Boring Wordpress Junk

Posted by jen March 25th, 2007 in Jeneral.

Okay folks, so I’m still adding some handy plugins (scripts) so I’ll need your help to kick all the tires and junk since many have lots of default settings I’m not sure about.

Plugins added:

Live preview (under) the comment field as you type. Please play with it.

Subscribe to comments for any post of your choosing, if you feel so inclined give it a test.

A few extra spam blockers to back u p Akismet (links for both at the end of the footer), so please leave comments when you come even if it’s to say hi or “testing testing, 123 123″ to make sure it’s not blocking YOU. A couple commentors have come in as spam without getting a notice (I fixed it!), so if you don’t see yours go up immediately, or by the next time you come back, let me know

Can now edit your comments. It should allow you to edit for 55 minutes after originally posted.

Email posts or add them to any of a number of sharing sites like de.lic.ious or Technorati, etc… if you use one give it a try. It’s at the end of every post.

Use Smilies in your comments.

hock: :twisted:

:evil: :eek: :cry: :wink: :mad:

I hope to add more to the list but can’t seem to figure that out yet. (and I have to find some Duran Duran smilies, just because)

Comments will close if they are older than 120 days. (Because who really cares 4 months later?)

A variety of sidebar widgets, to keep me out from constantly messing in the code.

Some flickr plugins, woot (only a couple are actually activated so far)

On/Offline IM alert for Messenger to the sidebar, give it try!

If anything fouls up let me know it, my email is on the contact tab or the about block on the right.

Also, I could use someone with wordpress experience to lend me an IM/ear about moving something around. I’m not sure what part/s of the theloop.php I need to touch to move the comments link to below the posts… looks like there is more than one type of page effected and I’m not too sue footed in there yet. I think it makes more sense to be after since you will see it after you read the post. (What say you guys?)

No I don’t know why the page scrolls sideways yet, I’m working on it. i’m also not sure how much of the above will live full time on the new vbb, but it’s fun to play with.

Oh and be sure to try the slider, aka “rolling archives”, over the top post. I liked it so much I removed the actual archive list as the roller seems so much faster. Click and Drag the slider, baby - or just use the older/newer links. :grin:

And those on LJ remember the VBB LJ feed and my SCA LJ blog since not many over here understand or like to hear me whine how unfair the the fake Middle Ages are.

2 Responses to “Boring Wordpress Junk”

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1 Dreama Mar 25th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

Since you mentioned the LJ feed, you might want to consider the Better Feed plugin that will add a footer to your posts in the RSS feed so that people will come here to comment directly rather than commenting on LJ. Why LJ keeps their native comment ability intact on RSS feeds puzzles me. It’s ridiculous.
2 Wes F. in North Adams Mar 26th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

Just checking to make sure I’m not spammy.

WF