themarco

Thanks a lot Otto, this was extremely helpful! In the hope that it will help others here’s my final working solution:

function add_my_var($public_query_vars) {
    $public_query_vars[] = 'myvar';
    return $public_query_vars;
}

add_filter('query_vars', 'add_my_var');

function do_rewrite() {
    add_rewrite_rule('mypage/([^/]+)/?$', 'index.php?pagename=mypage&myvar=$matches[1]','top');
}

add_action('init', 'do_rewrite');

Not sure what you mean here. When I load /mypage/marco, WordPress redirects back to /mypage/. There seems to be no way to have the extra ‘marco’ bit and read it in plugin code. Well that is, there probably is one but I can’t seem to understand the whole rewrite voodoo in WP.

@michaelh I guess there’s several places where it would be handy. I suggest at least to put it here. It’s one of the pages I consulted when looking for answers on what went wrong.

Furthermore, I don’t know if there is a page dealing with this but if there’s a page about what to do when you can’t login as admin anymore it would be good to list changing the database prefix as a potential reason as well, including telling people to check out the options table and change the keys according to the prefix change.

Hope this helps!

@michaelh> That’s gotta be it! I never realized that would screw everything up. It may be worthwhile to mention that somewhere in the docs because I didn’t find it anywhere. I did see the key names when I was fiddling around but I never realized this actually needed to be ‘in sync’ with the prefix.

@whooami I apologize. I overreacted a bit.

That’s exactly what I did. I let WP create the tables. But I had to migrate a lot of prepared data from the test server to the live server which is why I couldn’t start fresh. There was a database full of posts on server A using wp_ as a prefix which needed to be placed on server B with prefix maghreb_ because wp_ was already in use on that server.

Yes I renamed all tables, Yes they were using the same schema. I took care of the home URL, everything. I’ve done at least 10 custom WP sites so believe me, I know about the basics.

I’m not the retard that you think I am. Or I wouldn’t have posted this story.

Anyone? ??

Since I see this thread still quite often results in referrers in my stats:

Taggerati for WordPress can be downloaded HERE.

small bugfix release weird wrong tags were generated in certain occasions. This problem is gone now.

I’m defining it for a page, not for a post….
It displays weird behaviour. Sometimes it works if you do it the very first time you create the page. Edit it again and it’s set to ‘default’ again. I’ve even seen it create two rows in wp_postmeta.

I’m using a custom template for some static pages. Whenever I edit them I have to rush to phpmysqladmin to fix these entries or the pages will be borked ??

I tried various plugins that were posted here but what I want appears really impossible to me but I’ve seen people do it. I just want / to be static and /blog/ to be the completely normal wordpress weblog index page. Anyone?

That link isn’t right… sorry!

This one works:

https://www.i-marco.nl/wp/wp-hardened-trackback.zip

Some tips: Make sure the script can only be called with YOUR SITE as a referrer. Secondly, add the form to the page with javascript document.write() instead of just outputting it. Add some hidden form value with a key to match to the form which is checked before adding the remark to the shoutbox. These modifications should be enough to prevent it from being spammed.

They’re pathetic. People will spam just about EVERYTHING, they’re even spamming my bloody feedback form…

I love the idea but the plugin’s output still looks very crufty. I’m not a fan of all those tables either. This could grow into something awesome though. How about adding some Ajax as well?

Version 1.1 has been released. More configurable options are available:

– feed-fetcher can be enabled/disabled
– flickr can be enabled/disabled
– amount and size of flickr images can be configured
– size and ordering of lists can be configured
– rss cache now works.