[yaysloths]

1. Thanks for the lower-case tip; actually not sure how they ended up in all caps. I’ll blame it on the cat.
2. I hadn’t heard of robots=none either, but a fairly net-savvy friend said it was easier than entering the various individual instructions (since apparently there are some obscure ones besides noindex, nofollow?). A Google search turns up pages that seem to agree (see # 4), but maybe I should change it back to be safe.
3. The intranet idea is a neat one, but I think it’s beyond the scope of my capabilities right now (inasmuch as I have no idea how to go about it). I think I’d feel ok with just the Hidden Forums plugin, but I don’t know how to configure things such that it doesn’t keep crashing the site when someone not authorized (or not authorized yet) tries to log in. I don’t know PHP well enough to manipulate the code such that a person would just be directed to a “sorry, this site is private” page instead of causing the infinite redirect loop. Bummer.

[yaysloths]

Beautiful. I KNEW it was some stupid thing. Thanks for finding it.

[yaysloths]

ok, stuff just got a lot weirder. i made the original post sticky and made a new topic, and the “topic author” code is working for the sticky one but not the regular one. (screenshot.) how the hell did i do THAT?

[yaysloths]

Holy crap! It’s like magic! That is fantastic. Thanks!

[yaysloths]

Hey, thanks for the tip re: hidden forums plugin; I’ll give that a shot.

And yeah, I’m trying to add first poster/author since, as you said, last poster is already there. And I did find that <?php topic_author(); ?> code, but for some reason I can’t get it to work – if you look at the code I put in the first post, you should see it there, but for some reason it’s not working. Do you see anything there I should change? </p>

<p>Thanks for your help…`

[yaysloths]

I, too, would find an example of that page code phenomenally helpful…