Platinax re-opens comments without requiring registration

After reading up further on Wordpress Plugins I’ve been applying a couple of key plugins.

The first is Did you pass math? installed across Platinax.

This means I can feel confident about re-opening comments to guests without requiring registration, after a pretty severe attack of spam a few months ago meant I had to close them off.

Hopefully this means being able to comment should be much easier, especially as comments are not simply invited but very welcome.

This has been applied on this blog, the news section, and also the main articles section.

I’ve also applied Related Posts as Platinax is primarily an information site - articles, reviews, news, as well as this blog. And related posts is such an excellent user-centered feature.

I’ve also applied a custom XML publishing solution to the news section, so that every news story publishes latest news between related posts and user comments.

And, yes - that means that Platinax is built mostly on Wordpress - the articles section, news, and blogs are all individual installs.

I had hoped to have a single Wordpress install for the entire Platinax site, but was unable to as there no way I can have different sections titled “Business” in news, articles, and blogs, without running into mod_rewrite issues.

I’m still very open to running a single CMS for everything, but I need to conceptualise a format where CMS issues simply won’t be an issue.

In the meantime, enjoy - I’m going to write up a tutorial for the main site on publishing RSS using a few different scripts. :)