Once installed this plug-in will replace your theme’s comments template with its own. Giving you threading, pagination and jQuery based roll up of subordinate comments this allows you to keep things tidy. The roll up can be told to trigger at any depth you feel is best using the comments page under appearance. Also available on the plug-in’s admin page is the option to use the other included stylesheet that’s more appropriate for dark hued themes. You can also tell it to use no stylesheet at all. This is handy if you want to roll it into your themes stylesheet to cut down the number of HTTP requests a visitor makes, useful on busy sites. Read more

WordPress makes, in my opinion, the sin of storing serialized PHP data in the database. In my view using databases to store non-platform-agnostic information is always dangerous, but then I spent half my career working on cross-platform code and databases, so perhaps it’s just me. Read more

To download the Plugin, please read the instructions then go to the bottom of this post and click the download button.

It’s often nice to be able to create a profile page or similar, and to display it in a sidebar. You get to use the visual editor, and you don’t necessarily need admin access. Similarly, you avoid the issue of having to work with the much more difficult text widget.

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