Fun and games with comments

Posted byScattered Thinker 2 Comments on Fun and games with comments

Sue (paintermom) contacted me to let me know that blog comments were broken – typical, just as soon as I particularly invite comments on a post!

It would seem that after I updated WordPress when I went to bed last night, one of the plugins stopped working properly and WordPress 3.0.1 decided to deliver a spurious error message and tell commenters that they are spam bots. Just to be even-handed, it even informed me, logged in as Admin, that I was a spam bot too.

Tsk!

I identified the likely problem then spent half an hour with all plug-ins turned off, and adding them back in one-by-one. It was, of course, the one plugin that I expected to be the rogue, and which I added back in last, that proved to be so.

You should find that everything works OK now but if it doesn’t — please use the contact form to drop me a line and let me know.

The other, earlier, problem persists and is resisting diagnosis. I plan to investigate at the weekend. Perhaps you can help me, dear reader?

Here’s the case:

  1. I normally use permalinks, so that the URLs you see are understandable, if long.
  2. I also normally offer the ability to read blog posts by category
  3. Currently, if I have Permalinks ON, then selection of posts by Category does not work
  4. If I turn Permalinks OFF, Category listings start working again
  5. For “Category” read “Category AND Tag”

Here is the question:

If you happen to read the blog on the site, and not by RSS, which do you find most irritating — (A) the change from permalinks to URLs that look like this one: http://www.woolgathering.org.uk/?p=6504 OR (B) the lack of the drop down box to select posts by Category?

Until I can get both to play nicely together, I am happy to go with whatever the reader wants… assuming that I have a reader, of course.

Oh, the Comments link is up there at the left of the post now, if you are reading on the front page.

Published by Scattered Thinker

The Scattered Thinker is somewhat past her prime, but not yet in any danger of giving up. In the Inter-world, she is often known as plumbum, or sometimes as ulygan. In the Real Life, she goes by the name of Beth. Beth is a roamer. She lives in a motorhome and has a backup static caravan that serves as a bolthole if needed. Bricks and mortar are very much a thing of the past. Contact Beth if you would like to correspond with paper and pen.

2 replies on “Fun and games with comments”

  1. So nobody replied yet?
    I get thunderbird to collect your rss feed and then I just click through to the web page the read it all.
    Of course, as I commented earlier, if the rss feed url changes, as it did, I don’t see anything until I actually notice the “not found” message when TB collects stuff.
    I do hope you don’t mind me lurking in your blog.

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