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And I have no idea why I misspelled "apache". Twice.

@TomJNowell It's an appache server. there's one specific directory I want to have the server require basic auth on. The directory only contains images, pdfs, and the like; so WP shouldn't need to get involved. I dropped a .htaccess file into the directory pointing to a .htpasswd file (but might have bungled the AuthFile path therein) .. but what is happening now is that WP is returning a "Sorry, we could not find this content" message in our site template dressing.

I'm trying to set up basic-auth for a given directory on a wordpress site .. but what works on a regular site doesn't seem to be working here (instead of being prompted for a password it looks like wp is handing the request) I feel like this might be a too basic question for Q&A and so was hoping someone would point me to a webpage with instructions.

One week of garbled data to untangle now.

hmm .. core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44154#comment:1

stupid question: If I store with update_user_meta($id,$key,$text), should I expect get_user_meta($id,$key,true) == $text` ??

probably well. it's from the various reddits.

ah, a different kind of gif. In another community a common genre of questions pops up and the traditional answer is "please refer to the flow chart" .. and a link to i.imgur.com/EwiChyD.png

(btw, never seen/heard of this armageddon gif you mentioned)

Slow internets are a pain

(That is, the staff person in the office might say "show me all changes since I last downloaded, which was at 2:34:01 PM yesterday)

(when I say "dates" I actually mean "datestamps" with seconds level granularity .. but I can do grab a whole day's worth and filter out the slop offline)

do these buckets need to be pre-setup, or can they be made on the fly?

And wouldn't be "searching" them, just retrieving the full list when needed.

Kinda makes sense for speed reasons since those taxonomies would start with zero records and only slowly grow, rather than start at 10,000

If I wanted to find which of 10,000 users have changes submitted between two dates, I'd go look at a list of user ids I stashed into taxonomies when saving the data for those changes into user_meta?

use taxonomies as a kind of index thing to query instead of users?

uh oh.

We are logging user requested changes into a "changes" meta, one great big array which also have dates associated. We then want to find all users that have changes between 2 dates, which we can do if we stuff the change dates into "changes_dates" using add_user_meta instead of update_user_meta. We then want to be able to flush out old changes later on after they've been handled elsewhere.

oh .. no concept of "order". OK, that changes things

wouldn't that also delete the other visits_dates on the same date?

@TomJNowell ok, but if I have (say) a user_meta for "visit_dates" and another for "visit_reasons", and someone visits twice on one day for different reasons, and I know (somehow) it's the 5th entry in the list .. how do I delete just that 5th entry from both user_metas?

So, this is a simple "what function am I looking for " question. I hope.

OK, assuming that understanding is right ... how might I go about zapping an individual value at some index. Example, after 5x add_user_meta(key, value) I would see get_user_meta(key) return an array with 5 values. How would I delete (say) the 2nd and 3rd values?

And thus get_user_meta returns an array with multiple values, and not just everything in [0]

I think I understand the difference between update_user_meta() and add_user_meta(), in that the former always affects user_meta[key][0], while the latter instead adds the new value into user_meta[key][+1].

Can I ask a simple question my google-fu is failing me here?

hmmm .. one rust monster later ... "does a parasol count as 25% soft cover concealment vs missile attacks?"

This is for a giant, with height & reach advantage etc.

No no, think of the grass cutting action ... imgur.com/gallery/hibRdPY

Lousy weapon, man-sized vs man-sized. Stupid clumsy polearm, or suicidal ankle-slasher.

Giants don't need to worry about someone poking them in the chest/head/arms because, y'know, tall.

A scythe isn't usually used as a weapon, because (a) it leaves your arms/torse exposed as very difficult to parry etc, and (b) opponents can usually move about as much as you could reach, so at best an awkward area-denial.

Then I won with: a scythe. A mutha-heckin giant scythe. Snicker-snak there goes a dozen heads, swish a platoon are now footloose and fancy free (and screaming on the ground).

A brief diversion as we imagined a giant, stomping about the battlefield, with no weapon in hand ... but a giant lute instead. He's a bard. He's big in Cleveland. Big everywhere actually.

The outraged and insulted orc captain followed, and suffered an AoO from the barbarian. The bard had successfully converted his puny attack action (d6 dmg, -1 to hit) into a devastating 2d8+4 dmg with +4 to hit (magic + strength). High fives all round

Did a quick play-test of 2e combat with full suite of combat actions (and no stupid fumble rules). Players loved it. The puny bard, with a STR 7, charged forward, did a Called Shot, and did the ol' Zorro mark on the orc's chest. Next turn he withdrew/disengaged, making sure his movement went past the hulking great barbarian.

@BESW Add Auto-correct to that list of ways. Deadly.

hey all

=)

This Fri-Sun would be better, about this time of day or later

@Shalvenay family day here sadly.

To which I'm adding house-rules for Press, Stand Ground, Flank/Lead, Distract/Taunt, Snipe.