Tag Archives: comments

Manage Your Comments: Recaptcha In, Akismet Out

July 15, 2008 – 9:46 pm

Akismet, the native WordPress comment spam protection service, spams a lot of good comments on my blog. I don’t always have the time to check it for false-negatives. As a result, I probably have missed at least some comments from many great writers, friends, and visitors. I’ve suffered with it long enough. Today I deactivated it and now I’m using Recaptcha. In the future I may use them both in concert with one another.

By Damien Riley | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged akismet, blogosphere, Discussions, Entrecard, networking, plugin, Recaptcha, spam protection, Wordpress, wordpress plugin | Comments (0)

"Be Nice!" I Said to Myself

May 29, 2008 – 2:35 am

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Boy that is sometimes easier said than done. Have you ever got so uppity at someone only to find out later you were wrong? It’s a bad feeling let me tell you. Kind of like when your baby has a really bad diaper and for the life of you you can’t remember [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Health | Also tagged energy, internet, Nice, opportunity, wit, world | Comments (0)

PowerPoint is a great tool! Want a Stumble?

February 3, 2008 – 3:07 pm

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I’ve officially become a “regular” contributor over at Edublogs magazine which is edited by Lorelle VanFossen. This is an enormous sense of arrival for me in my writing career since education is my life and coming up fast behind is blogging.
Lorelle has been a hero of mine in blogging for quite a while now. [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged blog, blogs in the classroom, Damien Riley, Edublogs, Education, hero, life, Lorelle, opinion, Teaching, tech, Technology, themes, VanFossen, Work, working | Comments (0)

1 Step Gravatars on your WordPress Blog

November 26, 2007 – 11:42 am

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Get Gravatars on your WordPress Blog in 1 step
No plugin required! Just one copy/paste in your comments.php file will make gravatars miraculously show up ( for commenters that have gravatar accounts) 1 step:
Directly before: <?php comment_text() ?>
paste:

<?php
if ( !empty( $comment->comment_author_email ) ) {
$md5 = md5( $comment->comment_author_email );
$default = urlencode( [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged blog, Code, Gravatar, Wordpress | Comments (0)

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