The primary purpose of this post is to document the changes I made to core WordPress code in order to get comments working they way I want. Since all of this is a hack, I have to re-do those changes when I upgrade WordPress to a newer version. It would probably be best to write [...]
I decided to switch from my aged Drupal CMS to WordPress because my website doesn’t really need all the flexiblity that Drupal offers. I also hope to make maintenance a bit easier — time will tell how that works out. Anyway, this wasn’t a very rational decision that I researched a lot. Maybe I just [...]
While a visiting student in Canada, I blogged occasionally (in German) to let my family and friends know what I was doing abroad. I used Wordpress for that purpose, which was set up as a farewell gift by a friend (who also happens to be my webhost).
When I launched my personal website, I decided to [...]