Comments on: Golly gosh, that’s a lot of plugins!

By: kristarella

kristarella — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:38:59 +0000

Hey LaurenMarie! Thanks for stopping by!
I used to have pink smilies that were very cute, but they clashed when my current theme was red. Grey seems to go with everything!

Typogrify looks cute. I’ll definitely look into Edit Comments, the first time I saw it it didn’t actually work, so I gave up on it and I haven’t used it as a reader. However, I tested it out on your blog just now and it worked! I’ll give it a shot. :up:

By: LaurenMarie - Creative Curio

LaurenMarie - Creative Curio — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:00:10 +0000

*waves* Hello, Kristarella! I like your custom smilies. They stand out because they are not yellow. The Enhanced Links is really great too! Hadn't heard of that one. It keeps things nice and clean on the side there. I really love Edit Comments, as a reader and as an admin. I also just found Typogrify, which for me, a designer, is a must. It gets rid of nasty typography that seems to not be able to be helped on the web.

By: pelf

pelf — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:39:01 +0000

Kristen, you don’t need to create a page template for the Clean Archives page. Just install and activate the plugin, and copy and paste a line of code (available on the download site) into a “New Page” (WRITE > PAGE) and click Publish.

And your Archives will be listed! if you run into any problem, just drop Sean an email, and he will get back to you. He was very patient with me when I needed his help (as I didn’t know anything about creating a page template and I was confused and all), LOL.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:47:06 +0000

That’s something you might want to consider before using SK2 – a few people get weird php errors! Pelf was getting them as well – are you posting from a place with a really big network or something like that? It’s something to do with validating IPs I think. Pelf got them at the library, I used to get them at the hospital I worked at.

I contacted Dave, who wrote it, and he said it was WP’s fault, that updating should fix it and that he’d try to put a fix into the next version anyway. Well, updating didn’t help. I hope the next version does, and soon!

I guess that makes Akismet and SK2 a toss up. As far as I know not many people get these errors, but maybe it’s better for you to have the hassle of checking the spam filtering than readers getting errors?

Ugh… I forgot about that problem, thought it had gone away :cry:

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:25:29 +0000

P.S. kristarella, I am getting weird PHP errors after submitting comments. You might want to look into that.

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:23:38 +0000

I am going to give SK a try.

Akismet doesn’t have any options. You just have to activate it and it starts working. I don’t know whether to call it Akismet’s plus or minus. :huh:

By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:52:32 +0000

Pelf, that is a lot! I kinda thought some of them WP could do by itself, e.g. comment timeout (looking now it seems I’m wrong, I can’t see that function) and Clean Archives – I think you just make an archive page template for that. Anywho, some look useful or fun too. :)

By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:34:09 +0000

Moshin, I don’t have any experience with Akismet on here, but SK2 has worked really well. I don’t know how many options there are for Akismet, but SK2 has a lot of options that may help you target the kind of spam you get and be more lenient on non-spammers. I haven’t had a problem with it (except today when someone commented on year old post!).

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:53:33 +0000

Same here. My plugins have increased from zero to I don’t know how many! :)

Pelf, OMG, are you serious? Now that’s a lot of plugins!

P.S. Kristarella, is Spam Karma any better than Akismet. I am tired of Akismet. It marks legitimate comments as spam.

By: pelf

pelf — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:30:14 +0000

My dear, 14 plugins isn’t a lot. I use 31 plugins (http://chenpn.com/plugins-used/)! :P

But then again, it depends on what you want to do with your blog and all that jazz. I review my active plugins once in a while, and I will delete whatever I don’t need (sometimes I install a plugin because I see another blogger does s0, hehehe).