Tales of an American moveable family
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Comment Timeout, if you want to know, is an awesome plugin.
If you have a Wordpress blog and, like me, do not enjoy spending a few spare hours manually closing comments on old posts, but also, like me, get a lot of spam on old posts that you’ve neglected to manually close comments on and have been unable to get Auto-Close Comments to work (hint: It’s not compatible with Wordpress versions 2.1 and later ) this is the plugin for you.
I’ve added back the page with a tag cloud for searching this blog by keyword. I hope this will give people a more detailed overview of our experiences here than they can get just surfing the categories.
For example, posts specifically about the Insadong area of Seoul can be found by clicking the word Insadong in the tag cloud. Also, my love affair with Papa John’s can be found by clicking either the ‘pizza’ or “Papa John’s” tags.
I went a little crazy when I first started tagging posts, so the cloud was pretty overwhelming. I’ve tried to cull things down, eliminating tags that only had one post, for example. I’ll probably do some more trimming, but it’s a start.
In case you are curious, I use the plugins Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 (be sure to get the latest version if you’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.1) and Simple Tags (really only necessary if you use Technorati.)
So, I think this is the last template change for awhile. December turned out to the crazy month I developed some sort of Wordpress theme-induced psychosis and started rapid-cycling through designs on a daily (and sometimes minute-ly) basis. There’s just so much out there to choose from.
As another blogger recently said, blogging is really just “narcissism for introverts” and this month, I guess I got it bad. I kept searching for that Holy Grail of coding-inept bloggers—-a template that would be easy enough for someone with next to no design skills to modify, letting me tweak it enough show some personality, but with limits on how much I could screw up.
My first attempt was with the excellent Sandbox theme, which I still think is awesome. But there, as many of you could see, my reach exceeded my grasp. I still have it, and one day, once I have learned a lot more about page design and CSS, maybe I’ll give it another try.
So, adieu, fair Sandbox. (And, cute cousin Simplr). For now, PreBuilt is more my speed. I’ve added a few things already, and it will probably get a more Seoul-ified header over the weekend. But, for now, I promise the page will (probably) stay the same.
Please bear with me while I work out some customizations to the new theme.
I know some people have said they like the larger type. But I can’t help it, I just feel like the page is shouting at me. (”HEY! WE LIVE IN KOREA! READ THIS BLOG, YEAH?? OKAY!!)
Anyway, have to work out my own issues with that. But, for now, this is the new December look.
ETA: If it’s really bugging you, you can adjust the font appearance and size in your browser. Just click on View > Text Size.
