I’ve finally upgraded to WordPress 1.5 (plus a few patches). Would you believe that I’d still been running 1.0.1 (with a few security fixes)? I never upgraded to 1.2.x because of the slashes bug, so it’s nice to be current again.
A few notes:
- This fix got trackbacks working for me.
- I implemented the alternate coloring for my comments – kinda cool.
- I cleaned up some of my template code – got rid of a few more tables.
- With the super-long (clean) trackback URLs, I had to implement the “URL as link” solution so the long URL didn’t beak my formatting.
- I can now use my own WP Unformatted plugin (disabled autop and texturize on a per post basis)!
- My RSS feed is valid again. The code in this post had broken it in 1.0.1.
- Yes, I implemented my site as a theme. 🙂
- I made the little icons background images in CSS (instead of inline IMGs), removing a little extra code.
- Most of the security bugs that have been reported to date seem to be within the wp-admin folder (which makes sense as all the “dangerous” code is in there). Adding 401 authentication (.htaccess) to that folder seems like a prudent move.
If anything looks broken, please let me know.
Is the trackback fix really necessary for recent downloads of WP 1.5? I looked at my code and it seemed to me as if it had already been applied.
Beats me. I know it’s been silently repackaged before but I thought that wasn’t happening anymore.
I’ll have to look at the fix. Thanks for pointing it out to me, Alex. Welcome to 1.5-land.
Is your site a theme you did, or is it just a site that incorporates WP code? 🙂 If it’s a theme, can we download it somehwere?
Where did you get that nifty “tree” system (that you use for naviagation)?
Thx Alex.
fixing trackbacks
Se avete installato WP 1.5 è probabile che vi sia capito che in qualche caso i trackback non funzionino, e quindi non vengano inviati a destinazione.
Si tratta di un bug di WP, già corretto sembra nel package attualmente scaricabile, ma che richiede u…
I like the idea of adding 401 authentication to wp-admin; such a simple idea to overcome potential security risks. Have you experienced any downsides?
Sorry, my site design is not available. I wrote the tree, but you can find dozens of better ones for free on a scripts site like HotScripts.com.
No downside yet to 401 auth for wp-admin.
I’ve seen that comment color thing before. Where when the admin posts, they’re comment is put in a different color or italicized (like yours). If it isn’t too much trouble, I’d like to know how you did that.
And by the way, I read your iPod post. Nice upgrade. I just got a normal 4G 20 GB iPod myself.
You check the
$comment->user_idand see if it matches your user id, then add a class.You may also want to set your user id to your old comments. I did that with a SQL query. 🙂
The fix appears to have been made prior to my installation of WordPress, but is there a practical way of checking to see if I can send and receive trackbacks without sending to a site that I’m not really tracking back? I tried adding a comment with the text the /trackback code at the end of the comment but it did not appear as a trackback but rather a comment without the code… Thanks!!
Trackback one of your own posts.