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In both the "About ScreenPens" and "Digital Resources" pages I have checked off (ie enabled) "comments" in the Dashboard Edit screen. The "Leave a Reply" box appears on the "Digital Resources" Page but DOES NOT appear on the "About ScreenPens" page. Is there some restriction on having "Leave a Reply" boxes on multiple pages? Is this just a bug or restriction in the Theme I'm using? (theme is "Digg 3" by WP Designer.

Please advise... this is quite frustrating.
Tkx
Mike P.

twit / twat - write whichever suits :)
(I'm in the UK)

IF a blog is marked Mature:
- it does not appear in sitewide tags
- it does not appear in search
- it does not appear in Blogs of the Day
- it does not appear in any 'Next blog' feature.

As for what is offensive, language generally isn't. I think there are a couple of blogs markd Mature because of language but they tend to use all the swear words very freely. So you have to work hard to get that one.

Write what you need, sometimes * just doesn't work and you need the real deal :)

Is this true - will wordpress place any restriction on blogs deemed offensive?

If so, what might be deemed offensive?

A recent entry on my blog contained the sentence "Twee nonsense sung by an annoying twit". What I originally posted was "Twee nonsense sung by an annoying tw*t". The asterix is probably a perochial affectation that may be lost on people not from the UK. This line appeared on the google search so I hastily changed "tw*t" to "twit". I would much prefer to keep "tw*t" but do not want any restrictions placed on my blog for the sake of an i.

Is there the remotest possibility that wordpress would restrict a blog that contained the line "Twee nonsense sung by an annoying tw*t"?

I am finding links and certain access to the wp-admin pages of a blog that does not belong to me >> tamino.wordpress.com
I looked for a way to alert the blog author but I did not see any contact email. What is happening?

Thank you.

We don't sit around scheming about which features we can withhold today. There are good reasons plugins aren't supported. WordPress.com uses a distributed architecture. Any code that runs on a single blog has access to every other blog. A single buggy or malicious plugin would take down 2 million blogs in seconds. Javascript is a similar situation.

We regularly release new features, and have many more on the way.

WordPress is available for download if you'd like to run it yourself without those restrictions.

WordPress is fairly easy to install on your own server or hosting services. You will, however have to pay for the hosting (Unless you have a cousin with a server farm....).

I find the occasional annoyances a fair trade off for free hosting, and relatively reliable up time.
Your choice may be different.

I can think of better ways to start a forum thread.

Darko
Concerned WordPress blogger

But maybe this "Ideas" forum is not for improvement stuff ...

It is but we're talking different software though. :)

one of the most anoying things in WP 2 are an missing out-of-the-box role editor (there is an plugin, but it is not perfect at all because of many weaknesses in the WP2 role/capabilitiy system - e.g. some capabilities are bound to a specific named role and not to the capability itself) - but much more i miss a finer control over the capabilities.

I spend lots of time to find plugins for limiting categories or pages but i was not satisfied at all because (for example) "restrict pages" from Owen Winkler does not disable the creation of new pages - and that is not possible without modifying the code of a WP 2 admin component (page-new.php) because WP2 thinks that "edit" capabilities are also "create" capabilities - not really useful.

A small hack for this (which works fine with WP 2.0.4) follows (it is an adaption of Owen Winklers "restrict_pages.php"):

In "page-new.php" you have to modify the line that looks like:

if ( current_user_can('edit_pages') ) {

into
if ( current_user_can('create_pages') ) {

then you have to add the following script to your plugin folder (it should have the name "restrict_create_pages.php":

<br /> <?php<br /> /*<br /> Plugin Name: Restrict Page Creation<br /> Description: Restricts users from creating Pages unless they have create pages capability<br /> Version: 0.1<br /> Author: Axel Napolitano<br /> Author URI: http://www.pro-rauchfrei.de<br /> Plugin URI:<br /> */</p> <p>class Restrict_Create_Pages<br /> {<br /> function Restrict_Create_Pages()<br /> {<br /> add_filter('user_has_cap', array(&$this, 'user_has_cap'), 10, 3);<br /> add_filter('capabilities_list', array(&$this, 'capabilities_list'));<br /> }</p> <p> function user_has_cap()<br /> {<br /> global $post, $current_user;<br /> $vargs = func_get_args();<br /> list($allcaps, $reqcaps, $args) = $vargs;</p> <p> if(($reqcaps[0] == 'create_pages') && $allcaps['create_pages'] == 1)<br /> {<br /> return $allcaps;<br /> }<br /> else if(($reqcaps[0] == 'create_pages') && $allcaps['create_pages'] != 1)<br /> {<br /> $allcaps = array();<br /> }<br /> else<br /> {<br /> return $allcaps;<br /> }<br /> }</p> <p> function capabilities_list($caplist)<br /> {<br /> $caplist[] = 'create_pages';<br /> return $caplist;<br /> }<br /> }</p> <p>$restrict_create_pages = new Restrict_Create_Pages();</p> <p>?><br />

Warning

Any user (also the admin-user) without the "create_pages" capability will loose the ability to create new pages. In case of an accident, you can safely rename or delete the plugin from your plugins folder to disable its functionality. It is best used with the installed role editor from Owen Winkler.

Suggestion and Idea:

• Extend the capability system. Add the capabilities "create" and "delete" to allow a finer control if neccessary.

Thanks!

Regards

Rick Deckart

This has been a rumored feature planned for the future and hooks for it appear in the source code but nothing has been offically announced. Only method we would have here would be to suggest to you to (un)check the box that says if you want your blog to appear in search engines and ask to have no one link to it elsewhere.

Either that or grab a copy of the WordPress software and host it elsewhere where you can password protect your site.

Thanks in advance