Ryan's Journal

I was told Wordpress 1.5 had been delivered by someone trying to run my software and brutally failing. Sorry about that.

I had to edit some admin functions to solve a referer requirement and fix the stylesheet to make small text readable. Maybe I'll get around to submitting a patch one of these days - my net searching found lots of one-off hacks that didn't really solve the problem.

In case you want to make a fix yourself to the problem described by the gramatically incorrect error message: "Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work," you may want to replace the function check_admin_referer() found in wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 456 with the following:

function check_admin_referer() {
  $adminurl = strtolower(get_settings('siteurl')).'/wp-admin';
  $secureadminurl = substr_replace($adminurl,' https', 0, 4);
  $referer = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
  if ( !strstr($referer, ltrim($adminurl)) && \
 !strstr($referer, ltrim($secureadminurl)) ) {
    die('Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for \
 this feature to work.');
  }
}

You should replace the \ character by removing the line break following it.