iSean

ever since i started using coComment (see previous post), i have noticed quirkiness in the comment notifications on my blog. for example, my previous blog entry shows No Comments right now. in fact, there are two comments to that entry. now, it is entirely possible that i messed things up; however, i don’t think i did anything other than follow the instructions for installing coComment . . . and, coComment appears to be working. i’ll submit a bug on that. UPDATE: while i was submitting this, I received an email from the coComment team letting me know that they’re looking into this. terrific.

in other news, i have changed the way my comments operate to look more like my email. no longer will the newest comments appear at the end of the list. now, when you visit comments on a blog entry that has many comments, you should see the most recent comments at the top. this isn’t a big deal, but it’s a nice little time saver for me.

to switch things up in WordPress, i merely added 4 letters (DESC) to the end of line 18 in my /wp-includes/comment-functions.php file. ORDER BY comment_date DESC”); instead of ORDER BY comment_date”); — thanks to this blog for the tip.

if nothing else, having this blog is forcing me to learn much about php files than i ever imagined i’d do. i am now to the point where i can make minor tweaks and sort of understand how to make these edits. i couldn’t write it to begin with, but i can modify things to fit my needs (e.g., the menu off to the right has been rearranged to suit my preferences).