Tag Archives: wordpress

Giving Disqus A Hurl

At Kay’s recommendation, I’ve tossed IntenseDebate, and trying out Disqus for managing comments. Seems to be a little bit less intrusive, so we’ll see how we go.

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New Feature: IntenseDebate

I’ve just added in a new feature here on TheGeoffRe(y)port, called “IntenseDebate“. It’s a plugin from Automattic (the main WordPress guys), that is designed to improve the commenting functionality of the blog. The main features I can see are that if you want to reply directly to a comment, you can hit the reply button, [...]

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Wordpress 2.7 – Just Makes Sense

I’ve been a big fan of the Wordpress platform since the moment I started blogging on wordpress.com (I had one of the early invites and managed to snag “geoff.wordpress.com” – it now seems a shame that I’m not really using it), and I would love one day to put the tedium of Oracle Database Administration [...]

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Making use of geoffmatheson.net

Quite a while ago, when there was some sweet deal going somewhere for cheap domains, I registered geoffmatheson.net (geoffmatheson.com has been taken for quite a while by an American graphic design guy). The address sat there for a while, then I tried out Drupal on it, then gave that up because it seems to me [...]

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Spamalanche!

If it wasn’t for Akismet blocking all of the filthy (and I do mean filthy) spam comments I’d have probably closed this blog down by now – or at least turned off commenting. It’s incredible: only a couple of weeks ago I was about to post on having received my 2000th spam comment, and now [...]

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