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IntenseDebate plugin uninstalled
Well, after a trial of a couple of weeks, I have uninstalled the IntenseDebate plugin. It had some nice added functionality for the comment page, but was buggy. It slowed the blog down, a fact admitted on the FAQ section of the IntenseDebate website. Also, despite choosing to only need to approve a person once, and then they could make additional comments, I had to approve each and every comment every time for some people, which does not make sense.
Finally, today, three comments were lost. Yes, Bror, that was you. My apologies. I approved the comments on Intense Debate, but they disappeared into the ether.
[Ed. Note: I have been messing with the stylesheet today, implementing some new functionality in WordPress 2.7 which should allow for threaded comments without having to install additional plugins. Hopefully, everything on the website will continue to work. I will return to regular posting tomorrow.]
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Hmm. The approval thing is a setting. I can’t answer for the other stuff (I’m not slowing down, near as I can tell) but the “approve every comment” is a setting that you can turn on and off.
Hey Huw, it turns out that WordPress 2.7 has both Gravatar support already included (since 2.5+) and it also has support for threaded comments already built in. So, I am sending this threaded reply to your first comment as a test. If it works, it means that I can do without Intense Debate and get close to the same functionality.
Works for you! My theme doesn’t support threaded comments, however, & I didn’t want to switch themes. I rather like Gravatars too – I used a plugin for them in my current theme.
Maybe I’ll swap out themes later
I am fooling around today with my blog, to see if I can speed up its loading by messing with the plugins. [Remember to backup first; remember to backup first; remember to backup first.]