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That’s better: see what’s been commented on recently

I’ve installed a number of (free) Wordpress plugins – specifically, fuzzy recent comments, fuzzy recent posts and fuzzy recently updated by Semiologic.

This means (if you look down on the right-hand side) that you can see what the latest posts are, which pages have recently been updated (this only refers those publicly visible within the /blog directory) and who’s been commenting on what. I think that this will – until I get the forums up – give us the chance to follow the discussions going on here more effectively.

Your feedback always welcome, of course. I am trying the forums; it’s a question of getting the headers consistent with the rest of the site so that people won’t disappear into some sort of black hole there. Sure, the site isn’t consistent anyway, but improvement can be incremental.

(As I write this I’m watching the BBC Panorama program on the mad money-go-round within the NHS which describes a “double whammy” for going into debt… under the rules the government sets. They have to pay back the debt and lose it from their budget of the next year. One can see why the trading funds aren’t keen to be there.)

3 Responses to “That’s better: see what’s been commented on recently”

  1. Robin Rice Says:

    This doesn’t have to go on the public blog, but it was the only way I could find to contact you. There is a broken link on the articles page to the Crown Jewels article. It just goes to the articles page. I can’t find a link to the original article anywhere on the site.
    (I’m telling lots of people about all this, which is why I want the link to work.)

  2. Charles Arthur Says:

    Thanks – those links now fixed, and updated with the latest articles.

  3. Roy Says:

    The general area of ‘articles’ seems to note be represented in your index on the right.

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