Blog updates
This blog was in need of some love, so i decided to tweak it a bit, upgrade WordPress (yeah, finally) and add some plugins:
- Changed the old crippled OpenID plugin for this one. You can now use your OpenID to comment here with no trouble at all :)
- The essential comment subscription plugin.
- And replaced categories for tags.
If you know of any other plugins which better suit these purposes, let me know, but these ones are great so i guess i won’t be changing them that soon.
April 16th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Cool! That reminds me that I also should allow OpenID on my blogs! If we want to embrace it we need to support it :-)
April 16th, 2007 at 5:30 am
Damn, if you’re not authenticated with OpenID prior to submitting the post it will get cleared out! Happened to me right now. I think I’ll delay using this plugin before it’s stable enough but I’ll definitely keep your post as a reminder! :-)
April 16th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Yeah, that’s a bummer. I need to try commenting on a LiveJournal (or some other) blog and see if the same thing happens. However, if you want OpenID with WordPress this plugin seems like the best way to go, which is always better than nothing :)
April 16th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Yeah :| Livejournal let’s you comment right away. I have to look into this.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Oops. Disregard that !
The post doesn’t get cleared out. It’s just held for moderation :)
The plugin author pointed out this, and it’s true. Works like a charm.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Then that was it! But still I didn’t receive any confirmation that the comment was submitted!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:23 am
I’ll quote the plugin creator, Alan Castonguay:
“Honestly, I think that LJ’s mechanism is perfect. It makes use of a comment preview loop to give the second comment box. Wordpress doesn’t have much of a mechanism to support this feature, apart from hooking into another kludgy comment preview plugin, or duplicating the work myself. If comment preview is put into the Wordpress core, this becomes easy.”
I’ll just put up a warning explaining how it works.