robpet

It happens when you cut and paste from a word processor.

Figured it out. This =20 happens if you cut and paste from a word processor.

I had the same issue, but I found a way around it.

What I did was go into Users and Your Profile. For the user admin, I filled out the other person’s name and Nickname (this would be your husband’s info), and then below that, choose the appropriate name you want to show up under “Display name publicly as”.

Then his email blogs will show up as being by the name you chose.

It also doesn’t give him admin permissions, because it’s just the admin “Display Name”, really.

Try that, it should work for you.

rob

I will mark the other one resolved, but I also want to let all know that this also works allowing spaces (thanks to a quick google):

$comment_content = preg_replace(“/[^A-Za-z0-9[:space:]s+.]/i”, “”, $comment_content);

rob

Well, your regex works pretty well, but how would I get it to allow spaces? It just pushed all the characters together in one big word.

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rob

Okay, valid arguements. This is totally off topic of your post, but can someone either give me, or direct me to where I can get some scripting to defend WordPress, and to support it’s inherent security?

Then I may not have to worry about this at all…

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rob

Not really. Unless a Spam Filter will stop these characters. I want to stop them from being able to be entered in comments only. I trust my bloggers, but not those people posting comments.

Do you know of a Spam Filter Plugin that will do this? And what would the result be?

I’ve thought about putting those characters in the Comment Blacklist and seeing what would happen… I would add a line in the post_comment script (whatever it’s called) stating that any of those characters being used would cause the comment not to post…

Thoughts?

Sorry to fill your generous post Aleister.

rob

Just blocking everything except alphanumeric, whitespace (space bar), period, comma and maybe question mark and exclamation point.

Basicly, so the the comments can have proper grammer, but not allow the ‘ ” % $ # ( ) * ^ < > / } { [ ] \ etc… So in other words, anything that could make up some sort of code to disrupt the database interaction and access to the website files.

I can’t imagine it would be that hard, but I don’t know PHP and have no idea where to even start…

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rob

How about something that will limit the characters that are acceptable in comments? I’m looking for one like that, and that would truly rock.

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rob

The only other thing could be the URL. Does godaddy have more than one MySQL servers? Could the one you have in there be wrong?

Are you sure that your email is getting through to the mail server? Check that first, and make sure it’s there (use a webmail service, otherwise you will download it).

Also, check your settings in the WordPress Admin area. Make sure that your settings are correct.

rob