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. ๐
- 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? ๐ 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 รจ 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, giร 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_id
and 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. ๐
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.