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Quick Right Voices site update

By: Lisa On: Aug/26/08 -

I snuck in here tonight to do a little site maintenance.. hope anyone wasn’t inconvenienced with the small bit of site downtime that resulted during the upgrade process. I’ve been busy in the last several months writing the second edition to my book, WordPress For Dummies (I published the first edition in Nov. ‘07 - - the second edition goes to print in October ‘08!), so I haven’t been able to provide back-end maintenance to this site as often, or as much as I want to. With the conventions and the elections really heating up now, I wanted to make sure to upgrade and improve some areas of the site to continue to make it an enjoyable and easy experience for you all! Here’s some additional features:

  • Upgraded the site to the latest version of WordPress 2.6.1. You really won’t notice a huge difference for the end-user of the site, but it made considerable improvements in the guts of the site which will result in faster loading of the site, overall.
  • Gravatars! I redesigned and adjusted the display of your comments on this site a bit. The comments now display your Gravatar if you have one. Gravatars are those small pictures/icons next to your name in the comments. If you don’t have one, the default Gravatar will show next to your name. If you have one - your custom Gravatar will show. If you want to get one - visit Gravatar.com and get one!
  • Editing comments. I’ve implemented a feature that will give you the ability to edit your own comments after you’ve hit the submit button. This gives you the chance to correct any typos or phrasing you’ve used in your comments.

Those are the highlights, for now. If you have any suggestions on other features I could include that would make the site a better experience, I’m all ears!

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8 Responses to “Quick Right Voices site update”

  1. Robert
    August 26, 2008 - 09:29 PM on August 26th, 2008

    Kewl! I like the fast loading, I like the new look, the Gravatar, and the chance to edit after posting.

  2. Lisa Sabin-Wilson
    August 26, 2008 - 09:33 PM on August 26th, 2008

    Cool, Robert - glad to haer that it’s faster loading now. It was dragging a lil bit, I think :)

  3. Pam
    August 26, 2008 - 09:57 PM on August 26th, 2008

    Thanks so very much! It looks great Lisa!

  4. Lisa Sabin-Wilson
    August 26, 2008 - 09:59 PM on August 26th, 2008

    Thanks, Pam - - now you just need a Gravatar! :D

  5. San Francisco Liberal
    August 27, 2008 - 09:06 PM on August 27th, 2008

    Very nice!

  6. Lisa Sabin-Wilson
    August 27, 2008 - 09:10 PM on August 27th, 2008

    Thanks! :D

  7. Robert
    August 27, 2008 - 09:42 PM on August 27th, 2008

    Nice Gravatars! I am a little reluctant to put a photo up, though. Is it possible some Jihadists, or some Leftist psychos would surf here then stalk you?

  8. Lisa Sabin-Wilson
    August 27, 2008 - 09:47 PM on August 27th, 2008

    I dunno - my picture is all over the place at this point with my web businesses and books I’ve published. I haven’t had a stalker since back in the days when this site was Boycott Hollywood :D

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