Ruby Sinreich

Options – Writing only sets the default for posting by e-mail.

Question 1: is there any way to require a valid e-mail address when folks register? I guess this would involve sending a welcome message to the address with a link to validate it. if I can’t force them to use a real e-mail address, this won’t be nearly as helpful.
Question 2: can I use this plugin to control the level of the user? (eg: only users level 3 and above can post comments.)

I think there’s a GREAT need for this. In fact, the main reason I’m switching from MT to WP for better control of commenters. So far, I have found plugins that force the commenter to verify the e-mail address each time (cool), verify the e-mail address once (cool, kitten), and force the user to register to be able to see the comment form (very cool).
What I’m wondering is: is theer any way to have an auotmatic link to the user’s profile go along with her comment? This would really enhance the community aspect of my blog.
Thanks in advance for any tips!

Well, mine are /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ and it’s still getting mangled. Would love some advice!

I am using Dreamhost as well, and I made this change but it still doesn’t work! I even set up custom error pages in my .htaccess file, and they work fine, so I know .htaccess is in the right place and has the right permissions, etc.
Since disabling PHP as CGI, I don’t get 500 errors all the time, but now I get a 404 error when I try to follow the WP-generated permalink. Plus it doesn’t find my custom error handling document, I guess because it’s not in the directory where the permalink should be.
Any advice?

What should the permission on the .htaccess file be?

Very cool. I may use this if I can’t get the commenters to behave…
Thanks!

Hey, I got bstovold’s code to work for my purposes just using built in variables: $single, $cat, $m, $author. Any page that doesn’t have one of those values is the front page (at least according to my formula).

That looks quite helpful, thanks. How long will I have to wait for WP 1.3? If it’s really soon, I can hang on…

Yes I have added the code to my .htaccess file. And I have CHMODed it to a variety of things, although I think 644 is what it’s supposed be (right?). Nothing works. It’s not my top priority right now. Thanks, though.

Oh don’t get me started. I’ve tried to create the nice URLs and I always get 404 errors. But in any case, this won’t help me as they are all using the same template. I want different things on different types of pages.
I think I can also do what I want using conditionals to evaluate variables like $single but I don’t know what all the variables I can use are. Is there one for $monthly? How about $front or something that indictaes if they’re on the front/root page?

Sorry, what’s “clean uri?”

I am trying to have two different templates. One for the front page (index.php) and one for viewing archived posts in a variety of ways (posts.php). I could get around this if I had a better understanding of the conditional controls available to me. But I’m a PHP newbie.

Wow, this works effortlessly. Thank you for saving me from reformatting hundreds of posts from my old MT blog!

BTW, I also tried <?php permalink_single('posts.php'); ?> but I got a Fatal error: Call to undefined function: permalink_single() ...