I’ve noticed that both here and my other blog,  I get a message about once a week that people can’t leave short comments. I ASSumed this was a wordpress thing and didn’t dig into it too deeply until I got two messages today about it.

Turns out that WordPress sets the minimum character as 1. Anything else is affected by a plugin (modification, for you non blog running people). Both my blogs have many of the same plugins but I deduced, after some trial and error that the issue was with a spam filtering plugin. Comment spam is a pretty huge problem on blogs.

I use two spam fighting plugins- Akismet and WP Spam Free. The culprit was WP Spam Free. It does not appear to allow for comments below 15 characters. I’ve disabled it for now, to see if I get any spam. Akismet should be fine for the low level of comments and popularity of this blog. If that changes and I start to get a lot of spam coming through, I will have to turn it back on. It just seems to be a bit much and I’d rather get a short comment than none at all.

Please let me know if you find anything else acting strangely. I value opinions and want reading and discussing topics here to be a breeze for all!

Thanks,

The Management

I wanted to point out that I’ve added an archives page that is easier to navigate than going month by month. It was annoying me, to have to dig through it so I can imagine if anyone was trying to read back, that it was not pleasant. that’s all fixed now and you can visit the archive by clicking on A Likely Story.

I am in the process of having a theme designed for this blog. Hopefully that will stop the theme schizophrenia that has been rampant, here. I’m always on the lookout for something that is ‘me’ and while I like this theme, it is a bit more pink than I like. Mostly, this template is ported from a version designed for a much older version of wordpress. I’ve had to do some code wrangling and some things just aren’t going to work with this theme, as I think some of the code is deprecated. So, at some point within the next week or so you will see a neat new theme here. I’m excited about it! :)

I am going to be posting that series of posts that I was talking about the other day, likely tomorrow? Or… over the weekend, I don’t know. I’ve been writing for 2 days and I haven’t really got to where I want to go. ANYWAY, I know that I blog for me and there are things I need to say and come back and read over and over and over again, but I also want to share these things with people.  It would help me to talk about it. maybe it would help someone to read it.

I also want people who regularly read this blog for the funny, snappy, sarcastic to not be blindsided by the seriousness of these posts. Just know, you’ve been warned!