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I put that list of recently updated posts in the sidebar – but wanted to make sure these got noticed since they're more important. In some cases the changes were only minor – but in others the changes were much bigger. Either way, if you use these scripts, get the latest version:

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For sometime now, I've been saying a better way to have comment moderation would be allow comments from "regular visitors" come through right away, and everything else get moderated. This way – it takes the burden of moderating ALL comments off the blog author, and takes away any kind of "hoop jumping" your would-be commenters have to do – especially with the ones that comment regularly. Most spam preventions "punish" these people the most.

Of course, I'm too lazy busy to write the script – but I'm so glad that someone else did!

Kitten's Friendly Comments

I've actually had very good luck thus far with the simple spam words in WP – but as soon as that starts to fail more seriously – I will definitely implement something like that.

I've been going back in and modifying some existing posts – and I thought it would be useful to see a list of posts that were recently edited.

This function would go in your my-hacks.php file. I created it quickly for my own uses – wanted to keep it here for "code storage" – but you will probably want to customize the code so that it does what you want it to.
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Monty asked about comment highlighting based on author.

Even though this isn't a plugin, I thought this could work similar to the way I was doing comment highlighting
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This function will list all posts, and group them by day. If you want to use it – add it to your my-hacks.php file. (See more information on how to use my-hacks.php here – link via Carthik)

Again – I made this function specifically for a personal use – so there's not a lot of 'easy customization' without specifically editing the code, so I apologize for the lack of ease-of-use – but I wanted to post this for my own "code storage".
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Some habits are hard to break. In the MT world – comments and trackbacks are different animals. Maybe just because I'm used to it that way – but that's the way I prefer it. A trackback/pingback isn't a complete thought. Comments (usually) are. When reading the comments section, I find it disrupting to see a trackback in the middle of the discussion. When I'm ready to leave the site and read another opinion, I will.

Ok, I'll get off the soapbox now. Greg asked me how I separated the comments and trackbacks on this site. Here's how:
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The idea of this plugin was to create a version of this for WordPress. I am aware that there is another similar script – but I didn't want the actual posts pulled in – just the link to go see the posts for that day in the past. As well – I wanted to use it outside the WP Loop.

Current Version: v 2.0
Last updated: 11/17/04 10:37pm

So here's the plugin – installation and use are pretty simple:
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A HUGE HUGE thank you to Carthik who made a fix to the current import-mt for me because of some issues I had when I imported my MT entries. (I've since deleted all the imported entries – and used his new version to re-import them and now everything is beautiful again!) 😀

The only drawback is that any "new" comments/trackbacks on those old posts have been lost. I apologize for the inconvenience of that. I don't think there were all that many. It was either that or have two years worth of scripts be very messed up.

Until the fix is included in a specific release – here is the fixed import-mt.php that Carthik sent me.

I'm in the process of moving a few other blogs over to use WP – one of which makes calls to a seperate database unrelated to WP. This proved to cause a conflict. After many hours of trying to figure out where the specific conflict was – I narrowed it down to my mysql_select_db line. Apparently selecting your database this way – even if you close your mysql connection – and then select a different database later on – it can cause you headaches (and make you stay up later than you had intended to) LOL! =Yawn=

The remedy was specifying the databasename when referencing the table and avoiding using the mysql_select_db line altogether.

So instead of code that looked like this:
$databaseConnection = mysql_connect($databaseServer, $databseUsername, $databasePassword) or
die ('I can't connect to the database.');
mysql_select_db($databaseName,$databaseConnection);
$query = "SELECT * from tablename;";
$result = mysql_query($query);

I changed it to this and it seemed to work:
$databaseConnection = mysql_connect($databaseServer, $databseUsername, $databasePassword) or
die ('I can't connect to the database.');
$query = "SELECT * from " . $databaseName . ".tablename;";
$result = mysql_query($query,$databaseConnection);

I'm not a big fan of the "curly" quotes. WordPress does them automatically – but this can really mess you up if you're copying and pasting code from a post. So I've turned them off…

As seen on this thread on the WP support forum – I've commented out all the lines at the end of vars.php (found in your includes folder) that look like this:

add_filter('the_SOMETHING', 'wptexturize');