I had a busy night working on my website. First I signed up for a Twitter account, whatever that means. Then I spent forever putting my latest Twitter thing in my sidebar, even though sometimes it doesn’t appear for some reason. Then I upgraded my wp-polls and WPG2 plugins. After that I added in a plugin called Randomosity. It displays random excerpts in my sidebar. It will take a little while to get it going with lots of randomness since I’m just starting with the excerpts.
I really want to use a plugin called Wavatars, but I need some GD2 Library on the server and that’s over my head. I sent an email asking Nick to help, so I’m sure I’ll get it activated by the 10th of never. It looks really cool though. There’s all these goofy looking avatar faces that are somehow assigned to email addresses, so whenever you post a comment with a certain email address, that Wavatar shows up. And the same Wavatar will show up anytime you use that email to post a comment on any blog that uses the Wavatar plugin. And there are 55 billion Wavatar possibilities so there shouldn’t be any duplicates. It also incorporates Gravatars somehow, so if you already have a Gravatar account it will just show that instead.
Careful with that twitter plugin. Twitter is down all the time so if the plugin queries the twitter site everytime jillapalooza.com loads you might see jillapalooza take forever to load. K’s tweets are displayed using “SimpleTwitter” which caches the tweet so it doesn’t cause any problems for cklahr.com. I was using Twitter Tools which caused all sorts of loading problems.
You’ll need to install the php4-gd package for that wavatars thingy.
Tried the SimpleTwitter. No php cURL installed, which is above my level of geekiness. Must start a honeydo list for Nick.