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An update on BotCheck for WordPress 1.5

eirikso3 Comments

It seems like I wasn’t that stupid after all:

Thanks to Eirikso for catching a mistake in the new install instructions for Bot-Check in WordPress 1.5. The old instructions have you remove an if statment that checks for a logged in user. A new download has been put up with correct install instructions.

To fix:

Add

Right before the line

Logged in as …

So, now I am up and running with the latest version of BotCheck and can recommend this little plugin for everyone running WordPress 1.5!

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BotCheck for WordPress 1.5

An update on BotCheck for WordPress 1.5

BotCheck for WordPress 1.5

eirikso4 Comments

Edit:
I have had problems with BotCheck preventing trackbacks. I have deactivated it and try another plugin. More on that issue here!

You find an update on this issue here:
BotCheck 1.1 fixed

BotCheck

I am using BotCheck to prevent comment spam. This works fine in WordPress 1.5. I had to do some small changes to get BotCheck Version 1.0 work in 1.5

You have to change the comments.php-file in your current theme directory. My comments.php look like this:
comments.php

So, it works and I am happy, but BotCheck is now upgraded to version 1.1. So, I tried to upgrade, but got an error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSE in
…../wp-content/themes/wwweiriksocom/comments.php on line 98

Somebody at some point said “if it works, don’t fix it”, so I am back to version 1.0 with the fix in my comments.php mentioned here.

I will check back to www.blueeye.us to see if someone replies to my comment. I have probably done something very stupid, and the fix is probably very easy…

BotCheck for WordPress 1.5

How to include stable RSS-feeds in the template of your WordPress blog

eiriksoLeave a comment

To include the new feed links discussed here and here, I have changed the file called “footer.php” in the directory of my current theme:

Change this:
bloginfo(‘rss2_url’)
to
bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/index.php?feed=rss2

and

bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’)
to
bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/index.php?feed=rss2&withcomments=1

In addition to this you have to change the file called “single.php”. In line 29.

You can find an edited version of “footer.php” here.
You can find an edited version of “single.php” here.

How to include stable RSS-feeds in the template of your WordPress blog

Update on the RSS-problem in WordPress

eiriksoLeave a comment

The very kind lucero at the WordPress support forum posted a fix for the problem with norwegian characters:

echo utf8_encode(html_entity_decode($title));

instead of echo $title;

in wp-includes/feed-functions.php line 12

will fix this problem.

Fantastic! It solved the problem with norwegian characters breaking the feed. If I now could get some more feed readers to accept my feeds everything would be fine! Right now Mozilla Thunderbird is the only reader that accept the feeds… I have no idea why. This was not a problem with my MovableType blogs.

I need to find a solution!

Update on the RSS-problem in WordPress

RSS problems in WordPress

eiriksoLeave a comment

Well, at the point where I thought WordPress was the way to go I have just discovered that the RSS-feeds for my blogs is completely useless:

1. The only reader that I have found that will accept them is Mozilla Thunderbird. That is a very nice software, but I have to support something more than that!

2. The feeds crash completely if I add a norwegian character to the subject of a post.

I hope this is possible to solve!

Follow the support stuff here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24029#post-136354

RSS-feed for the support thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/rss.php?topic=24029

Anyone out there with a suggestion?

RSS problems in WordPress