What the fuck?

Tja, was soll ich sagen. Ich hatte ja in dem ersten Blog-Post schon erwähnt das ich mich mal schlau machen wollte wie es bei der AD Logistik GmbH mit einer Erhöhung des Stundenlohnes nach Überstehen der Probezeit aussieht. Angestellte der GO Zeitarbeit bekommen diese ja nach der Probezeit. Also habe ich vor circa einer Woche den Verantwortlichen drauf angesproche, besagten Herrn Gnutt aus dem Titel. Man möge mir verzeihen wenn der Name falsch geschrieben ist, aber das ist mir auch sowas von egal hehe. Abgesehen davon, hat sich in der Woche nachdem ich ihn drauf angesprochen habe folgendes getan: nichts

Erwartungsgemäß habe ich bis zum heutigen Tage keinerlei Feedback in irgendeiner Form von diesem Herrn Gnutt bekommen. Auf eine Nachfrage ob es denn schon ein Update diesbezüglich gäbe gab es ein kurzes und knappes “Nein”, und scheinbar möchte der gute Herr dieser unbequemen Frage auch aus dem Wege gehen. Zumal verrät seine Gestik das recht deutlich. Scheinbar sind solche Fragen nicht so gerne gesehen, bzw. werden nicht so gerne gehört. Aber dann sollte man als Verantwortlicher auch die Eier in der Hose haben und dem Angestellen sagen das eine Erhöhung nicht drin ist. Und nicht wie ein bedröppelter Dackel durch die Gegend schleichen und Blickkontakt ausweichen. Kein feiner Zug wie ich finde. Alles in allem passt aber auch dieses in mein Gesamtbild das ich von dem feinen Herrn habe und daher hält sich die Enttäuschung auch in Grenzen. Glücklicherweise gibt es da noch einen kleinen Haken den die Herren nicht bedacht haben und den ich derzeit anwaltlich prüfen lasse. Geht um die geleisteten Stunden und die daraus resultierende Vergütung als Überstunden da ich mein Stunden-Soll locker überschreite, die Extra-Stunden allerdings nicht als Überstunden deklariert bzw. vergütet werden. Daher hab ich das Ganze mal zu nem Anwalt mit dem Fachgebiet Arbeitsrecht gegeben, der den Vertrag durchleuchtet und prüft ob da ein etwaiger Anspruch auf eine nachträgliche Vergütung der Überstunden besteht.

Ein weiterer geiler Klops ist ein Schreiben, das mich vor zwei Tagen erreichte. In jenem heisst es das man doch bitte bis zum 31.03.2010 ein polizeiliches Führungszeugnis nachreichen möchte. Ich kenn´s ja eher so das ein solches bei der Einstellung vorgelegt werden muss, und nicht nach 9 Monaten oder wie im Falle einiger Arbeitskollegen von mehreren Jahren. Grund dafür ist wohl das Verschwinden eines Lasters voll mit Nüssen (wer auch immer sowas klaut). Nur weiss ich immer noch nicht wie die Vorlage eines solchen Zeugnisses Diebstähle verhindern sollen. Zumal dort auch noch längst nicht alle Vorstrafen eingetragen sind, bzw. einige Einträge auch nach dem Ablauf von 3 oder 5 Jahren wieder entfernt werden. Aber naja, auch damit muss ich mich nicht mehr rumplacken gottseidank. Alles in allem scheint es mit dem Klima in der Firma bergab zu gehen, fast täglich entdeckt man neue Ungereimtheiten oder Sachen die einen nur den Kopf schütteln lassen vor Verzweiflung hehe.

As part of the WordPress installation, you must modify the wp-config.php file to define the WordPress configuration settings required to access your MySQL database. This file, wp-config.php, does not exist in a downloaded copy of WordPress; you need to create it. The wp-config-sample.php file is provided as an example to work from. Advanced settings and examples are provided below.
To change the wp-config.php file for your installation, you will need this information:

• Database Name – Database Name used by WordPress
• Database Username – Username used to access Database
• Database Password – Password used by Username to access Database
• Database Host – The hostname of your Database Server

Important: never use a word processor like Microsoft Word for editing WordPress files!

