WordPress Plug-ins – Comments
The most important aspect of any website is to facilitate the reader. Blogging has the additional factor of providing a two way conversation, so an easy to use site is essential.
I visit many blogs in the course of a day, and some of them make the very business of interaction so complicated that I tend not to revisit.
The most important aspect is to allow commenting to be as easy as possible. Blogger [the free service] is a nightmare in this respect as it involves popups and Captchas which I hate. In general, most blogs are easy to comment on, but they lack a couple of features which I think are rather irritating.
Another thing which I find irritating is to write a comment, submit it, and then find a glaring typo or omission when it is too late to do anything about it. A very simple solution to this one is to install ‘WP Ajax Edit Comments’. Unfortunately, I see they are about to start charging for updates to this, so I will either stick with my current version, or find an alternative. In the meantime, this allows the commenter a pre-set period of time to revisit and edit their comments.
One plug-in I like, though it is not essential is ‘MCEComments’. This embeds the TinyMCE code and adds the ability to format text in the comments, such as Bold or Italics. The plug-in can be fairly easily tweaked to provide a huge range of facilities such as justification, image embedding and link embedding. Most of these are best left off, but it is nice to have the facility if required.
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Er. My last comment was supposed to be a numbered list!
Aha!! That all depends on the way the theme treats CSS! A different theme would more than likely have worked.
Why is your latest blog in the archives and the opening blog, the one we see when we visit your site, one from months ago?
You have me there, Paulo. When I enter the site I see the latest post. Which post are you seeing? And how do you visit the site? Via RSS, bookmarks, mail?
The lead blog for me is one dated Jan. 14th and titled ‘ compulsions and quanderies’. April blogs are at the head of the archive list. Sorry but I don’t know what RSS etc. means. I’ve built up a Favourites list of bloggers but I haven’t a clue where I go to read them except to the aforementioned Favourites list. I got yours from your brothers blog (hee-hee) and just did “add to favourites” and there you are.
I know this may sound like a stupid question (and it probably is) but are you sure you added the correct link to your Favourites? If you link to the main site (https://apipeandakeyboard.com)n there should be no problem. If however you accidentally linked to https://apipeandakeyboard.com/2010/01/14/compulsions-and-quandaries/ then you will always land on that page.
AHA! let me check that out and I’ll get back to you as soon as one of my daughters explains it to me. Standby. It certainly sounds like something I would do, unknowingly.
Brilliant, and I didn’t even need the daughters. Thanks. Now I have a bunch of other blog sites to correct the same way.