A built-in commenting system is one of the reasons people reach for WordPress (and often stay there long-term). While I do think having a comment system is compelling (and as big of a fan of building on WordPress as I …
One of the arguments against the Jamstack approach for building websites is that developing features gets complex and often requires a number of other services. Take commenting, for example. To set up commenting for a Jamstack site, you often need …
JAMstack sites are often seen as being static. A more accurate mental model for them would be that they are sites which have the ability to be hosted statically. The difference might seem semantic, but thanks to the rise …
Akismet is an incredible spam preventer for WordPress sites. I’d say it does 95% of the work for us. A few issues though make me want to augment it with other tools:
We get a decent amount of comments on blog posts right here on CSS-Tricks (thanks!), but I’d also say the hay day for that is over. These days, if someone writes some sort of reaction to a blog post, it …
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with optimizing performance through lazy-loading. Recently, I’ve written on how to lazy-load Google Maps and on how to lazy-load responsive Google Adsense. Now it’s time for Disqus, a service for embedding comments on your …
Read Christie Aschwanden’s first paragraph. If you’ve written anything that elicits comments, I’m sure you can relate.
There is plenty of data here to digest, and also further speculation:
…I had a hypothesis: Maybe this commenting-without-reading phenomenon represents a variation
…As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and
In this pairing screencast, Sarah Drasner joins me and guides me through some of my very first learnings of React. We tackle some “real world” style functionality: a comment form.
This turned out to be a pretty useful bit of …