Locate the file wp-config-sample.php in the base directory of your WordPress directory and open in a text editor. The first important part of the configuration file is this one:

Code:

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

The parts highlighted in red need to be replaced with your mysql details. If your hosting provider installed WordPress for you, get the information from them. If you manage your own web server or hosting account, you will have this information as a result of creating the database and user. The last two settings, CHARSET and COLLATE leave alone. The next thing to focus on are the security keys. Beginning with Version 2.6, three (3) security keys, AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, and LOGGED_IN_KEY, were added to insure better encryption of information stored in the user’s cookies. Beginning with Version 2.7 a fourth key, NONCE_KEY, was added to this group. A secret key is a hashing salt which makes your site harder to hack and access harder to crack by adding random elements to the password. In simple terms, a secret key is a password with elements that make it harder to generate enough options to break through your security barriers. A password like "password" or "test" is simple and easily broken. A random, unpredictable password such as "88a7da62429ba6ad3cb3c76a09641fc" takes years to come up with the right combination.

You don’t have to remember the keys, just make them long and complicated or better yet, use the the online generator. You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies this does mean that all users will have to login again.

Code:

 */
define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
/**#@-*/

The last part to focus on is the table prefix. The $table_prefix is the value placed in the front of your database tables. Change the value if you want to use something other than wp_ for your database prefix. Typically this is changed if you are installing multiple WordPress blogs in the same database, and also for enhanced security. Its a safe and good idea to change this value pre-installation to add more security to your WordPress blog. Exploits attempted against your WordPress blog by malicious crackers often are built with the premise that your blog uses the prefix wp_, by changing the value you mitigate some attack vectors.

Code:

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix  = 'r235_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

A second blog installation using the same database can be achieved simply by using a different prefix than your other installations.

Code:

$table_prefix  = 'y77_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

G´day everyone,
since a new version of ELGG has been released i figured it is about time to come up with
another tutorial about how to install that script on your 000webhost.com account. A few
words before we dive in deep and install it -> If you seriously plan on running ELGG and
establish a community then you might be better off looking for a different hosting company.
At least with ELGG 1.2 000webhost.com has been a somewhat unreliable host. By unreliable i mean
getting a lot of database errors and general connection problems. And those problems weren´t
in any way, form or shape related to 000webhost restarting their MySQL servers every once in a while,
they were caused by servers that appear to be overloaded or not powerful enough to cope with ELGG.

Downloading ELGG
As usual, first thing you should do is grab the latest copy of ELGG from Elgg.org – Downloads. As of the time writing this tutorial it is version 1.5, released March 9th 2009. So go and get a
copy of it. After downloading and extracting you are stuck with a number of files and folders waiting
to be transfered to the server. The archive comes as .zip so you can either use the in-built zip-functions
in Windows XP and Vista or use a 3rd party tool like WinRAR or 7Zip to extract the archive.

Uploading and installing ELGG
Right, we extracted the archive, now it´s about time to upload ELGG to the server. For that you need a very obvious thing called a FTP client. There are a ton of them so choice is yours. Pretty much every FTP client needs to be configured with your account details, so that´s the first step for you to do. Open the FTP client of your choice and set up a connection to 000webhost.com using your account details (can be found either in  000webhost.com cpanel or in the welcome mail they sent you when you signed up with them). The relevant part you´d be looking for is this

Code:

*** File Upload Details ***
FTP Hostname: ftp.********.net76.net or 64.191.56.133
FTP Username: a1234455
FTP Passsword: yaright

Got the connection working? Good, the next thing you should take into consideration is where to upload it. You can either upload it to your root directory which is public_html or to a subdirectory like /community. Uploading it to your root directory will display ELGG when visitors open your webpage in their browsers (which should be the preferred way of installing it). Again, choice is yours. For this tutorial i will install ELGG into the root directory. Enough about where to upload it, now go and upload the files. When the upload is finished the files should show inside the directory you uploaded them to. One last thing you should do before you start installing ELGG are two changes to file permissions and renaming one file. This will make installation a lot easier for you, especially if you aren´t in the mood to manually edit files on the server. First rename htaccess_dist to .htaccess. When you are done renaming CHMOD this file to CHMOD 666. Second step that needs to be done is temporarily (for installation only) change the permissions of the engine directory. By default it should be 755, and you need to change it to 777 for the installation so ELGG can write the settings file right into that directory. Still with me? Good, now it´s time

for you to point your browser to your domain and actually install ELGG.

