Josh Renaud's weblog detailing the exploits of his family in Ferguson, MO, USA. Starring Yoli, Jadzia, Ludi, Josie, and Joseph Renaud.
I just figured this out myself, so I thought I’d share for anyone else who might be wondering.
There are two ways to add a profile pic next to the comments you write here.
The first way is to sign up for a gravatar, which is nice because it works on any WordPress site as long as you use the same email address when you leave your comments.
The other way is to register on this blog and upload a pic to your profile.
After 8 years of using Movable Type software to power my blog, I’ve decided to switch to WordPress.
Most of you probably don’t know what that is or why you should care. I hope that it means a better blog for you, one where comments work better and where you can use Facebook or Twitter accounts to leave comments here if you want.
I took the opportunity afforded by this change to freshen the look of the site. It’s just a slightly modified version of the default WP template, but it looks good.
I liked MT, but it stopped growing in ways that are important to blog writers. What I like about WordPress are things like automated installation and the huge number of plugins available. MT seems to me a dying platform, and it didn’t make sense to stick with it anymore.
Lately I’ve been feeling bummed. I had been writing a lot more on the weblog the last few months … but there were no comments.
So I posted the video of Jadzia. After a couple of days, still no comments.
I thought: “Sure, maybe people aren’t interested in what I’m writing. But how could anyone not respond to this awesome video?” I was puzzled and began to investigate.
Turns out that the problem started when I upgraded my blog software a couple months ago.
And it turns out that you all HAVE been writing comments … it’s just that my weblog classified all your comments as spam!
Thankfully I have been able to salvage all the comments made in the last two months. Unfortunately any comments you all posted between mid-April and mid-May were deleted automatically by the system. (feel free to go back and post more comments though!)
Anyway, order has been restored and comments now should work normally, so please post away!