Service Update Update – Blogs and Beyond…

[AgentPete]

Since everyone can see (I hope!) the new home page feature “Latest Articles from the Author Platform” I thought I should update you about… well, what’s going on!

I don’t want to explain the why’s and wherefore’s of the Author Platform quite yet, we’ll do that when were closer to launching. Suffice to say, it will be a gargantuan leap forwards.

As you can see, there’s now a feature on the Colony’s home page featuring the most recent article to appear on the platform. Feel free to click through and read – and preferably, leave a comment or two as well. We’re still at beta stage, but it’s working pretty well.

More soon

 

[Bloo]

Hi, Peter...

Not sure if related, but all the blog comment avatars are set to the Gravatar logo. WordPress sucks at custom avatar generation, so your options to change it are quite Gravatar-centric. I think the same guy runs WP and Gravatar, so yeah.

Anyhoo...you can choose autogenerated options in WP (such as retro avatars). I think those can be set to load externally only the first time so you're not bottlenecked by someone-else's server.

Of course there are plugins that allow custom avatar outside of Gravatar - or you can code it. But you prolly know all this. I've only been using WordPress since April.