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It seems like this might be due to something with mod_security. I can’t for the life of me get it to exclude properly, though.

I’m having this exact same issue. WordPress 2.0.3. Rest of the site seems to work fine. I tried setting permissions to 777, etc, no soap. Every other admin function works fine except for trying to change number of posts per page, or the feed options, in the Reading pane of the Options panel.

The problem with that code is, what if the last page only has 3 posts to display? Then the last post doesn’t get the correct style.

The only explaination I can come up with for this is that your web host does not have index.php defined as an index by default.

When someone hits https://www.yourdomainname.com, the server checks it’s configuration files to see what it’s supposed to show them. Usually it conains index.php, or index.cgi, etc.

If none of those files exist, then it doesn’t work. I would kindly ask your host how to remidy this.

I think you could easily adapt my own meathod for your own purposes:

https://www.zerolives.org/backissues/2004/09/26/easy-audioscrobbler-syndication-with-php5/

What causes this problem is the fact that the_author() actually outputs text instead of returning a variable for usage. Try something like this:

$variable = the_author();

and then use $variable for the comparison. It probably won’t work. But at least you tried!

I’ve put together a small hack for 1.5 users:

https://www.zerolives.org/backissues/2005/01/06/testing/

Basically it subjects all trackbacks to the same filters as your comments, which you control in the dashboard. A 1.2 version is in the works, too.

I think I’ve come up with a solution that will use the blacklist settings in your WordPress admin section:

https://www.zerolives.org/backissues/2005/01/06/testing/

This is a knee-jerk fix, but is working fine for me after seeing it stop 5 bad pings and keep 1 good one. Comments are open.