More Focus on Comments to Come With 2.7

The feature list of the next milestone release of WordPress, currently scheduled for early November of this year, was released a few days ago, and several blogs have already covered the announcement. One thing that caught my attention was its focus on comments. Comments on weblogs has always been one of the best ways to create a discussion and receive feedback on your writings. With WordPress 2.7, we might see more attention paid to comments than ever before. Read more…

Someone Please Save WPDesigner

Someone Please Save WPDesigner

When Small Potato gave up his baby (wpdesigner.com) to a man who goes by the name of Pawel Ciszewski, it was a sad day. I, like many others, decided to give Pawel some needed time to get things squared away and then, jump right in and take over where SP left off. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be happening. It’s been quite awhile now since Pawel’s introductory post with nothing new posted since then. The post has over 200 comments and some of those comments are now appearing as spam.

Near the bottom of the post, someone ended up posting a comment showcasing how one could impersonate Pawel. Since that post, there have been people making it look as though Pawel has announced the closure of the site, theme club prices rising and various other things. I realize this is a bad situation for many of you, especially those who spent $5.00 to get into the club, but from the outside looking in, some of the comments left by the imposter’s were a little humorous. Note that the following comments were made by imposters and not by Pawel himself.

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Separating Comments and Trackbacks

One thing I don’t love about WordPress, is its way of including comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks all in one list, and doesn’t provide an easy option to separate them. Separating these gives your comments area a cleaner, more professional feel. Here’s how to do it:

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