wordpress makes it way too hard to make the comments show up on the front page
yeah.
i mean, i did it anyway, eventually, but it’s just silly how many convoluted ways people try to get it to work, and enough people seem to have been trying for enough versions that i would think it would be easier by now. i ended up utilizing this plugin, but it wasn’t even really written for the express purpose. someone just suggested a way to use it therein. so continuing kudos, in a way, to the wp wiki and the community which sustains it, as it has so far proven a very rich resource. but then again, why the flip aren’t things like this easier to do?
maybe i should write a plugin.
in my next bit of free time.
:)
part of my problem seems to be that the theme i am using (and slowly but surely bastardizing to fit my own ends) was apparently written in what has now become old-skool terminology, so a lot of the code is just flat out different from “the way things are”, as presented in most of the discussions on the wiki. so i end up having to change a lot before i can even see whether their recommendations will work for what i want to do. this is a good learning experience, really, but it’s also a hassle. i guess, at the end of the day, not knowing How to change something is better than knowing i’m not Able to, as would likely be the case if i were using an externally hosted blog. but still… i want people to be able to change their cake and eat it, too…
or something…
anyway, now the comments are on the front page so you can check them out if you had any trouble finding them before, and you can also read a pseudo-rant that i just wrote in response to poor “Guest,” who gave me an excuse to say a few things about anonymity in comments that i have been thinking for a while, and therefore unwittingly came to stand for all “Guests” in the world, which surely isn’t fair, but so it goes.
i’m feeling better today (thanks for asking!), and i will hopefully continue to be productive in other arenas as the day goes on…