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The static pages (like Store) are working again. I’ve had to fix the redirect plugin by Nick Berlette. If you want it to work with your modern WordPress blog (2.6 or higher) you just need to change a tiny bit.
Remove this:
I’ve been looking at switching host providers from Yahoo for some time. I did a test migration to WordPress.com but discovered that they really don’t seem to get that many people would like to control their own blog. For a simple blog, WordPress.com would be fine but you might as well go with Livejournal.com, Facebook or some other blogging system then. I don’t see what value WordPress.com offers.
If you paste code into a widget, save and when you look again it has gone then the system has removed it.
This is done for security reasons.
Anything that has a line like this: <script type="text/javascript">
or that uses Form or Input tags for instance is not allowed. There are other tags but the effect is the same – they disappear. There are no exceptions to this.
For various reasons we do not permit the uploading and use of plugins here at wordpress.com.
The hosting is simply for your blog even if you would pay $$ for email services. Sure, they have a hack that will allow you to redirect to Google Apps but you might as go with Google’s Blogger then. Perhaps I’m just not getting the point of WordPress.com (not to be confused with WordPress.org). Can someone enlighten me?
Sometime early this afternoon, the categories & tags of my blog disappeared. After a little bit of investigation (I was working quite heavily at the time), I discovered that the wp_term_taxonomy table in MySQL contained minor corruption. I ran repair table ‘wp_term_taxonomy’ and it was corrected.
Selena over at Tending the Garden, posted a very good video of why you would choose WordPress or Drupal. It seems a little slanted towards Drupal but that may just be me
In WordPress 2.5.1 – finding the missing comments in the admin -> show all comments
If you have comments in your WordPress 2.5.1 blog but the admin page says you don’t:
Then you probably have a missing index on the table wp_comments. You just need to add an index on column comments_date_gmt: