Today I’d like to talk about link love. Well, less ‘talk about it’, because I don’t need to tell you why it’s nice, but just to let you guys know that incase you weren’t aware – I am giving it out a lot even when I don’t post.
See, a few months back I was having trouble with my reader. Certain blogs literally wouldn’t update and that was driving me insane, so, I asked in Single Abstract Noun which readers people were using and Erc ordered me to try out Feedly, which I believe is a Google Chrome extension. It’s supposed to be the magazine style feed reader, though I like the lists. I have it set up to show blog names and article titles, if an article says in the title, for example, ‘Cataclysm’, then I can quite easily skip past it and read something without Cataclysm spoilers and I love it for that.
Anyway, being part of Google, it’s connected to Google Reader, so I was able to import my blog list from Bloglines (my old reader) and it seems to synchronise. Another feature it shares is ‘shared items’, which I started using to just bookmark posts I enjoyed to come back to for either the link love posts I used to do, or to add to my resources page later on. After a while, I realised I could link to this as a feed in my sidebar and I have done ever since.
Below my Twitter box, you should be able to see ‘Interesting Blog Posts’, which I have renamed, it used to be ‘Interesting Stuff’. and the feed link in the little orange icon should work, if not try clicking here. I share posts that I find interesting, useful, and funny, so take a look, they’re worth reading. You might find something new.
I’d also like to ask you while I’m doing a more generic blogging post what you guys think of the theme changes? Apart from, “Dear God, woman, stop changing your damn theme every 10 minutes!” Because trust me, I know, but I’ve gone back to the old theme that I quite liked, couldn’t find anything else I was 100% happy with. I like the header and the sidebar, I’m just not sure about the background. Anything you might change perhaps? Feedback/constructive criticism is appreciated.
BTW, I noticed that you have ajax edit comments but it’s now gone pay-to-use. Do you pay the fee or access it another way?
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Thanks! I love this theme, it does pretty much everything I want it to do, and it’s nice and tidy. It was the one I was using for a while before I transferred my Hunter.
On Ajax edit comments, I wasn’t aware it went pay-to-use
I installed it a few months ago and haven’t really touched it since then. Perhaps it remained free for people who already had it installed and active on their blogs?
You probably just don’t get updates on the plugin. Eventually it may break…
zelmaru recently posted..One-week subscription to that “real life” game
Possibly, I gave up on WordPress.com Stats in the end. Somehow got it working again on my other blog but not this one despite having 2 API keys /sigh. Couldn’t see anything else worth using when I checked either.
If the comment editor breaks, that’s not *so* bad, I haven’t checked but there could be something else out there? If not, oh well
I like the new theme. I love how you manage to find themes with those cool tabs that separate trackbacks from comments. I’m a sucker for that stuff.
I will have to try out this “feedly” thing of which you speak.
zelmaru recently posted..One-week subscription to that “real life” game
I like the theme, including the background! I may have a fiddle with it for myself at some point…
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I like the new theme, but the background can maybe be changed a little. I almost liked it more before it loaded (and it was just a dark purple) – it seemed to fit better with the header image. Other than the background the theme is really nice. But maybe a less colourful/busy background would be nice
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I didn’t like the background plain, there was too much space, I just think the current background is a bit too bright at the top, aside from that it’s not *too* busy, just need something a bit darker that’s still interesting enough, buuut I’m stuck for ideas at the moment. Thanks for the feedback.
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