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The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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13 thoughts on “The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things”

  1. Any progress on getting notices when someone comments or replies to a comment on particular threads again?

    It’s difficult to follow conversations when you have to go back to very post looking for new comments.

    Or did I miss the new app that allows this?

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    1. No, you didn’t miss anything, or if you did then I missed it as well.

      I really did like the recent comments list as it made it easy to keep up with newly posted comments.

      1. Alas, the subscribe-to-comments and recent-comments functions were the domain of two long-since-deprecated plugins that fell by the wayside several WP versions ago, and are no longer compatible with the core software. I gave up looking for replacements in despair a while back, I should probably check around and see if anybody out there in WP World has come up with anything yet.

        1. Perhaps check with Mr Quick as DP still has “recent comments”. I just checked to be sure. Of course it might be an older WP version…

          1. I tried using my DP login thinking I’d have a peek at the plugs Bill has installed, but no go. I only have “Author” privileges, but unless your status level is “Admin” you can’t even see the Installed plugins page at all, it seems.

            1. Dunno why you couldn’t log in. I just now sent you a PW reset email to the mike@coldfury addy.

              I was looking at that list of six editors, of which you is one. Of the six, I’m pretty sure three of them are dead – I know that IronBear is – and I’ve heard nothing from nemo nor JB for well over a year. Nemo was fairly ill the last time I talked to him, and I’ve had no connections via our shared friendship dating back to our mutual boarding school days, so I fear the worst.

              Anyway, if you still have problems logging in, shoot me an email, or I can send you a phone number you can use to text.

              1. I have wondered about Nemo. Searching the NY times doesn’t pull up an obit, I find no news of his passing, so hopefully he is still creating CO2.

                I mentioned it to Steve some time back as I had lost his email. I believe Steve tried and got nothing in return.

                Rare man for sure.

            2. My dashboard has you with Editor privileges. Those stupid icons that appear on comments don’t have anything to do with the actual site privileges. Hell, at least three commenters have higher ranked icons than I do. SteveF is “administrator,” while I am a mere “author.”

              If I gave a rat’s patoot, I’d probably spend a night or two chasing it down, but…I don’t.

  2. Good news, CF reprobates! I did indeed find a newer “recent comments” plugin, which, if I understand correctly, allows me to have inline comments below each post–a feature I’ve wanted to get back again for a long, long while but never have found a way of implementing. I’ll do a main-page post later outlining all the ins and outs; meanwhile, I gotta fiddle around with this nifty little gizmo and see how the thing works. Or, y’know, WHETHER it works.

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    2. Dayum. I just wrote a graceful and lengthy addendum to my comment, tried to post it, and was told I exceeded the edit time limit. Maybe it could be a bit longer? I have comments nested ten levels deep, and no time limit for editing, and I’ve had surprising few problems with that setup.

      Anyhoo…

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