tomhanna

I’m not sure I understand what you’re doing with this open domain idea, but it seems like a well intentioned thing. On the other hand, domain squatting is not a well intentioned thing. Shelling out the $6.95 or whatever didn’t, IMNSHO, give you a right to the WordPress.com domain name in the first place. You asked for comments.

In the table wp_options, there is an active_plugins . You’d need to delete from there, but there is some numerical code aside from just the plugin names. Backup the database before you tinker…

whooami, I cut the useage of bandwidth from spam by 75% by converting a site from b2evolution to wordpress. So it has “more problems” than at least one other blogging platform (this one).

All the update service sends is a ping. So, even if you somehow made it post, I guess it would just post a ping, not the actual post.

Does his blog have an Atom or RSS feed? If so, you can use one of the syndication plugins like FeedWordPress or AggRSS.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/Syndication
https://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress

https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/quicktags/

Is your firewall blocking cookies? I had the identical problem with Zone Alarm Pro. I added the site by both site name and IP address to Zone Alarm’s trusted sites (firewall tab) and Privacy tab sites list before the problems caused by the firewall were completely defeated.

From:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

depth
(integer) Numeric value for how many levels of hierarchy (sub-pages) to display. Defaults to 0 (display all pages).

So:

<?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li='); ?>

Is your blog installed in the directory /news/ ? If so, wouldn’t it need to be /news/exhibitions/ to get the category? Have you tried changing your permalinks so that categories have a different layout like /cat/news and /cat/exhibitions/ ? If all else failed, given that you used to have a page and template by that name you might consider an alternate name for the category. Maybe change it to “exhibits” or “shows” instead of “exhibitions”?

If you have that many authors you might want to consider either multiple blogs or a forum instead of a blog. Just a thought.

They didn’t necessarily have to get into your admin panel to modify files. It could be about poor password security. It could be about another security problem on the server. It could even be one of those other PHP programs let them in, but it was your blogs that they wanted to deface.

https://search.www.ads-software.com/spam

Pick at least one of the child cat posts, hit “edit this post,” check the box for the parent category as well, then hit “save.”

Use a feedreading plugin to use the RSS feed. If you want it in the sidebar, CG-Feedread works great.

https://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238

If you want to actually generate duplicate posts in the second blog (a bad idea if search engine results matter, by the way) try FeedWordPress.

https://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress

Clear the cookies and browser cache? Probably somethign I’d do if I ever used a public computer anyway…