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Does PHPBay Pro work with the WordPress subdomains plugin so that pages can be created as subdomains and eBay auction listings will properly work on the subdomains?

Yep. Works like a charm.

Spammers are attracted to WordPress blogs because they can leave their name and have it hyperlinked to their website to create a valuable link.

Instead of encouraging such spam, or having to moderate comments to delete spammy name links, why not simply delete the option to submit a website?

Our point of reference is the Mandigo theme, which we love, but this procedure should be universal across Wordpress blogs.

What you want to do is from the Theme Editor find the comments.php file.

About 3/4 of the way down there will be a section where you see the input requests if someone is not logged into your blog. The requests ask for the person’s name, email address, and website url.

Here is the code requesting the url:

<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<? php echo $comment_author_url; ?> "size="22" tabindex="3" /> 
	<label for="url"><small><?php _e('Website', 'mandigo'); ?></small></label></p>

Simply delete this code. Problem solved and it will not affect your blog because this is not a required field (unlike the name and email fields.)

Now, the only way a spammer can leave a link is if they post a link in the comments portion of the field. By moderating the discussion so that any comments are held if their contain one or more links, the spammer is stopped cold.

Wordpress offers both posts and pages, and the differences between the two are not always obvious.

Posts can be associated with categories. Pages cannot.

If you associate a post with a category, and only have that one post for the category, then it can look like a page for website linking. Normally, each page can be linked in the sidebar, but each post cannot. Instead, the category for the post can be linked, or a plugin can be installed that might, for instance, display the last 5 posts. But if you want a table of contents that is harder with posts than with pages.

Pages can have subpages. That is, like a directory structure there can be subdirectories. Posts cannot.

Consider the Michael Jackson Funeral Website. Along the right-side of the page is a menu. Everything under ‘Memorabilia’ is a page. Everything under ‘Topics’ is a post. Each page displays one page of information. Each link under Topics displays the various posts associated with that category. There could be subpages listed under each page, but a decision was made not to clutter the menu with subpage listings.

Also, not all pages are listed in the menu. You can select certain pages not to be displayed. That cannot be done with posts.

What is going on is that the normal default terms of Pages and Categories have been changed to make the menu more attractive for the website.

Also, by default only posts appear in the Wordpress blog’s rss feed. Pages do not. This means if you only use pages and not posts, then you do not have an rss feed.

If you want pages to appear in Wordpress rss feeds then you need a plugin called RSS Includes Pages. One undocumented issue with the plugin is that it will not work if you only have pages on your blog. What you need to do is create some posts, then this plugin will be able to add your blog pages to the rss feed.