Comments on: Practical WordPress Tip #19 Link to other comments

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Thu, 06 May 2010 00:48:41 +0000

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By: Valentina

Valentina — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:47:14 +0000

Whooh!

Away for a few days and there is month’s of info to absorb and implement! Awesome! … Now I know what you are getting at, or at least have an inkling!
So there is a science to it all.

Nose to the keyboard for the next few days …
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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:12:53 +0000

[...] This is really cool. It’s so cool, I even wrote Practical WordPress Tip #19. [...]

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:10:22 +0000

Good to see you again Blake.

Yes, very few blog writer exploit a tiny fraction of what hypertext is capable of achieving. Linking to comments is just one small example.
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By: Blake @ Props Blog Rewiews

Blake @ Props Blog Rewiews — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:08:28 +0000

One thing I’ve seen authors use linking to comments for is within the comment section itself. When you start getting more than a dozen comments, it’s hard to keep track of who said what unless you’re using nested comments. Even then there are many flaws with the system.

Chris Pearson (author of thesis theme) strongly recommends using links to comments to make conversation easier to follow for everyone involved.

I’m glad to see other blog authors talking about this :)
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:56:45 +0000

@Josh – Some of this stuff might qualify for “old school.”
I think part of why some people sneer at “blogging” is because the technical quality of the hypertext is so lame… never mind the writing. Most people treat a blog post as some sort of Microsoft Word document they can magically post on the internet. Which does short shrift to the medium. Might as well run blogs from Google Docs.

@Eleanor – There is a LOT here. Some of which I don’t believe you will find anywhere else.
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By: Eleanor Edwards

Eleanor Edwards — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:01:51 +0000

I now know some great people to turn to when I get stuck. It seems you guys are an untapped mine of useful tricks and tips. Just need to buy some more time to implement some of it now ;)
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:02:18 +0000

Won’t work if you aren’t an admin on that blog.

I’ll have more to say about comment linking in near future.
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By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:00:05 +0000

I think it’s pretty cool too – I’ve noticed you using it to highlight skipping parts of the article that aren’t relevant to some – beats having to split the article if you don’t want to and risk people leaving because they couldn’t be bothered finding the right post with the right info.
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By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:56:54 +0000

If you look in the comments menu and view all your approved comments you can do the “copy link location” on the date, ie: Submitted on 2010/01/29 at 9:28am – the italics part is usually a permalink to the comment.

Not sure if this changes by theme tho.
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