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It’s like getting a high score on a pinball machine – totally meaningless, but still kinda fun ??

Oh, you need to set your error reporting before attempting the include, or it won’t apply.

Hm. Now that I look at your include() statement a little more closely… I think you’re supposed to use single quotes, not double quotes. Could that be it?

When you say it doesn’t work – does it return any error messages? Does it not include the file at all, or does it just choke on parts of it? Try setting your error reporting level to E_ALL, see if it returns anything helpful.

Also, see this thread.

Only three? There are five on my list for potentially tweaking and installing:

Almodovar
Zen Minimalist
Chuck-a-Wobbly
Yarr! Tis Me Blog!
Framefake Theme

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Include_Tags

It returns the sidebar.php file from your current theme’s directory, or from the default theme directory if your current theme doesn’t have a file called sidebar.php. Make sure the theme you’re editing is activated by going to the ‘Presentation’ panel in your WP-admin.

Ricland, how do you want your comments to appear? Below each post on the front page, or a list of recent comments in the sidebar, or what?

Your “front page” template is the one called index.php. To learn more about how to edit this, where to put modifications and so on, I suggest browsing some of the Codex articles on blog design and layout, particularly Stepping into Template Tags.

I’m guessing it had something to do with this post… that, and I left the exclamation point off the list of punctuation to use when splitting words, d’oh!

I’ll put together Version 1.1 sometime this week, with the validation fix (thanks, vkaryl!), punctuation fixes, and more detailed documentation. Hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later, but we’ll see…

Have you checked to make sure functions-compat.php is in the folder it’s supposed to be in, and has the right permissions (755)?

Also, I’ll have a stab at rewriting the documentation. Jinsan’s got it right, though – just call the template function wherever you want the list to be displayed.

Robot, to put it in a page or post directly, you’d have to use a plugin such as RunPHP that allows you to run php code within posts.

Lorelle: I doubt I have much of a chance, but should probably put it in the repository anyway…

Cron: Good thought, but I’m not sure how to retrieve a person’s permalink structure – anyone know? This way will work for everyone. If you know how to work with php echo statements you can edit it yourself, I’ll upload a new version with a comment for that line.

3stripe: I cribbed from a similar plugin for Moveable Type and the weighted categories plugin. Altering something similar is usually easier than working from scratch ??

Shadow: Huh, that’s odd! The plugin splits on spaces and a variety of punctuation marks, so it picks up so-called words like “wouldn” – but it shouldn’t be thinking that “windows” is the same as “wind”. However, Weighted Words only counts 27 uses of “wind” but the search returns over 40 results – so this seems to be an issue with WP’s search function being a little overinclusive. I’ll look into it… thanks for the report ??

Caoimhin, depending on what you want to do, you may not need to learn much PHP at all – just enough to work with the WordPress template system. Dividing your blogroll by categories can be accomplished using the wp_get_links tag, for one; and there are many ad systems that give you code that can just be dropped into your sidebar.

Try just browsing the documentation on Codex, particularly the Lessons section. Sounds like you might benefit from Stepping into Template Tags.

If you’re really just looking for a php tutorial, you could try the one on php.net.

If it is asking for robots.txt, it’s almost certainly a search engine spider of some kind. Beyond that, gee, dunno.

You could also call the script from a php include or incorporate it within an iframe.

255.255.255.255 is a special IP, the “limited broadcast address”. It shouldn’t ever be routed on the Internet, so a whois query won’t help.

Someone on your server’s local network is probably causing this.