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Paged Comment Editing by Brian “ColdForged” Dupuis is a very useful gem for sifting through comment spam.

In my attempt to become the most plugin-ed person in the WordPress universe, I’ve installed Ryan Boren’s Theme Switcher. You can see on the sidebar that you can now choose which theme you want to view my blog with.

I’m only up to 12 active plugins so I think I’ve got a ways to go. You can find mention of all the plugins I’m using in the WordPress category. Searching for the word “Installed” is also a good bet.

Joy.

update 9-28-05 Because it’s not compatible with WP-Cache-2, I’ve uninstalled Theme Switcher. :-(

If I ever reinstall it, the command to run Theme Switcher is:

<?php wp_theme_switcher(‘dropdown’); ?>

I’m hoping that this theme, with it’s dark background is a bit more readable. I’ll be tweaking it over the next couple weeks. Tell me what you think about it.

And of course, you can switch back to the old theme if you like. I’ve installed Theme Switcher. :-)

update 8-24-05, 10:45am By the light of day, I’m not happy with the Dark theme yet. So the Light theme is still the default. You can try it out with the “Theme” thingie in the sidebar. Again, tell me what you think.

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.

Installed Alex King’s Popularity Contest plugin. It keeps excellent stats for the admin on how popular each blog post is. It also shows users a list of the most popular posts by category, month, etc… in the sidebar.

I found this plugin via the Weblog Tools Collection plugin competition.

The front-end is nice and the back-end (what the admin sees) is beautiful.

I just threw $15 to Alex for this and other things he’s written that I use.

[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.

By Mark Jaquith. It was a total snap to install and its a gosh darn terrific plugin!

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 just upgraded from WordPress 1.5 to 1.5.1.3.

[mini-woot]
It was really quite straightforward.
1. Backup backup backup
2. unzip WP 1.5.1.3 on my computer
3. upload it to my website, overwriting everything that might be overwritten.

Done.

All my plugins and add-ons still work just peachily.

Thanks PhotoMatt

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)