So far in this How To Style Your Comments series we have been organizing exactly what we want to show in our comment area. In this part we are going to get down to the actual styling. If you are looking for inspiration there are several sites you can have a look at that have collections of comment designs:

In this second part of the how to style your comments series I will show you how to seperate or remove track-backs and pings from the comments. there are many tutorials out there on this subject, but many of them can be confusing to the non programmer as they say find this line and add this after or before it. This tutorial is different, it shows you all the needed code in comments.php so that you can see exactly where the additional code goes.

The comment area of a blog is often neglected in terms of design and usability when compared with the rest of the site, so I’m going to show you a number of ways that it can be improved. I shall be using the default theme that comes with Wordpress.

I have already written about the importance of having your pages validated. One thing that has bugged me since joining EntreCard is that the widget does not produce valid code, instead there are three warnings or errors produced.

Now that Wordpress 2.5 has been out for a while, the bugs and problems have risen to the top. Some are a little lost on where to find stuff and find things, here’s a handy FAQ.

Finally! Wordpress 2.5 stable is out. Wordpress.org has also been redesigned to match the new Admin Panel colors. Note that the Host requirements have changed with this version, you now need PHP 4.3 or greater and MySQL 4.0 or greater.

I had a couple of questions from Etta Rose in the comments of my last post. So I thought I would make a post of them as the answer is a little long for a comment Note this is targeted to Wordpress, but you should find similar functionality in other blogging applications, so here goes…

Visit almost any popular website and have a look in the address bar. To the left of the URL you will see a 16×16 pixel image or icon. If you then bookmark or favorite it you will see that icon when you scroll through the list. If your browser supports tabs you will also see the icon in the tab. In most cases the icon is a static image unless you use Firefox or Flock.