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The Bulletin 
My first comment disappeared when I bookmarked the permalink. Maybe it is awaiting moderation so I won’t repeat what I wrote ‘cept for ‘is this a memorial for a dead blogger?’ Not too keen on that name but I wouldn’t make it an issue.
Shaping up well, Mrs Harrington-Baxter. You obviously know what you are doing.
I don’t think I’d stay long on the site if it wasn’t for you.
The following are some thoughts at random, and I appreciate some of them might not be possible, but here goes:
Can we write comments without using Disqus? Not that I care, it probably adds another layer of complexity.
A time stamp for comments.
Photos in comments.
Videos in comments.
Traffic to blogs displayed on the home page (saves opening the blog to find out).
The usual up ticks and editing.
Being WordPress I assume it is HTML friendly (I’m an idiot; this will be answered when I post this)
Actually, I’m racking my brains (and I’ve had a hard day) for all the facilities that Shane Richmond provided which won the old MyT site best site in the newspaper world and were systematically stripped out by various couldn’t-care-less successors. They’ll pop into my mind while I’m sleeping so I’ll be back when I wake up and anyway I’m sure you can remember others. Make the old site a template as close as you can.
I’m agog to see how we post blogs.
You don’t know how much I appreciate this. MyT was a bigger loss than many of us would admit.
xxx
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p.p.s – I forgot, a facility to switch for newest and oldest in threads.
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Unfortunately not for the user. I can switch it but it applies to the whole site.
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Oh. Something I shall have to get used to then. Never mind. A tiny grain of sand in your oyster of excellence.
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I hope my comment helped (an excuse to use the reply function)
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p.s. – front page to accommodate say a dozen blog titles?
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Yes, it will – I think! You can just scroll down because the blogs will all be there in date order.
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Even better!!
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Re HTML. Yes you can use it in comments but some of the code doesn’t work. From memory it uses strong not bold but either may work.
You can change the colour if you know the code but I don’t know if it works in comments. We will see.
That worked then.
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‘strong’ or – there is a subtle difference, but both work well for our purposes.
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As a died in the wool ‘old comments first’ user, the present ‘newest first’ grinds my gears. But I’m sure you can provide the switch option when you have the time.
The edit facility is at present sorely missed, but I know you can’t do everything at once. I’ll just have to be more careful.
Have you seen the Guardian’s ‘Preview’ option?
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That is a pain, I agree. It is not possible to edit comments on other blogs although you can do so on your own thread, and there is no preview option. 😦
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Oooops!! Reproducing code can have irritating results.
The alternative was, of course,
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Damn! See what I mean? It was without the space!
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I give up!!
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Legality of posts, you publish in UK so are bound by UK laws…
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True. Ciaran
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Nice weather we are having…
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It’s a bit chilly in this part of the world. 🙂
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Here too!
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Hello Araminta, thank you very much for the platform.
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If you would allow me to post on your new site I would be most grateful, but I will understand if too many people are asking for the privilege.
Charles
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I have just sent you an invitation to become an author, Charles.
Do let me know if you have any problems via the Contact The Administrator Form or a message in the Facebook Group.
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Thank you so much, Araminta. I’m not sure where you have sent your kind invitation, but it hasn’t reached me. Not that it matters now that we discover I am registered with Gravatar and am therefore not allowed to join WordPress.
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Ah, Charles, Gravatar was to to with MyT and avatars which is probably why you registered with them. I am so sorry you are having such problems. I sent the email invitation to your gmail account so if you receive it and try again it may not involve Gravatar.
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It is possible that I may have succeeded in joining WordPress. But I fear I have no idea what my gmail email address is.
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Let me try again.
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Amazing. I just did a google search for gmail. I clicked on the result and it automatically logged me in to my email address. I have therefore been able to accept the kind invitation to join the Bulletin.
Charles
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Hiya, thanks to Charles recent facebook post, I saw this site. Does this comment mean that I am in?
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Hello Gaz.
Yes, it does. I’ve just approved your comment so future comments shouldn’t be held in moderation.
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