The Great Comment Debate
Blogs are built around comments.
WordPress News & Notes – July 24, 2009
These days there are so many excellent WordPress blogs and articles, it can be hard to keep up with all the brilliant WordPress articles around, so here are some great articles I’ve saved on my feed reader; feel free to add some posts you’ve found around the web in the comments. First up, ‘ 10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks ‘ on Smashing Magazine by Jean-Baptiste Jung of WP Recipes fame
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WordPress’s default comment system isn’t exactly the greatest, and whilst you can improve the comment system manually, not everyone has the time or skill to do so.
Collection of WordPress Comment Hacks
There are all sorts of WordPress hacks people can easily do to customize and improve both the look and functionality of their WordPress blog, but I’ve always felt that the comments section is one of the best ways to truly customize your WordPress theme. After all, blogging is all about author interaction, and the comments go a long way towards conversations happening. If you are looking to improve the comments field of your blog’s theme, Instant Shift recently took the time to feature a number of comment hacks, which can be viewed here . Looks like they’ve already got 30 hacks included, including a few we’ve featured here in the past. Related posts: Great Collection of WordPress Hacks How To: Display The Most Recent Comment First Announce Your Comment Policy with Comment License WordPress Plugin How To: Adding Comment Numbers To Your WordPress Theme
Warning: WordPress 2.7 Comment Pagination Creates Duplicate Content
One of the lesser talked about features introduced in WordPress 2.7 is the new feature that breaks comments into multiple pages to create faster load times. By default, this feature is activated and set to allow 50 comments before the break. The problem is, with this new feature activated, your WordPress blog is creating duplicate content.
Segregating Comments and Trackbacks In Admin Panel?
For quite some time I have been struggling to moderate comments on my technology blog, the problem is not only with an abundance of comments, but also with lots of trackbacks/pingbacks. Now, for me pingbacks are really good, but it adds to a load while moderating comments. I do know that they can be disabled, but I don’t do it for a simple reason, which is to keep track of people who are linking back and sending trackbacks.
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