Installing ELGG

Ok, files are uploaded now it´s time for some headaches. Open your browser and point it to wherever you uploaded ELGG. You now should be seeing the first screen of the ELGG installation which asks for your MySQL details. Those pesky MySQL details can be found in the 000webhost.com cpanel, that is if you set up a database already. If you didn´t, well, do it now. How that´s done can be looked up in another tutorial i did, just do a brief search for it using the search function on this forum. When you got your MySQL details just fill them in and press Save. If you have entered the correct details you are taken to the next step of the installation that asks for some basic details. Basically you need to enter a title for your site, a short / brief description for it, an email address to which system notifications will be send and

a few more details such as server path. And that is where things get dirty. Take a closer look, focussing on the path at the very bottom and you´ll see what i mean.

Code:

http://somedomain.com/home/a6574239/public_html/

Ya, that is not the actual URL as you might have noticed. For whatever reason ELGG, during install, adds the path to the home directory. As this is wrong we need to clean up a bit and change the URL to the correct value. In this case it would be

Code:

http://somedomain.com/

Don´t forget the trailing slash

Right below that you have to enter the full path to your site root on your disk. This is also automatically filled, and ELGG even manages to put the correct path this time. Yet checking the path doesn´t hurt none, so verify if the path is correct. Last but not least you need to tell ELGG where to store uploaded files. The folder that stores those files has to be outside of the installation path. I suggest creating a directory like "data" on the same level as your "public_html" directory and make it writeable. If you don´t follow this advise and try to enter a path that´s inside your install directory you will receive an error message like this

Your data directory /home/a6574239/public_html/data/ must be outside of your install path.

So go create the folder via FTP client, CHMOD it 666 and let it rip. Then return to the ELGG installation, verify all the path variables again and pay special attention to the trailing slash that needs to be added to every path you entered. The bottom of that screen gives you some more options like disabling the transmission of anonymous usage statistics (which you should do). Once you are sure that all paths are correct…. DO NOT PRESS "SAVE"!!!!. Before we continue there is a minor change to the .htaccess file that needs to be done, else we would see nothing but a 404 error page. Open the .htaccess file on your server and look for this bit of code

Code:

# If Elgg is in a subdirectory on your site, you might need to add a RewriteBase line
# containing the path from your site root to elgg's root. e.g. If your site is
# http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/, you might need
#
#RewriteBase /sites/elgg/
#
# here, only without the # in front.
#
# If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your site, but still getting lots
# of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:
#
# RewriteBase /

As i installed ELGG to the root directory i need to change the code so it looks like

Code:

# If Elgg is in a subdirectory on your site, you might need to add a RewriteBase line
# containing the path from your site root to elgg's root. e.g. If your site is
# http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/, you might need
#
#RewriteBase /sites/elgg/
#
# here, only without the # in front.
#
# If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your site, but still getting lots
# of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:
#
RewriteBase /

See the difference in the last line? I had to remove the "#". Then save the file and go back to your ELGG installation where you can now click on "Save". You then will be given the opportunity to create an admin account and once you are done with that you can login and configure away. Now i know that ELGG can be a bitch to install and i have seen experienced people fail doing that, so in case you can´t get ELGG to work you are more than welcome to post your questions and problems here.

Mich interessiert brennend ob es noch andere Ausgebeutete gibt, die derzeit für die AD Logistik GmbH in Witten arbeiten und sich ob deren Praktiken im Vergleich zur GO Zeitarbeit an den Kopf fassen. Ohne jetzt viel umherzuschwafeln eins vorweg: Die Leute im Büro sind allesamt super nett und hilfsbereit wenn es mal klemmt irgendwo. Da kann ich mich nicht beschweren drüber. Was mir allerdings momentan immer mehr gegen den Strich geht ist, das die AD Logistik GmbH im Gegensatz zur GO Zeitarbeit wohl eher die Ausbeuter-Firma ist, die ihre Leute für 7€/Std. arbeiten schickt wohingegen die Leute mit einem GO Vertrag dank des Tarifanschlusses mindestens 7.51€/Std. verdienen (gleicher Einsatzort, gleiche zu erbringende Arbeitsleistung) und durch besagten Tarifanschluss natürlich auch Anspruch auf Urlaubs- und Weihnachtsgeld gemäß Tarifvertrag haben.

