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Steve posted the following on June 29, 2008 at 10:45 am.

I turned off the Snapshots feature as it a) is simply too distracting, and b) they have now added annoying Flash ads that play every time you run over a snapped link. The ads can’t be dismissed, at least as far as I can tell. I did ad Share This, which allows you to notify your favorite service that I have posted.

Steve posted the following on April 1, 2008 at 8:54 pm.

OK, this is the official comment to the modifications page. Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, reactivated and upgraded several plugins, tossed others that were incompatible or not used, and got rid of incompatible themes.

Steve posted the following on March 30, 2008 at 9:23 am.

Another snag, the Digg theme is having a conflict with the Flock browser and Del.icio.us on my Mac, so I am going back to K2. It seems to be the most bullet proof theme I have.

Steve posted the following on March 30, 2008 at 9:09 am.

I am still working on the comments, hoping to get Collapsible Comments to work in this theme. I have turned back on the CapCC plugin, if anyone is interested.

Steve posted the following on March 30, 2008 at 9:06 am.

I have now deployed a Digg look-alike template. I will eventually do some tweaking to this once I learn the CSS to make it happen, until then, I think this is the cleanest theme I have, even though some of my Twitter post links flow beyond the edge of the sidebar.

Steve posted the following on March 30, 2008 at 9:02 am.

OK, I have found Comment Sorter, a plugin that does just what I want it to do. Not only that, if there are trackback piings showing in the comment list I can choose not to show them. Sweet.

Steve posted the following on March 30, 2008 at 8:31 am.

So, here is the scoop on comments for Wordpress.

Most plugins that do something to the comment editor either

1. Don’t work at all
2. Don’t work correctly with the theme you have deployed on your blog
3. Don’t work with Safari

For rich text, I am now using the Firefox/Flock plugin, BBCodeXtra. It creates a context menu in the browser that allows you to highlight and markup the text. Recommended.

Also, I am looking for a plugin or method that will allow the reversing of the quote order so you can read the newest comments on an post sooner.

Steve posted the following on March 27, 2008 at 11:46 pm.

OK, lesson learned today students. If you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, don’t fart around with the status quo. Turns out that comment plug-ins play all sorts of hell with the system, so I am not going to be doing anymore of that anytime soon. I am going to be trying out Wordpress 2.5 here on my local machine, so I can see how that comment system plays out.

Steve posted the following on March 27, 2008 at 5:45 pm.

I went ahead and added Ajax’d Wordpress for csc. This makes the commenting system as pretty as Disqus or Intense Debate, without it being hosted off site. It also adds comments inline and rich text editing to the comments entry box.

Steve posted the following on March 27, 2008 at 2:59 pm.

I have now added Ajax’d Wordpress to csc, if you leave a comment to a post, you can see it in action.

Steve posted the following on March 27, 2008 at 8:15 am.

I’ve been diddling with the comments on the blog for a couple of days, trying different plugins and I’m not satisfied with any of them. If I do make a change, I will let you know here.

Steve posted the following on March 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm.

I have now added the Flickr Photos plugin. It allows me to display pics from my photo streams on csc.

Steve posted the following on March 1, 2008 at 1:54 pm.

Updated Wordpress to version 2.3.3 and also updated all plugins that needed it as well.

Steve posted the following on February 28, 2008 at 3:53 pm.

OK, email notifications of new posts are going to be handled by the Subscribe2 plug-in for a few days. If it works, let me know in an email.

Steve posted the following on January 26, 2008 at 2:47 pm.

I found a three column theme based on Kubrick so that is the one that I am using because it doesn’t knock out Ajax plugins like K2 seems to. I have added a poll plugin and one that lets you see how many users/bots are on the blog.

Steve posted the following on January 26, 2008 at 12:40 pm.

It seems that going to the standard comments page has broken the live comments in K2 and the Ajax Comments plugin I just purchased. I have gone to the standard way of refreshing the page each time a comment is added and that should solve the problem until I work it out.

Steve posted the following on January 26, 2008 at 12:27 pm.

I have added the Wordpress Antispam plugin, that is why comments are open to everyone. This plugin is designed to catch 99% of all comment, trackback and pingback SPAM from bots trying to do that. In concert with Akismet, this should nip this issue in the bud.

Steve posted the following on January 26, 2008 at 9:48 am.

I have now bitten the bullet and purchased ecto for OS X. I am waiting now for ecto 3.0 to come out of beta…

Steve posted the following on January 24, 2008 at 12:08 am.

Changed over to the K2 theme because the old theme didn’t comply with some of the plugins I wanted to use.

Steve posted the following on January 22, 2008 at 10:13 pm.

Now, whenever you leave a comment you can subscribe to them so you can see who else commented on the post. You may have to refresh to see your comment materialize.

Steve posted the following on January 20, 2008 at 7:07 pm.

Now I’ve added a little thing that when a user registers, it sends them an email with their information and an email to me that a new user registered. In concert with CapCC and Akismet SPAM guard, this should keep bogus crap to a minimum.

Steve posted the following on January 20, 2008 at 6:49 pm.

This update brought to you by capCC. This puts a captcha (a little picture next to comments so that bots can’t leave a message) on the registration form and every time you comment. Even when I comment.

Steve posted the following on January 20, 2008 at 5:18 pm.

csc is now upgraded to Wordpress v. 2.3.2 and all plugins that I am using have been reactivated or updated. Plugins I am not using are now deleted.