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As other WordPress 1.5 bloggers know, WP is supposed to let the blog owner know when a comment is waiting for approval. (To weed out spammers, this blog is set up to have only people’s first comment posts require approval.) WP notified me about comments when I set up and tested this blog a few weeks ago, but yesterday, it didn’t.

Apparently this problem is caused by a known bug in WP. It’s discussed in a WP forum thread titled Comments notification not emailed any more, and the problem and solution are detailed on this WordPress page.

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to solve this problem:

1. In your WordPress 1.5 files on your hard drive, go to the wp-includes folder, and open functions.php.
2. Find this line (near the end, on line 1604):
   

   return @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $more);

3. Change the above line to this:
   

   return @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

4. Upload functions.php to your wp-includes folder.

It worked for me.

He started counting at 400+ days. Eventually he was within a year of the event, and then 200, 100, 50 days…and finally counting in single-digit numbers. In a world where we’re used to going out and buying what we want, that was a long time to wait. Longer than a kid counting down to Christmas.

Where he lives in the UK, it was necessary to wait that long. The framework for what he was waiting for wasn’t ready last year, last month, or yesterday.

Today I received this email from him:

UPDATE!!!!!

IT’S ON!!!!!

It came on about 2 minutes ago and I’m just switching everything over to use it so this should be the first email to go out over my ADSL.

Rodney, the world online can now leap to you at your fingertips.

Hey Ben, you know that Labour Day weekend back in 1997 when a few of us from the bicycle club camped in the Gibsons area to explore the trails? I’d tried to organize a bicycle tour in the Okanagan, but not enough people had cars, so I had to change the tour to something that we could get to by bike and ferry. It was a last-minute decision, the trails weren’t that great, and it was the weekend that Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed.

I was in the campground washroom when another camper (who had an RV and a radio) stunned me with the news. You guys had already heard about it when I got back to our campsite. That one memory has overshadowed the rest of that weekend for me.

Unrelated to the above, sometime after that weekend, I got a lightweight automatic camera because my manual camera was rather heavy to carry on bicycle tours. I’ve been using the automatic camera since then, but recently, I decided to use the manual one to get some local nature shots. It still had film in the camera, which I finished.

When I got the pictures developed, well, I didn’t even recognize some of the people or places in them, but one photo brought back a good memory. That weekend wasn’t all bad if we could play the way we did with the photo of you below.

To be fair, I’ve also posted a photo of myself, which I think you took that weekend.

In the column at the right, I’ve started a compilation of links to WordPress 1.5 plugins that I’ve tried (for this blog or for another site) and that I’ve personally found useful. Hover the mouse over the plugin links and you’ll see a short description of each one.

These sites have longer lists of WP plugins:

• WordPress Plugins (the official list)
• WordPress Plugin DB

If you’re also a blogger and would like to tell us about a WP plugin that you really like, click on Comments to post about it.

Do you have a photo of your cat, dog, rabbit, ferret, bird, hamster, or other pet? If you’re a pet owner, of course you do. And of course you want to enter it in a pet photo contest for a chance to win one of two monthly prizes. You can also enter the contest just by voting.

The prizes each month go to the person who submitted the photo that gets the most votes and to a random draw winner from the voters. Prizes are usually gift certificates for Odor Destroyer products although this month’s prizes are a little different.

Odor Destroyer products can be shipped within the US and Canada but not to other countries.

People who enter the contest or vote in it are subscribed to the Odor Destroyer Pet Newsletter. This monthly newsletter has articles about pet care and other pet information as well as a small section about their monthly sale. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter any time, but you probably don’t want to tell me if you do, since I write the articles and compile all the material for it.

And no, I don’t get any benefits from posting about the newsletter or the contest here. I just like to share.