I’ve set “Subscribe to Comments” to “on” by default. That means unless you uncheck the box at the bottom of your comment, you will receive an email any time someone else leaves another comment on the post.

Tell me if you like this. If not, I’ll change it back.

[I installed this a couple weeks ago but forgot to blog it.]
Here’s a little something to make writing pretty comments a little easier.
I took it from Scriptygoddess, who took it from Alex King.

The tags I use in my lineup are:
bold, italics, blockquote, link close tags

You should see these buttons just above the Comments field when you write your comments to me. They make it a little easier for you to add HTML tags to your comments.

From Jennifer’s site (this was written for WP 1.2. The instructions are a bit different for newer versions. I’ve installed it for WP 1.5 just fine)

To use the “mini” version I made:

1) Download the js file and upload it to the root of your domain.

2) Open up your wp-comments.php page [in WP 1.5, comments.php in your theme] … Look for the beginning of the comments form - (search for “<form” in the file) and put this just above it:

<script src="/js_quicktags-mini.js" type="text/javascript"></script></form>

Look for the text area field for comments which looks like this

<textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="40" rows="6" tabindex="4"></textarea>

and add this directly above it:
<script type="text/javascript">edToolbar();</script>

And add this BELOW the textarea field:
<script type="text/javascript">var edCanvas = document.getElementById('comment');</script>

This is the method I’m using on this site - although I added the “h3″ tag just for the one I use, since that’s what I use to stylize code on this site. You can easily add more… or start from scratch using Alex’s.

I just installed the Search Everything Wordpress Plugin by Dan Cameron. It makes the little search button on my blog search comments as well as posts.

I put a new set of random images in the upper right corner of the blog. Click on an image to make it larger. You can view them all here (sorry about the poor interface, but hey). Most of the images on the site are shrunk-down versions. Contact me if you want a full-size version of anything. (If I don’t know you, I may or may not oblige)

The new green color theme is an attempt to harness the powers of springtime. I dunno. Maybe I should go back to the drawing board.

Feel the love…. I guess. So far it seems like 6 of one, half a dozen that have to be hauled in from the garage… of another. I’m sure I’ll appreciate it soon… after I’m done picking all my plugins up off the floor. Hurumph.

When you mouseover items in the blog, they now look a bit snazzier. This is due to Nice Titles.

It uses Javascript to snaz-up the title field of a link. I like that the site still works perfectly well without the script…. but the snazzing is well appreciated.

I was also going to use the nice looking semi-transparent .png from the site above (here’s a great transparent PNG maker) but Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t properly support transparent .png files Phoey on them! There are ways around this problem, by using the IE AlphaImageLoader Filter, but it’s a pain in the neck. I’m not much interested in jumping through Bill’s hoops when an internet standard exists and Bill doesn’t follow it. Besides, you know that such a browser-specific solution will require upkeep. Just like when IE 5.5 came out and my old company, Wavexpress had to scramble to re-write web pages because the new version of… I think it was I-Frames, wasn’t compatible with the old. We were working directly with Microsoft engineers on our project and we hadn’t gotten even a 1 day’s heads-up that the new release of IE was coming or that it might mess anything up. So Phoey on Bill.

There’s even a petition with 20,000 signatures asking Bill to put this promised native functionality into IE.

I kinda like the look. What do you think?

I’m liking Wordpress a lot but the default stylesheet is far from ideal. Well, I guess it’s a matter of preference and customizations… Well, the new style sheet gives nice clean lines. I’m sure it’s a never ending project.

I’m such a sellout. But hey… I tried out Google Ads on my Hampsterdance page about a month ago and I’ve ALREADY MADE OVER $0.74 in clickthru advertising!! Hampsterdance is the most popular link on my whole site so I don’t expect to rake in quite so much from the rest of the site.. but hey.

The ads appear in the right column, below my links and such.

I just installed the Page Navigation Plugin, page-navi.php from Lester Chan.

It lets me put a navigation bar on my site like this:
Pages (6) : Previous Page 1 [2] 3 4 Next Page … Last »

It installed in about 5 minutes (and then of course I had to fiddle with it for 30 minutes…. but it installed very easily. And that’s very nice. :-)

I made a slight improvement in 1.2 that you might want to integrate into the source.

This starts at line 36. New code in red.

$numposts = $wpdb->num_rows;
$max_page = ceil($numposts / $posts_per_page) ;
 
// Return added by LCS 1-15-05. This causes nothing to be displayed if there is only 1 page
if ($max_page == 1) {
    return;
}
 
echo $before.’Pages (’.$max_page.’) : <b>’;
if ($whichpage >= 4)

Without this change, Page Navi is a little obtrusive when I put it in a prominent spot in Index.php and I’m displaying only 1 post… like when I’m viewing archives.