Was mich stutzen lässt ist das sowohl die AD Logistik GmbH als auch GO Zeitarbeit dieselben Geschäftsführer haben lt. Auszug aus dem Handelsregister, selbst die Emailadresse für die AD Logistik GmbH zeigt auf die go-zeitarbeit.de Domain. Stutzen allerdings indirekt, da sich mir momentan da noch der Sinn hinter entzieht, aber wozu hat man Wirtschafts-Anwälte im Freundeskreis die einem das sicherlich die Tage mal erläutern werden. Ist aber auch egal im Moment, meine Motivation weiter für die AD Logistik GmbH zu arbeiten schwindet in den letzten Tagen merklich, wenn man bedenkt welche “Enttäuschungen” man damit erleben muss im beruflichen Sinne. Nichts gegen den Job selbst den ich momentan mache, der ist ok. Allerdings lässt die Professionalität einger Herren, voran genannt sei hier ein Herr G., der sich auf die Beantwortung meiner Frage nach einer möglichen Erhöhung des Stundenlohnes nach Ablauf der Probezeit, wie bei GO Zeitarbeit der Fall, unerklärlich viel Zeit für die Beantwortung lässt. Ausser einem gemurmelten “Ich schaue mal was man da machen kann” vor ein paar Tagen kam bisher leider keinerlei Feedback, so das ich davon ausgehen muss das die Anfrage entweder “ausgesessen” werden soll und er hofft das sich das von allein erledigt, oder aber es ist in Vergessenheit geraten. Letzteres ist aber nahezu auszuschließen, da er gestern auf meine Frage ob es denn schon ein Update gibt scheinbar genau wusste worum es ging. Daher ist leider vom ersteren auszugehen, was aber perfekt in mein Bild dieses Mannes passt

Wie dem auch sei, ich werd dran bleiben und hier nach und nach häppchenweise meine Erlebnisse des letzten Jahres schildern. Und vorweg abschließend: Wenn ihr euch dort bewerbt, betet zu Gott das ihr über die GO Zeitarbeit eingestellt werdet hehe. Die Tage schilder ich mal ein paar amüsante Erlebnisse die ich der Allgemeinheit auf keinen Fall vorenthalten möchte. Es gab ja wie ich eingangs erwähnte bis auf die Entwicklung der letzten 1-1.5 Monate eigentlich nicht viel zu klagen und ich hatte ne Menge Spaß mit diversen Kollegen, auch wenn es hier und da mal geknallt hat. Aber einige Leute werden mir deffo fehlen wenn ich dem Land den Rücken kehre…..Simönchen ist so ein Dingen was ich gerne als Haustier mitnehmen würde

Wenn ihr selbst bei der AD Logistik oder der GO Zeitarbeit in Witten arbeitet würden mich auch, wie ganz am Anfang geschrieben, eure Meinungen und Eindrücke bzw. Erlebnisse mit der Firma selbst interessieren. Ihr könnt diese als Kommentar schreiben, oder mir per Email/Kontakt-Formular zukommen lassen. Kommentar zu diesem Blog-Beitrag wäre allerdings lieber da es sicherlich für die Allgemeinheit interessant ist was ihr für eigene Erfahrungen mit den besagten Firmen gemacht habt. Die Kommentare werden natürlich anonym veröffentlicht, bzw. könnt ihr euch ja schon beim Erstellen des Kommentares einen fiktiven Namen verpassen um etwaige Rückschlüsse auf eure eigene Identität auszuschliessen. Also ran ans Keyboard und fleissig kommentiert

Mit den extrem spannenden Spielen Shave Invaders, Extrem Knitting IV, Kitchen Queens, Steamy Iron II, Livingromm Mania, Tring Star & Suckend Life. Soll nochmal einer sagen es gibt keine Konsolen für Frauen

Besonders das letzte Spiel sieht sehr interessant aus hehe. Und das sowas aus Holland kommt…ist ja klar oder?

To set up a website, there are three steps you will need to take:

1. Get Your Domain Name
A domain name is a name you want to call your website. For example, the domain name of the website you’re reading now is “threehosts.com”. To obtain a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. Take into consideration that you cannot buy a domain for life. You get it for a period of one to ten years. If you fail to renew the domain name at the end of its term, the registration of the domain will be revoked and the domain name may be acquired by another party.

