A Guide to the Secret Wordpress options.php Sub Panel

On your Wordpress 2.1 admin screen, there is an additional sub panel of options other than the ones you can get to from the admin menus: options.php, otherwise known as All Options.

This sub panel is not documented elsewhere, as far as I know. The list of available options depends on the plugins you have installed, so you may see other options than the ones listed here.

When relevant, I point you to the equivalent field on the corresponding visible Options sub panel.

active_plugins	Read Only
admin_email	General → E-mail address
advanced_edit	Enable (1) or disable (0) VRE editor
akismet_discard_month	Akismet Configuration → Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month (true, false)
archive_mode	monthly or daily archives
blacklist_keys	Discussion → Comment Blacklist
blogdescription	General → Tagline
blogname	General → Weblog title
blog_charset	Reading → Encoding for pages and feeds
blog_public	Privacy → Blog visibility (1 everyone, 0 no search engines)
category_base	Writing → Default post category
comments_notify	Discussion → E-mail me whenever anyone posts a comment (0, 1)
comment_max_links	Discussion → Comment Moderation → Hold a comment on the queue if it contains this many or more links
comment_moderation	Discussion → Before a comment appears an administrator must always approve the comment (0, 1)
comment_registration	General → Users must be registered (0, 1)
comment_whitelist	Discussion → Before a comment appears comment author must have a previously approved comment (0, 1)
cron	Read Only
date_format	General → Default date format
db_version	Your database version. Probably best not to touch.
default_category	Writing → Default post category
default_comment_status	Discussion → Allow people to post comments on the article (open, closed)
default_email_category	Writing → Default mail category
default_link_category	Writing → Default bookmark category
default_pingback_flag	Discussion → Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (0, 1)
default_ping_status	Discussion → Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (open, closed)
default_post_edit_rows	Writing → Size of the post box
default_role	General → New user default role
doing_cron	Probably should be Read Only
gmt_offset	General → Times in the weblog should differ by
gzipcompression	Reading → Wordpress should compress articles
hack_file	Miscellaneous → Use legacy my-hacks.php file support (0, 1)
home	General → Blog address
html_type	The content type for the posts
links_recently_updated_append	The emphasis HTML tag to append to a recently updated link in the blogroll
links_recently_updated_prepend	The emphasis HTML tag to prepend to a recently updated link in the blogroll
links_recently_updated_time	The definition of recent for emphasizing new links in the blogroll - time in minutes
links_updated_date_format	The date format for the updated tooltip for blogroll links
mailserver_login	Writing → Login name
mailserver_pass	Writing → Password
mailserver_port	Writing → Port
mailserver_url	Writing → Mail server
moderation_keys	Discussion → Comment Moderation → Hold a comment on the queue if it contains any of these words
moderation_notify	Discussion → E-mail me whenever a comment is held for moderation (0, 1)
page_for_posts	Reading → Posts Page
page_on_front	Reading → Front Page
page_uris	Read Only
permalink_structure	Permalinks [all options]
ping_sites	Writing → Update Services
posts_per_page	Reading → Blog pages show at most
posts_per_rss	Reading → Syndication feeds show the most recent
recently_edited	Read Only
require_name_email	Discussion → Before a comment appears comment author must fill out name and e-mail (0, 1)
rewrite_rules	Read Only
rss_excerpt_length	The length for rss summaries (lines? characters? words?)
rss_language	The language for encoding rss feeds
rss_use_excerpt	Reading → Syndication feeds for each article, show
secret	I have no idea, but this field is editable and plain text. Must black hat wizardry here, I suspect.
show_on_front	Reading → Front page displays (posts, page)
siteurl	General → Wordpress address
start_of_week	General → Weeks in the calendar should start on
stylesheet	default indicates the default stylesheet.
template	default indicates the default template.
time_difference	Hours off from time zone of server
time_format	General → Default time format
uploads_use_yearmonth_folders	Miscellaneous → Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders (0, 1)
upload_path	Miscellaneous → Store uploads in this folder
users_can_register	General → Anyone can register
use_balanceTags	Writing → WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
use_linksupdate	Miscellaneous → Track Bookmarks’ Update Times (0, 1)
use_smilies	Writing → Convert emoticons
use_trackback	Whether to allow and send trackbacks (0, 1)
what_to_show	Maximum number to display refers to posts or days
wordpress_api_key	For Akismet
wp_user_roles	Read Only

After some scrounging around, I found some additional information about WP 1.0.2 options here.

Yehuda

As Long As We're Linking 22

As usual, this is my new list of worthy, or potentially worthy, new game blog feeds since the last list, which may be found on my sidebar.

Adelaide Gamer: Pleader, Australia.

All Board Gamers Everywhere: Another Livejournal community for board games.

Average Dave: David Ramsey, Hertfordshire, UK

Board Game Night(s) in Calgary: A game group in Calgary, Canada. Session reports and variants.

Boardgamewiki news: A new board game wiki that also has feeds. Started off slowly and seems to have stalled.

breti.org: Jason Breti, Alberta, Canada.

Classic Kid's Games and Party Games: Allen Mincus. No further info. Mostly kids and kinetic party games.

Digitally Disillusioned: Edward J. Pollard, Alberta, Canada.

IronWill Games: Will Knight, Mississippi. Aspiring game designer.

Meeples and Miniatures: Neil Shuck, Leicester, UK. A podcast and a webpage about war and Eurogames.

Miles of nothing Robin, Kentucky. Board game and other posts.

P4Wn3D: Ryan Walberg and Joe Belanger. Don't know why they started a new blog, yet.

Pitstop Board Games Cafe: Singapore gaming cafe, including forums and web site.

Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes: Kevin Jurcik, Ontario, Canada.

The Wandering Settler: Creech Sonic, Singapore.

wood for sheep: Laura Henry, Oakland, CA.

I also dropped another bucket full of blogs. Look at my blogroll if you want to know which. If you don't see yourself, send me a line.

Yehuda

My Game Seems to be Doing OK *cough*

From Creation and Play:

We set up, and within minutes (before the convention officially opened) we had a bunch of players for It's Alive! The table was never empty after that - there were usually people queuing to play. It seemed to be going really well, I started to sell a few copies. Plus a Border Reivers or two. Then it went insane. There was an hour or two when I was struggling to sort out sales, I had a queue of receipts to write. Border Reivers sold out (the last copy was nearly fought for!), It's Alive! sold out. It just kept coming. We got rid of the last of our stock at 1:30pm on Saturday! Three and a half hours in. All we could do for the rest of the convention was demo the game and take orders (over twenty). An online game story pre-order twelve copies for stock. There was interest from the UK's largest games distributor. A publisher was interested in Border Reivers. It was a fantastic weekend...

Near the end of Sunday we heard a rumour that It's Alive! and Fagin's Gang were very close for the UK Game of the Year award, and we just missed out! We're awaiting official confirmation of that...

Order It's Alive here.

Yehuda

Linkety Link

First of all, I feel I owe it to you to tell you my favorite feed right now: Flickr Interesting. Just wow, every day.

Legal Dept: I noted this patent as it went by, and now here comes Wizkids trying to get the recent patent about collectible figurine parts by Wizards of the Coast overturned, or to at least establish that they are not violating it. Click here for details.

Free Games Dept: Gnome points us to a number of free downloadable board and dice games from Cheapass games.

Also free are thousands of Flash games around the web, which you don't need me to tell you about. Nevertheless, people ask me to link to them. FreeGeekery posts a list of his favorites.

Hot Women Who Play Chess Dept: Here. Don't ask me why.

Sweaty Board Games Dept: Go will be a new competition in the 2010 Asian Games. Chess already is.

Points on the Compass Dept: The Northern Echo talks up Beyond Monopoly. The Southern talks up HeroClix.

Pay a Fortune to Play Sorry Dept: Omni Hotels is another chain carrying board games (for kids, they say). I've emailed them for the list of games.

Hippy Dippy Dept: "The Abounding River Board Game is an explorational board game that introduces people to an unfamiliar view of BEING ABUNDANCE. It encompasses both training people in a day to day practice as well as discovering a Spiritual foundation that opens up to a whole new way of looking at money and resources.

People experience themselves being at the source of unlimited supply."

Yehuda

WRATH

WRATH.
Originally uploaded by FlorianOehrlein

Just testing Flickr's pic blogging feature ...
Enjoy.

The Grand Experiment Begins Tomorrow Today

I know you missed me, because I missed you.

I also know that I really felt withdrawal from the Internet; mostly because I thought of the people who may have commented on my blog, and that the comments wouldn't show up due to the moderation. Next time I go away, I'll try to remember to unset the moderation and just delete the spam when I return.

I don't know how I'll survive an entire week away from the Internet in England/Scotland later this month.

Weekend Gaming

The shul weekend was very much like the last weekend, game-wise.

While on a hike, I occupied the kids with a word game: one player picks a single letter to start a series of letters, and each player must add a letter either to the end or front of this series that does not form a word, but is part of a larger word. You have to pass if you can't add a letter without forming a word, or if you can't think of a word containing the current series of letters. The previous player has to say the word they were thinking of, of course.

This is a bit of a challenging game to play with people who can't spell very well.

Over the weekend, we played For Sale. I guess I have to give that game a slight notch up, as it really is a very good intro game, even though I don't particularly care for it myself.

Next we played Apples to Apples Junior. I actually liked this version better than the original or Jewish editions, because there were no proper names, places, or dates, just plain old words, which are the most fun to play, anyway. I never felt like I had a hand full of trash that needed to be tossed, and the comparisons were just as amusing.

Now I'm not sure why the regular A2A editions have so many proper names.

Nadine, Rachel, and I played Puerto Rico. I was second player and did miserably. There was no corn available, so I started with a Hacienda and failed to pull anything useful from it the entire game. Blah. I fell way behind. I couldn't get cash or a good crop going.

Rachel build this incredible infrastructure, including a coffee monopoly and Harbor. Nadine had Factory and early shipping points and sugar. In the end, they tied, with Nadine taking the victory on the tie. I was well behind, just as I thought.

Weekend

As far as the rest of the weekend went, it was a nice retreat with our shul. We hiked Mount Merom area for several hours and the weather was incredible all weekend.

I made some headway into Chris's Game Design book, but then lost the book for most of the day, and only found it again (behind the bed) shortly before shabbat ended.

The Great Experiment

It's very late now. No time to go through all the game news in my box, and all the usual beginning of the month posts waiting in the wings: patents, new blogs, and so on.

Tomorrow I start the great experiment as a professional blogger. The blog actually won't go live until I come back from England (makes sense, no?), but I will go in to work and start working out the particulars and building up a backlog of posts.

That gives me the afternoons free for finishing the Hebrew Apples to Apples, working on my game designs, my blogging here, and so on. But my plan for my first free afternoon is to goof off downtown in a book store.

So you'll have to wait until tomorrow evening for me to get back in gear.

In the meantime, there's an interesting discussion going on at Fortress: Ameritrash.

Yehuda

Internet ... Withdrawal ...

only ... connection ... is wireless ...
to ... blutooth ... through cell phone ...

need ... air ...

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