tommyill

I’d just like to second Andrew’s question: does anyone know where WordPress sets what user level (or maybe Role now?) can have an author page?

You can try this plugin:

https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/latest-post-from-each-category-plugin-for-wordpress/

Haven’t tried it myself, but the description seems to fit what you want.

Had same problem with Sitemap version 3.06b, and everything worked fine after deactivation. Where is the log file?

klklaser – I shouldn’t have posted so fast, I understand what you are saying, with that setting, registering offers the benefit of being able to post. Good point.

I installed the SEM Search Reloaded plugin, and it apparently reindexed the site.
https://www.semiologic.com/software/search-reloaded/

I’m pretty sure the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” has no effect on whether profile pages are active or not. I also believe the behavior I have described (no profile output page for lower access levels, but ability to edit profile, see limited areas of admin) was also present before the 2.0 additions of roles and capabilites.

I also need to find out how to re-index site for search. Since upgrading to 2.1 only new posts are coming up in search for me.

It seems as if that solution is only for authors and not “subscribers”? I am looking for a solution to all of the above requests, without having to install a forum to handle it. Also subscribers should not be able to see the dashboard, etc.

I am having the same problem with a site I have developed for a client. In trying to be accessible to experienced developers and novice bloggers, WordPress has failed to address the needs of either group. What I don’t understand is the apparent behavoir of the TinyMCE (even in “html” mode) and the standard editor handling input in different ways. TinyMCE seems to strip tags when you save but in Rube Goldberg fashion they are added back when you edit the post and for display only when the post is viewed on your site if you are using the_content but not if you are using the_excerpt. The standard editor saves the tags and works generally as one would expect it to. I have run into several problems where I created content in the standard editor and then my client edited it in TinyMCE, stripping all paragraph tags as well as other code changes that had serious effects. IMHO, the interactions between the two editors and wordpress output (wp_autop, etc.) is one of the major weaknesses of the system.

If anyone runs into this problem in the future, this plugin did the trick for me:
the_excerpt_reloaded

I think that may solve problem number one, but not number 2, and also I don’t think I am ready to write a plug-in for this. Perhaps I could pull directly from database instead of using the_post, etc.?