voodoologic

Hmmm. If you have the user login name by the time you’re firing your plugin, could you use the $wpdb class to query wp_users and wp_usermeta to retrieve the information yourself?

All the best,

VoodooLogic

Hi ratbastid – sounds like you want to take a look at the doc at this link:

Alphebetizing Posts

Hope this helps,

VoodooLogic

@bruce21: sounds like a great opportunity to learn how to build your own plugin that does whatever-the-heck you want to posts in terms of stripping out formatting etc.

Or, you know, go use another blogging tool – but I can’t help suspecting that it won’t take you long to find something with that application that will have you leaving quivering posts of outrage in their support forum too. *Shrug* Some people are just like that.

The nice thing about WordPress is that with a little bit of ‘hey, I can do that myself’-ness, you can customize the hell out of it, and make it do pretty much what you want. Again, you can probably do the same with another tool, too.

It’s all about how you look at it.

VoodooLogic

I think this has something to do with your permalink settings. At least, it seems significant that if I click on the top post’s link, it goes to “https://2listnow.com/blog/?p=11”, which redirects back to your home page, while if I edit that url in my address bar to “https://2listnow.com/blog/index.php?p=11”, it goes to the right page, showing the post for “Fast Cars & Fast Motorcycles at DragTimes.com”.

Start by checking out the settings under Options -> General for “WordPress address” and “Blog address” to make sure they’re pointing at the same place. If that doesn’t help, also check your permalink settings under Options -> Permalinks.

Hope this helps,

VoodooLogic

IE7 – and any browser, for that matter – is oblivious to the PHP code embedded in files running on your server. You probably already know this, but it bears repeating: the only thing that gets sent to your browser by the server is rendered content, not the code itself (the exception being JavaScript, which runs on the client instead of on the server).

I know it’s hard to argue with the results you’re seeing, but it may be worth asking a couple of questions. When you say the two versions are ‘exactly the same’, is that from eyeballing them, or from using a tool like WinMerge (https://winmerge.org/) to examine the two files byte by byte?

I ask, because unless the world of programming in PHP has turned upside down in the last couple of days, the answer has to be that something different is being sent to your browser by each of your versions.

All the best,

VoodooLogic

Hi Marcomail – what’s the exact error you’re getting?

All the best,

VoodooLogic

Hmmm. I do a couple of things for this. First, I always place comments around any changes I make to core files with a standard text string, so I can search across my files for any changes I’ve made.

I also use subversion (https://subversion.tigris.org/) to keep track of changes made, so I can drop back to a previous version if / when required.

And if I’m performing an upgrade, I tend to install the new version in a different directory, and compare the directory trees of my working version against the new version with WinMerge (https://winmerge.org/).