One of the first things I noticed yesterday after completing our blog migration to WordPress was that none of the comment author website addresses carried over from Blogger. If you don’t know what I’m referring to, those are the links behind people’s names that leave comments here at the blog and provide their website address.
Since many of the Hawaii fans that take the time to leave comments here also are fellow bloggers or have other sites they are proud of, I felt it only right that I correct the issue as soon as I could. So, the techie in me broke out the software development skills and whipped up a solution to update all the existing comments accordingly, and comment authors who specified their blog or website address are once again being linked to with their comments.
Say Cheese!
One of the many cool things about WordPress is that they support a something called Gravatars. Avatars, as you might have heard, are the pictures people use on message boards, Twitter, and even comments like you see on blogs. A Gravatar is a “Globally Recognized” avatar (g-r-avatar), which means you can create an account at their website, upload your smiling face, and it’s used wherever you post a comment.
So, if you’ve always wondered how those pictures made it into blog comments but never knew how, check out their website, and be sure to add one of your own. We’d love to see you here.
Mahalo to Comment Authors
Going back to the comment updates for a second, I did want to extend an extra mahalo to those that have posted here in the past, and encourage any of our regular readers that haven’t said Aloha yet to drop us a note. While photos and memories of Maui vacations passed are fun to read, your comments and feedback mean just as much to this success and the usefulness of this blog.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. Ask someone with over 3,500 comments on her blog.
- Kris
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