2. Choose a Web Host and Sign Up For an Account
A web hosting service provides you with online space. This enables you to get your web pages online at your registered domain name.

3. Design Your Web Pages and Get Them Online
There are three ways to create and get your website online:

1- Some web hosts offer Easy-To-Use Site Builder that helps you build your web pages without difficulty, even if you are not skilled in using any website creating software. Their web builder is a WYSIWYG program (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get). This means that the finished page will display exactly the way it was designed.

2- You can create the pages offline with your favorite program (DreamWeaver, FrontPage, etc.), and then upload them to your web host. This is another easy way to get your website online.

3- Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP, or another method. Microsoft FrontPage is a popular WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft.

How to Choose a Reliable Web Host?

Four points to consider when choosing a web hosting service:

Reliability and uptime
Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. It is very important your service be uptime (functioning and available for use). It means you can access your account whenever you want to update your web pages, and users can enter your website whenever they refer to your site address. If your hosting service is not uptime it can be catastrophic!

Disk space
Web hosting space is the amount of room that the web host provides to store your HTML, graphic, video/audio and other files. This figure is most commonly stated in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much space you need for your website, you can choose a web host with unlimited disk space, which allows you to build as many web pages as you want.

Bandwidth
Bandwidth (or data transfer) refers to the amount of data that is accessed by your visitors. Web hosts define bandwidth as the total amount of data access from your server over a month’s time. This figure is most commonly expressed in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much bandwidth you need for your website, you can pick a web host with unlimited data transfer, which allows you to support as many visitors as you want.

Ease of Control Panel
It is important that the control panel is easy to use and all information can be accessed easily.

4. Where Can I Get Started? How Much Does It Cost?
First, take into consideration that web hosting is a global service. It does not matter what country you are located in. It is good to note that the cost of hosting services in most countries is generally a little more expensive in comparison to the same services in Canada and the United States. Specifically, American web hosts offer a much better value for money than any local hosting.

If you want to start your website, we recommend getting your domain and web hosting plan from the same company. This way, it is often possible to get your domain for free, due to some web hosting services offering a domain as a free gift today. Moreover, these web hosts usually offer a free “Site Builder”’ to create your website without paying any additional fees. By taking advantage of all of the aforementioned services, everything you need for setting up your website is provided just in one hosting package.

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLPROTO_FILE cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/*****/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1302

A lot of people got or are still getting this error message when upgrading to WordPress 2.9 and their cronjobs simply stopped working, preventing things like scheduled posts to be be published. To solve this issue all you need to do is to download the attached archive and overwrite the files on your server with the files from the archive and WordPress will be back to normal, error will be gone and you cron jobs like scheduled posts will work again. If you don´t want to download the archive you could also try to fix it like this. Edit /wp-includes/http.php and change the if statement on line 1300 to this:

if ( defined( 'CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS' ) ) {

// EDF - The option doesn't work with safe mode or when open_basedir is set. More

// research is probably necessary however this seems to fix the problems I was

// seeing in the "WordPress Development Blog" section of the Dashboard.

if ( !ini_get('safe_mode') && !ini_get('open_basedir') ) {

$timeout_ms = (int) ceil( 1000 * $r['timeout'] );

curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, $timeout_ms );

curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, $timeout_ms );

}

} else {

$timeout = (int) ceil( $r['timeout'] );

curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );

curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );

}  

A brief walkthrough of installing Invision Power Board. As i don´t own a license for it i had to use a nulled DGT release of IPB 3.0.3 but the installation process isn´t really different from the legit version so let´s get going. I won´t post any links to download the nulled version of it but trust me, it´s easy enough to find on the net. Just use your most valuable tool -> your brain

Uploading IPB to your server
Assuming that you found or bought Invision Power Board you are stuck with a ZIP file that you need to extract before uploading. Depending on where you obtained your copy you might also sit in front of a RAR file. Same as for the ZIP file -> Go and extract it.  Judging by the name the directory upload sounds very interesting, doesn´t it? And surprisingly we need to upload all the contents of this directory to your server. Assuming you would like to install your IPB in a subdirectory /forum you need to upload all files and folders from the /upload directory to the /forum directory.

