Once Upon a Geek

So I finally broke down and upgraded to WordPress 2.5.  When I first created the “Once Upon a Geek” blog, the current release was 2.3.  I set up the blog using version 2.3, got it just like I wanted it, and then launched “Once Upon a Geek”.  Something like 15 pico-seconds after I launched my site, they rolled out version 2.5.  And apparently there were enough upgrades that everyone and their second cousin have been pushing me to change up.

Well I’m on vacation this week, so I took some time to do it.  It was somewhat of a pain: deactivating all my plug-ins, seeking out versions of plug-ins that worked with WordPress 2.5, deleting and replacing all the files, reactivating plug-ins, etc … etc.. blah ditty-blah…

With all that said and done, I’ve finished updating the blog.  Now we just have to see if everything is working.  If you run across a bug, or some feature doesn’t appear to be working anymore, please give me a shout.

As always, thanks for reading.

Hey gang - I just wanted to let you know about some new functionality for comments on my blog.  I think this new feature will make comments much easier for users to follow.

The new feature allows someone making a comment to have further comments to that same post e-mailed directly to them.  For example, let’s say you make a derogatory comment on my post about Aquaman.  Instead of having to remember to come back to my site to see if I wrote a scathing comment back, you can just opt to have any further comments e-mailed directly to you.  Very handy!

I believe this will help to foster dialogue back and forth, rather than having to manually check for responses to your comments.  Below is a screen shot showing you where you select to have follow-up comments sent to you via e-mail.

If you are running WordPress and are interested in this feature, it’s a plugin called “Subscribe to Comments“.  It hasn’t been tested for WordPress 2.5 yet, but it definitely works on 2.3.1.