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I found one article online that said it was an FCK / wysiwyg editor problem so I thought maybe the issue was related to my beloved CMS friend,  Custom Field Template plugin, that I have installed (and love… swoon.. too much?).

However, I was relieved to find this article which said that the problem (freakishly enough) is the Firefox Highlighter addon which was adding the code into the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. So, I removed the Highlighter addon and that seemed to solve the problem. It didn’t remove previous instances of the weird code so I had to delete them manually.

I tried using the FCK fix plugin, hoping that it would remove previous instances of the weird code that were in the site, but it didn’t, so I deleted the plugin.

Recently, one of our clients wanted to change the slug, or permalink, from “about-2″, back to just plain ol’ “about”.  I tried changing the slug from the “quick edit” mode. I tried to Edit the Permalink from the Post Page. No luck, it kept reverting back to about-2.  After doing a few searches, I noticed that others had experienced this problem as well.

The Solution:

So, I finally found this post on the WordPress support forum which suggested I check the Trash folder. Sure enough, I found a page called “About” hanging out in the Trash. Once I permanently deleted the page from the Trash, I was able to save the permalink successfully.

In any case, I’ve fixed the problem and it’s working now, so you can subscribe to it if you like at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WordpressgarageComments.

Thanks as always for reading!

The site in question has multiple contributors. Most are dedicated to certain categories. We would like to automatically display on a category page only the authors who have written articles in that particular category.

For example, let’s say we have a category called “Cucumbers” and a category called “Tomatoes.” When someone clicks on the Cucumbers category we would like only the authors who have written posts categorized as Cucumber posts to appear, and on the Tomatoes category page, we would like only the authors who have written Tomato category posts to appear. There may be some overlap between the pages, since some authors may write posts for both the Cucumber and the Tomato categories.

One solution we thought of is to call the category we want and the number of posts from that category and then display the list of authors. The problem is it shows duplicate authors. Here’s the code:

<?php query_posts('showposts=20&cat=3'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php the_author_posts_link (); ?>

<div style="clear:both"></div>
<?php endwhile;?>

Is there a way to prevent duplicate authors from appearing? Or is there a better way?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I’d like to take this opportunity to say that the Hebrew version of WordPress exists mostly, of not completely,  thanks to Ran Hartstein. Ran always makes sure the Hebrew speaking audience gets their Hebrew version of WordPress as quickly as possible. Of course, the extended Israeli WordPress community adds a lot of value to the usage of WordPress, with many right-to-left themes, plugins, and the vibrant and helpful wpheb google group.

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iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme

Deziner Folio has a really useful step-by-step guide to taking your XHTML/CSS layout and converting it to a WordPress theme. They say this whole process can be completed in 30-40 minutes!

Developing a WordPress Theme

Another option is DevBox’s Wireframe WordPress theme, which is available for download on their site. This is basically a barebones theme that you can use to easily take a XHTML/CSS layout and convert it into a WordPress theme.

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Input passed to the parameter “id” in wordspew-rss.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Read more about the vulnerability here.

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