Facebook Comments
I’ve been noticing lately, that a lot of blogs are using Facebook for their post comments. This allows anyone with a Facebook account to leave comments on any applicable blog post. The advantage here is that if you’re logged into Facebook during the time you visit Ledfrog.com, you will automatically have access to leave comments on my posts without having to login to my site or use WordPress in any way. This also makes it much easier to have your comment instantly appear rather than waiting for moderation.
My only concern at this point is how SPAM is managed. If I can integrate Facebook comments with Akismet, then I will most likely have this feature integrated by the end of June.
Link Re-organization
As you may have noticed, I use a lot of forwarding links to 3rd party websites. For example, rather than linking to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ledfrog/, I can simply link to http://ledfrog.com/flickr. This practice was started a long time ago as an easy way for me to tell people how to find certain content without having to write down long URLs. Of course, this was long before URL shorten services were so prevalent.
However, as time passed, I ended up with a lot more of these links than I prefer and some of them have even been duplicated! I even had an old standard where I used the word “jump” before every URL just to separate these links from standard links. At this time, I plan to consolidate these links, delete unused ones, recreate more simplified versions and basically just keep things organized.
Theme Changes
There are no proposed plans to change the entire theme at this time, but the color scheme might be changing. I’m playing around with this idea to better suit the original theme colors of blue, white and black. There will not be an official notification if or when this happens. The changes will go into effect immediately and without warning.