previously built my own sites from scratch.

This will be the first time I’ve rolled out a site using a package as widely distributed and ‘known’ as WP, so it will be interesting to see if any exploits exist that might make it a less than thrilling experience.

Yep, certainly is.

Awww, shucks, you’re welcome. Just remember to come back and help someone else out when you’re a seasoned WP veteran.

Ah, now that bites. Hmmm, I think maybe you need extra-strength tinfoil for your tinfoil hat, if you’re going to spend any time writing about government conspiracies without having to worry about Turkish hackers. ??

The minimum (and maximum) you need to run WordPress is a web server (Apache, IIS, a couple of others), PHP (the scripting language in which WordPress is written) and MySQL (the backend database).

If you’re intending to run it on a local machine, there are prepackaged installations available for both Windows and Linux (see WAMP and use your Lixux flavor’s package manager, if using Linux, to download LAMP) that make setting up the environment relatively painless.

Once installed, download the WordPress package from this site, uncompress it into a directory, and follow the install instructions.

You may have something of a learning curve involved, but it’s probably best if you ask specific questions where you experience problems, rather than anyone attempting to address everything you might possibly need or want to know about all parts of that environment.

If, by the way, you’re looking to host it on a remote web server, there are many that offer Apache / PHP / MySQL services, and quite a number that have automatic or requestable install utilities for WordPress.

I heavily suspect this is because of the following, in the theme’s style sheet:

p {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

Basically, the paragraph tag (ie “<p></p>“) explicitly sets no margin or padding.

You should be able to edit the theme’s stylesheet, using the ‘Theme Editor’ under the ‘Presentation’ tab in your admin panel.

You’ll need to experiment a little, but a starting place would be something like editing the above to:

p {
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
padding: 0;
}

This would provide a bottom margin to your paragraph tags of 10px. Again, play around with different values to see what you like best.

Note: if you’re not familiar with shorthand syntax in setting size properties for margin and padding in CSS, when you supply one value (ie ‘margin: 0;’), it applies to all 4 possible margins, being top margin, right margin, bottom margin, left margin (and the same goes for padding). If you supply 4 values, as I did in my suggestion, they are interpreted in that order: top, right, bottom, left.

Hope this helps.

I think the first impression I got when I looked at it was, “Teen girl site”. I think that’s the effect you were going for? Well, maybe not so much the “teen”, but I got the feeling you were looking for “young at heart and feminine”, or something? If so, very well delivered and kudos!

I agree about the music. Another situation you don’t want is clicking on a link to a blog while you’re at work and everyone prairie-dogging to see who’s playing the funky music.

I guess, but the complexity that wiki packages address, that I don’t believe WP currently attempts to, is how to handle competing edits (person a begins an edit, person b begins an edit of the same page, person b saves edit, person a saves edit, person b’s edits are lost, etc), and also how to revert pages back to a previous version in the event that one of your ‘open edit pages’ is vandalized by someone who thinks it’s “funnee” to trash your content.

@spencerp: Why, thank you and thank you!

I hope it will become an interesting blog – it’s a topic I have a great deal to share about, since several years ago I operated a reference site devoted to urban legends and folklore.

Again, thank you.