Current Mood: Happy

Here’s the new theme! Hope everyone likes it. Everyone but the spammers, that is!

What does that have to do with the theme? Well, the new look also has the latest WordPress backend on it. Complete with Akismet.

Akismet is an automatic blogspam-killing plugin included in new WordPress packages, which makes short work out of spam elimination! In fact, if I just let it clear the spam quarantine on its own, it makes NO work out of it!

So, I’ll be turning comments on for most posts after this one. This may or may not affect old posts, but new ones should be commentable. I won’t allow comments for the Sponsored posts, regardless. I know I sure wouldn’t want to sponsor a post and then have the ad wrecked by people deciding to mention the competition, LOL…

I’ll still moderate comments, so don’t be worried if you make one and it doesn’t insta-appear.

On other matters, there are still some tweaks to be made to the new look. The text is a bit too small, I don’t like the font…little things like that. And I just noticed there’s some stupid PHP error in the footer that I’ll have to fix.

On the good side, I get a few capabilities I’ve always wanted. You’ll see that this post has a “mood” icon. I’ve always thought those were cool, since with an icon, I can make a note of it, even though I rarely want to make an entire post dedicated to my mood. And, I have the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, too, so somewhere a tag cloud should appear. It seems to take about 20 posts or so before a tag cloud really shows its strength of being able to point out what subjects are the most common/popular, so have patience…Also, I’m not sure how the coloration’s going to come out since I set it for the most popular being maroon-linked, and the least ones in gray (I’m hoping for a gray-red middle level, but who knows?).

Now to hit Publish and see what comes of this!