Drupal 7.x

Something weird is happening. When i upgraded from 6 to 7 all the comments by anonymous people are missing. It shows 100"s of comments waiting for approval also in the comment approval queue but i cant actually see the comments.

So only comments that were posted by logged on users can be seen. And the permissions are set correctly for anonymous users to comment.

Any help would be great.

hi i am new in drupal , i am working in drupal 7 , i want to display a block on front page which have an image and text as a slide show
what are the requirements for this.

just like the in the given

http://ddblock.myalbums.biz/text_examples

Maybe i am just blind, but I can't find a function in the api to get a list of all comments by node id, can someone point me in the direction of such a function!?

Cheers.

I've been trying to get my blog to display the short date/time format but I can't find any type of setting around anywhere. I have a separate node--blog.tpl.php but I don't even reference the date/time in there. I just have the print render($submitted) and so somewhere else it's telling it to include that format.

If you know how to change from long format to short format I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

I've been trying to figure out a way to add to(not override) a template. I'm using a subtheme of Boron. There is currently no override of the default page.tpl.php in the theme. So, I've been reading over the subtheme documentation and it stated to add a page-xx.tpl.php to my theme directory.

I've added the following as page-button.tpl.php:

i have search and haven't found adequately explanation on how to modify forms on D7
i would specifically like to modify the registration to include a check box for terms
(im trying to escape installing extra modules + also learn the methodology in case i want to modify more forms)

im a newbie so i'd appreciate a lil extra info

ty