Aug 15 2008
Hurray for plugins!
I have nothing of real substance to share, but I did want to share my glee over a few functional updates. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I have finally got a few things working over here that I’ve admired on other blogs. First of all, this blog will now be cross-posted to Livejournal, for those over there who fear to stray from their friends pages.
What I’m more gleeful about, however, is that I can now offer something like LJ-style commenting over here. When commenting here, you will now be given the option to use your LJ, IJ, JF, whatever icon in your comment, simply by entering your name as “username@yourljclone” when you are filling out the comment field. This also supports gravatars. If you don’t have an avatar, the default (for the moment, at least) is Lucydog. :) Also, though I’ve had threaded comments working for a while, I’ve also now got reply notifications working, so when someone replies to a comment you’ve made, you’ll get an e-mail telling you so.
Let me know if you have any trouble! I’m off to check my daily blogs, now, so perhaps soon I’ll have something to say!
Tags: blog functionality
Testing the commenting w/ my LJ!
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WAIT. What email notify thingy? That is ANOTHER one I never got to work.
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jacicita@livejournal Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
AW. My avatar on that account is so cute!
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
It is incredibly cute!
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I will tell you what I used! I used… wait, you can see the whole thing play out in the comments to this fic!
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Just FYI, if you switch to the comment plugin that does the e-mail notifications, I had a problem getting Brian’s Threaded Comments to go away, and I finally realized that it is because it replaces the comments.php file, but when you deactivate it (and even when you delete it), it does not change that back. So you have to get a fresh comments.php file before going forward with that.
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Now you just need to get Ravelry avatars working. :P
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Hell, maybe they *do* work!
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Just checking out the default icon. :)
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Lovely Icon.
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Don’t forget, if you want, you can use your own icon, just by signing in as jansong@livejournal. :)
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mom Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I’ve got to figure out all you’ve said. I don’t understand it. Did you get my e-mail about meeting Joey?
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
When you go to the place where you put in your comment, instead of putting in “mom” just put in “jansong@livejournal” and see what happens! :)
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We’ll see if it works.
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
It does, see?? :D
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got it.
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…okay, i attempted to make a gravatar account! let’s see if this works. (and yay for threaded comments and email notification! and for crossposting this blog to LJ!)
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
You are my first gravatar! :D *heart*
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Kathleen Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
:D how could i resist the temptation of leaving armadillos in my internet-wake?
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Melinda Reply:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I don’t understand how you’ve resisted all this time! ;D
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Life is so easy when you’re a bug. I mean: just checking this out :)
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Melinda Reply:
August 16th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hee! Hello! :D
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Coolio!
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Melinda Reply:
August 16th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Well, hello! :D
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