After uploading, but before starting the installation, you need to change permissions on certain directories to successfuly install IPB. What files and directores need their permissions will be shown on your screen. Nothing really difficult here, if you need help with changing around permissions let us know and we will walk you through it.

Starting the installation
Files and everything are uploaded, permissions have been changed as necessary so now it´s about time to start the installation. To do so all you need to do is point your browser to the location where you uploaded IPB to. Let´s say you installed it in a directory named /forum and your domain is http://www.yourdomain.com then you need to open http://www.yourdomain.com/forum. This will start the installation and the first thing you see is the pre-installation screen that lists the requirements for IPB to run. Nothing really interesting here so move on to the next screen by simply clicking Next.
Now you are looking at some really boring text, generally referred to the End User License Agreement, or short EULA. Either read it and fall asleep while doing so or don´t read it and skip this step by ticking the checkbox and click Next.

Say hello to the Applications screen. This lists what IP applications are currently installed on your system. The Default Applications can´t be changed anyway so focus on the bottom half that offers two options. A calendar app and a portal solution. Leave both ticked and click Next to continue the installation.
Next screen now shows you the paths to your IPB installation. The Install Directory is nothing but the path to the directory in which you wish to install IPB. This normally is filled automatically so you don´t need to worry about that. Same for the Install Address. This should also be automatically filled, if not enter your URL to the forum. As simple as that, basically a no-brainer i´d say. So move on to the next step.
Now things get ugly hehe. This part lets you configure your database connection. If you haven´t set up a mysql database already then it´s about time to do so. Enter your mysql details, leave the MySQL Table Type untouched. If you plan on installing IPB using an already existing mysql database that has some tables in it already then it´d probably be a wise choice to add a table prefix to avoid duplicate table names or make it easier for you to spot which tables in your database belong to IPB. I suggest using ipb_ as table prefix. After you filled everything in click Next.

The "Create an administrator account" thing coming up now. This almost always is a good sign as the installation is almost finished when it comes to creating an administrator. This isn´t only true for IPB but for almost any other script. As soon as you are asked to create an administrator account you know you are almost done with it. Bearing that in mind create your administrator account now, use a reasonably secure password (characters, numbers) and click Next. This is it for now, as you can see on screen the installer has gathered enough details to start the installation and you are supposed to click Start Installation…... Just click it and let IPB do the rest of it. It will now start creating mysql tables in your database and fill them with default data. You can see the progress on screen and IPB will tell you what its installer is about to do, so just lean back and wait ´til it´s done. IPB, witty as it is, will let you know when the installation is completed by displaying a screen saying "Hey, i am done." And that´s it. You are now able to use your IPB and configure it as you see fit. If you have trouble installing it let us know by creating an installation request and we´ll set it up for.

  Do not forget to remove the /installation directory after you completed the installation

A number of people seem to have problems making eDirectory load the categories list, or categories tree if you like, when adding a new listing. This happens with pretty much every nulled version of eDirectory 7 i think, though i can only confirm that issue for the “nulled by Brazil” release and there is a relatively easy solution to that. Actually there are two steps that can solve the problem. The first one is a simple file edit that needs to be performed. Change the code in line 18 of /scripts/categorytree.js to

document.getElementById(prefix+"categorytree_id_"+ category_id).innerHTML =
"<li class=\"loading\">"+showText("Loading Categories")+"</li>";

Replace “Loading Categories” with whatever you want eDirectory to show when it loads the category list. This step in some cases solves the the problem with the categories list not loading. If this doesn´t work for you and eDirectory still seems to load the categories list forever simply either edit or add a new category in eDirectory´s site manager. This turned out to solve the problem for people that performed the above code change to no avail. Overall i have to say that the nulled versions of eDirectory contain that many bugs/erros that you should probably look for another script that does the same. It´s much like a vicious circle, you fix one bug and bam…you run right into the next one. A lot of things don´t work like mobile search, default template is missing some radio buttons that are present in other templates and so on.

Guess the problem that comments weren´t saved was down to the Defension Antispam plugin that i used. Turned out that the moment i deactivated it comments were saved just fine and also showed up in the WP Dashboard. So it´s back to good old Akismet i think, though i really liked Defensio and would´ve loved to keep it. Maybe it´s a combination of hacks i use that made Defensio go haywire but i´d rather keep all the plugins than Defensio. Needless to say that the minute i turned Defensio off i received a number of Spam comments hehe