I admit it, that sometimes I am little slow. In this particular case, my slowness is causing some of my blogs using WordPress to be slow when loading up and it took me until the other day to realize it. What is the slowness and why? Well, frankly it is the customization that is available with certain themes these days. Granted, I have not taken the customizing as far you could run with it, but there are more than a few themes out now (of which, at least two of them I have used either now or in the not so far off past) that you could run on two sites and not have anything similar on them.
I think I have touched on this one briefly once before, but that the heck are the folks at Automatic/WordPress thinking with this move? For those not acquainted with what I speak of, consider that the stats counter that has been provided and ran for standalone WordPress installations back through the WordPress.com site is now being migrated into the Jetpack plugin suite. I have some problems with this move and so should everyone else who has been using the WordPress blogging platform in the last several years.
If you have been here to Mephistos before, you may have noticed a slight variation on the color scheme today. I am giving in to the dark, er, light, side of things and giving it a try. For those that do not recall, the typical scheme in the last year or two has been a dark green back ground with bright white text on top of it. At this point, I am giving it a try the inverse direction, which is, according to some weird law of internet acceptable visual presentation the more proper way to do things. Granted, I am just giving it a try at this point but I do welcome thoughts and opinions on the matter.
Yesterday I received an email indicating that an advertising agency named PAKBB that was purportedly a world-wide representative of several international brands had interesting in placing ads on this very blog site for a French based designer company named Lacoste. The email went on to say what kind of says banners they were interested in placing, that locations would be required on all pages, and that Lacoste specifically deals in apparel, perfumes, and designer footwear. My initial thought was this is pretty cool, a little bit more money to help pay the way for the blog, but…
DISQUS Comment System
By Ray on July 30th, 2011
Anyone out there using the DISQUS comment system on there WordPress based blog? I have been debating it for a little while and seeing it more often all the time on various blogs and even other sites. It has some nice features but I am wondering if there is catch that would leave me regretting the choice later. Also, in some limited testing I did a little while ago, it seemed that some of the integration was a bit lacking, wondering if that was just my limited testing or exposure of something I failed to set up. Thinking of plunging into it with my blogs but would like to hear experiences first.