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Love, Hate and Third Party Comment Systems

Jan 19 2010 / 2:14 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Fresh out the box, WordPress comments just are not enough for me. I don’t want someone to have to fill out any extra forms to comment, especially when I despise doing that myself. It is not like this place is some hotbed of conversation so I can understand if people would see extra work to [...]

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Discussing Disqus

Jul 3 2009 / 5:29 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

While we still dig the idea of what Disqus does, it is about time for us to reevaluate the necessity of it.  To be honest, it was installed in an attempt to gain conversation.  When conversation did not happen, it didn’t bother me that no one was talking, but it felt like we put this [...]

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Public Service Announcement

Jul 21 2008 / 7:16 am Was written by Amber View Comments

There are plenty of plugin tasters out in the world. We see a plugin that looks like it will add a feature that we do not really need and add it anyway. This turns our load times into intermissions. In an attempt to stop this habit before it is too late I took this past [...]

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WordPress 2.6 A Month Earlier Than Expected

Jul 15 2008 / 6:00 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Logged in to manage some plugins and WordPress told me to update it. Was not expecting that message for at least another month.
There is a video detailing WordPress 2.6 (which I was going to talk about later this month at some point, but can’t be angry the gift was early) that I will include after [...]

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Comments Are Borked

Jul 4 2008 / 4:51 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Well since there are so few commentors at this stage of the game, it is not a big deal that comments have gone wonky. The bigger deal is that I have no clue what broke them. Working on a fix…but I cannot be too mad, it is likely all my fault.
**Update, I found them and [...]

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Blog Me Up c/o Zemanta

Jun 21 2008 / 10:54 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Been meaning to drop a post about Zemanta for a little while now since we use this service for almost all of the posts here at The SDA. When the site first opened up the biggest challenge was finding the best way to not have to tag the entries myself. Various auto-tagger plugins just [...]

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PayPal Browser Plugin

Jun 5 2008 / 8:02 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

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If you use PayPal but the site you want to buy from does not, use this browser plugin (ie7 and FF2 in Windows).
Lets you pay with your preferred method by generating card numbers to satisfy the website. I dig it, but alas I must wait until its compatible with FF3 because I am [...]

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