Well, I think it’s done now. All the functionality of the old site is restored and I can finally go back to regular posting schedule. But we also have some new features:
- Comments and ping-backs are enabled on this and all future posts.
- ISBN search and soon-to-be-implemented multi-site support for the Amazon pages.
That’s it for now. I watsted a whole weekend to get this stuff going, but finally I have been able to find the neccessary bits in the WordPress documentation. There you go!
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testing testing
seems to work! I am totally impressed, as usual in such situations!
Anyway this comment textbox is overlapping a little bit into the menu on the right.
May I suggest implementing authimage to prevent you from comment spam?
And please shut off email address being required in this form.
Hello,
I think you know who this is. I am the terrorist being held for one which in reality is none!
I know nice rhymes, but thank me later cuz I want to thank you first for giving us all the opportunity to post our comments in your weblog and implement the next level of junk-information in the internet.
I like this.
In case you don’t know (jack) who I am, search 4 “high blood pressure addictives” in the internet or on other weblogs.
Sincerely,
your Doorstopper
p.s.: If you still offer to, we should go on a filming session with Maxime and the ******** van…it’d be great.
@Timo
Thank you for stating your impression. Let me address some of the issues you mentioned.
First of, I didn’t set up CSS styles for the comment form just yet. I’ll get to that, though. Comment spam is also a non-issue, since I implemented Spam Karma, which should be quite effective. If it doesn’t do the trick, I may actually rethink your suggestion ;). About the email address: As the form clearly states, the email address will not be published in any form on this website. So this should not be a problem, I think. It’s just for my pleasure. If you mind, you can still give a fake address like
timo@example.org. Please use the domain names reserved for examples per RFC2606. I don’t like messing around with real domain names you don’t really own.@Doorstopper
Thanks for commenting, too. I almost marked your comment as spam when I saw the third paragraph – but then I read the post scriptum….
Using a fake address (only example.org of course, what do you think of me? :wink:) is no problem but I don’t get the point why people should be compelled to fill that part of the form out.
That Spam Karma sounds interesting as there is no visible part of it in the front end but after a short review of the site it’s not really clear to me how it works…
Well, what it does is basically two things: It builds some rules depending on how I rate the comments, that are coming in. Then it runs all new comments through this ruleset and decides, if it is spam or not. I get a weekly summary of comments. If I spot a comment that is illegaly marked as spam, I can restore it. Of course it does also work the other way around.
Let’s say you post a comment with interesting links on the topic of my original post. Spam Karma knows that I already approved two of your comments and gives your new comment karma. It then sees you have given more than three links, which is bad, and it reduces your comment’s karma. You still make it to the site, because approved comments give more karma than too much links in a comment take away. So your comment appears on the site. I later approve that comment. Spam Karma now adds rules that whitelist all domains you linked to. That means, if some stranger posts a link to the same site, because it contains interesting stuff, Spam Karma will give his comment karma for that link. This makes it more linkely, that his comment will get through. You get the idea.
It is basically working like bayesian filtering in your favourite mail client or on the server side. The more comments I classify correctly, the more comments will Spam Karma classify correctly. And all that without interfering with the user experience.
I don’t know, if the concept really works, but I’ve heard all the best.