Comments Provided by Google+

Comments have been turned off on my blogs for months, and I’ve been happy with the result. Gone were both the SPAM comments and the less than useful comments. There is a full discussion of my reasoning in a Google+ post, should anyone be interested. Recently, I learned that one could add embedded Google+ Comments on any page. Naturally, this appeals to me since I send my users to G+ to comment anyway. This...

Introducing The Rant-o-Meter WordPress plugin

This morning I wrote a bit of a rant about the Verified by Visa password limitations and an issue came up that has come up for me before. How to quickly, but comically, let someone know what they are getting into when they come to a post on my blog? Like some kind of “Rant indicator” to make them aware of what my mood is? [rant-o-meter mood="Happy" align="right"] I’ve thought about making one for a...

Wildcard Subdomains with A Small Orange

Real quick post to add to the Googleverse about setting up a wildcard subdomain with A Small Orange, which I recently tried to do and couldn’t figure out right away. If you, as the documentation and the support ticket staff both told me, go to the Advanced DNS Editor to enter a wildcard DNS record, you get an error. As you can see in the image, the validation states that the Name must be a domain with an...

A quick intro to Github for WordPressers

Yesterday, I was honored to speak at WordCamp Portland about using Source Control systems with WordPress. The talk was meant as little more than a 10,000 ft view of some of the reasons you might want to consider using source control, and some of the possibilities that it presents. As always, the 10,000 foot view is good for a comic introduction to something, but not for any real understanding. Thus, I wanted to...

WordCampPDX in 0… 15… 30…

Today, I created an outline, but more on that later. Right now, I want to talk about WordPress. I love WordPress. WordPress is a dream come true. It’s a great writer’s platform, it’s a great programmer’s platform, it’s a great tinker’s platform… It’s also a total and complete pain in the ass. Like many great things, it’s virtually perfect. And, like many great...