In WordPress, you can enable an option that requires commenters to supply a name and an email address, but oddly enough, it doesn’t validate the email address submitted. This is simple enough to add, as WordPress already has a function for validating email addresses, and because it can be done via a REALLY simple plugin.
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When someone leaves a comment on a WordPress blog, a cookie is saved to their computer with the name, e-mail, and URI that they entered. This is quite handy for most people, but it may bother those who use public or shared computers. Wordpress does not by default have a way for commenters to specify that they don’t want their info saved to a cookie, so here’s a way to do that.
Warning: This is not just a plugin. You are going to add a few lines to a core WordPress file. Just so you know.
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I’ve been going back in and modifying some existing posts - and I thought it would be useful to see a list of posts that were recently edited.
This function would go in your my-hacks.php file. I created it quickly for my own uses - wanted to keep it here for “code storage” - but you will probably want to customize the code so that it does what you want it to.
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This function will list all posts, and group them by day. If you want to use it - add it to your my-hacks.php file. (See more information on how to use my-hacks.php here - link via Carthik)
Again - I made this function specifically for a personal use - so there’s not a lot of ‘easy customization’ without specifically editing the code, so I apologize for the lack of ease-of-use - but I wanted to post this for my own “code storage”.
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Some habits are hard to break. In the MT world - comments and trackbacks are different animals. Maybe just because I’m used to it that way - but that’s the way I prefer it. A trackback/pingback isn’t a complete thought. Comments (usually) are. When reading the comments section, I find it disrupting to see a trackback in the middle of the discussion. When I’m ready to leave the site and read another opinion, I will.
Ok, I’ll get off the soapbox now. Greg asked me how I separated the comments and trackbacks on this site. Here’s how:
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