Press This « WordPress Codex

I used “Press It” quite a lot a few years earlier when I was doing more blogging. I recently installed a new WP 2.7 blog and decided I would likely be using this feature quite a bit.

Usually you would find it at the bottom of the screen when you are making a new post… but this time it wasn’t there.

Thanks to the WP Codex I quickly learned that  it’s been moved into the Tools section.

What does “Press This” do? It allows you to quickly comment on a page anywhere on a web by opening up the “Write Post” page and dropping the URL you want to comment on into the posting box.

Along with the Clipmarks  extension for Firefox, blogging about content you find on the web is made much easier.

No, I’m not a technophobe.

I’m actually a techie… I’m really tempted to say ex-techie because the word conjures up sordid memories of multiple pagers strapped to my side all going off with numbers for hand-wringing, hypertensive IT directors.

The real problem is - I’m just not feeling like a big adventure right now and if I break this blog it’s likely to suck hours of time that I don’t really have just to fix it.

So why bother? Well, I guess I’m a little greedy.

There’s a nice new plugin that I was introduced to by Dennis Becker  - it’s called Comment Luv.

What makes this plugin so desireable is that it provides a really cool link back to the latest blog post for the commenter.

For some reason it’s not picking up this blog’s feed. I was thinking that an upgrade might solve the prob with the feed being picked up.
It should work fine here going the other way though. If you comment I expect you’ll get your link back.

Or the blog may go up in flames.
Anyway, if you have your own  blog, try it out. I think you’ll like it.

Or at least the idea.

I don’t like tedium and that’s what cleaning up after spambots or paid-to-posters is. Big time.

So today I took these steps…

• On my niche blogs where I’m not engaging in any conversations I renamed wp-comments-post.php and wp-trackback.php so comments are impossible.
• On this blog I deactivated DoFollow and installed Lucia’s Linky Love. This  means that spammy comments won’t be given any link juice. So there… (Thanks to Tinu for the tip.)

That should save me an hour’s work every now and again. Heaven knows every minute counts. You should try it if you need a little more comment control.

Sabrina