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I look forward to following your blog. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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It really wasn’t a big deal. :-) I’ve corresponded with Andy before. He’s really helpful and answers questions super fast.

Just an FYI – I posted a comment on Blogging Without a Blog yesterday and comment luv pulled my previous article too. Granted, the newest one hadn’t been up long but my guess is that web servers do serve pages from the cache to reduce load. It sounds like the upcoming version of the plugin may help alleviate this issue.

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There is a theory as to why it will pull the previous post rather than the current one. In order to reduce load on the web server the server will be set to deliver a cached page to this kind of “backdoor” request. If your webhost is doing this, your current post isn’t in the cache and your previous post is delivered.

Andy also suggested testing your feed URL at http://internetsupervision.com/
If it takes longer than 5 seconds to any of the servers being tested then commentluv probably won’t be able to add your post to the comment.

Also, he is beta-testing the next version, which should be released soon. It will do the following “you can choose your default feed location which makes retrieving much quicker and the last blog post is shown before you submit the comment so you know if it’s worked or not” Of course, this will only work on sites that install plugin updates.

I hope that helps.

Commnet Luv has been driving me nuts because it works sometimes and other times not. But sometimes when it does work – it pulls my next to most recent most not the most recent one. That’s what it did above, even though I put a new post up on Thursday it grabbed Mondays. That’s why I thought it could have something to do with my feed. I’ll stay subscribed to this comment feed just in case you find something out form the developer. Thanks again. You know your stuff!

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Thanks for raising the point about terms used for techie and non-techie types. That issue has actually been coming up for me a lot lately especially in one of the projects I am working on with someone. I have to remind myself that just because something is common knowledge to me that it may not be for others and I’m working on explaining things in everyday language. Sometimes it is difficult to find a balance as I have a diverse group of readers.

Are you referring to a guide about HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or WordPress? I think you mean CSS but I’m not positive. All of these are enormous topics and that would be quite an undertaking – perhaps it is something for me to consider over the long term. A good idea for an article, however, may be the most commonly used terms – the ones that you are most likely to encounter and need to edit.

Image padding is basically the amount of white space around an image. It is similar to a margin. If you look at the image at the top of the article, the amount of white space between the border and the text is the padding.

I searched for some CSS Tutorials for Beginners and found that most of them still assume a certain level of knowledge. This one is the best that I’ve located so far. http://www.cssdog.com/css_intro.html

Ok – about CommentLuv. I would need to look into this a little bit more and may email the developer (he actually helped me with a problem I was having with the plugin) but it is my understanding that the plugin is trying to do a lot of work in a short time period. If it doesn’t post the link to the commenter’s last article, the fault is not with the commenter, the author, or the actual plugin, but is instead the interaction of all three.

The code in the plugin starts working on this site. When someone leaves a comment the plugin needs to read the URL of the commenter, find that website, find the last article, and bring the information back to to where the comment was posted. At any point there can be a breakdown in communication. If my server is slow and your server is slow, commentluv can’t bring the link back quickly enough and I believe it stops working and then allows the comment to be posted normally.

I hope that explanation didn’t make it more confusing. Interestingly enough, commentluv was able to do it’s job on your second comment but failed the first time.