Image by premasagar via Flickr There are a lot of plugins out there to help with the old commenting function in WordPress. We had all manor of ajax plugins, and nested comments plugins, plus the email-the-user and subscribe-to-thread plugins. Here is a list of the functionality that is now INCLUDED with WordPress 2.7.x. Ajax loading of reply-to-comment form ability to respond to individual comments in a threaded manner - similar to a forum ability to edit your comment after publishing fully customizable appearance This does not mean that your template will automatically produce … [Read more...]
Finding and Using a Gravatar
August 14, 2008
Is your theme gravatar-enabled? If it is, you'll see a small image in each comment. Gravatars are images that represent your online presence anywhere on the internet. Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatars. With WP 2.6 we can now include a default image that matches your site instead of the little grey head. We can set the size of the gravatar and placement within the comments. How cool is that? All these mods are done through the code in your theme, and why you need your site designed by a professional me. I imagine there are plugins that modify this sort of thing … [Read more...]
3 Spam – blocking Tips
Some examples from my online week: trackback on this site for "international calling cards" 88 spam comments this week (I only posted twice) including some sneaky ones, like "I hadn't heard of this before! I will be back for sure!" from "00211234@gmail.com" went to a website yesterday that told me I had a "virus" and had a pop up window that I could NOT close except for closing down the browser. (I am currently running a malware scan in the background to see what kind of interesting tidbits THAT site left for me.) 67 Spammy Emails yesterday to just my personal account only (not … [Read more...]