Serial readers may notice that I’ve been fucking around with my theme again. Somewhere along the way I accidentally dropped it into a bucket full of bells and whistles! :shock: I fished it out, but a few of these flashy thingies and whatsits got stuck on.

What’s new:

  • Comment Luv: Now, if you have a blog and you put its address in the URL field when you comment, Comment Luv will add a link to your last blog post at the end of your comment to give you some “link love”.
  • NoFollow Free: But what good would comment link love be if WordPress were allowed to stick a “nofollow” attribute on it, thus preventing search engines from indexing it? Not very, that’s what! If you have at least three previously approved comments, any links in your comments have their “nofollow”s removed.
  • WP_MonsterID: Avatars! And not just any avatars: Monster avatars! This plugin automatically generates a unique random monster for each commenter’s email address (which means that comment from the same person has the same monster, unless they change their email address). It also supports Gravatars, so if you don’t like your monster or have another image you want to use instead, get a Gravatar and it will replace your monster. (I think I’m going to turn Gravatar support off, though, ’cause you guys all have these cool monster avatars and I’ve just got my mutant chicken and now I’m jealous.)