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A Temporary Solution Re: Leaving Comments

Commenting on blogs hosted on WordPress.com has been slightly inconvenienced (depending on one’s view) since the necessity to login to comment was rolled out sometime last year. I made a post about back it then and only recently have found a solution thanks to contacting WordPress.com’s support about it. It was right in front of my nose.*

Now when you leave a comment, you have the option to either include your email address or not. If you include your email address, you’ll still have to login with your WordPress.com or Gravatar password if WordPress.com recognizes your email as being associated with an account. If you do not include an email address, your comment will immediately appear on the site. (It may appear with the message “comment awaiting approval” if you do not have a previously approved comment.)

If you prefer, you can still login to WordPress, Twitter, or Facebook to leave a comment by clicking the respective icon.

It is only a temporary solution, but I hope this way makes it easier for everyone. There is greater risk of spam this way, however Akismet is very good at catching the majority of it so I barely need to moderate it. I’ve had this setting toggled for a little over a week and there hasn’t been a big difference from the usual spam volume.

The only thing that might make it tricky is when I do giveaways. Normally an email address is required to contact the winner, so I’ll try to find a workaround for this.

*For WordPress.com bloggers who are interested, go into your dashboard and under settings > discussion, make sure the setting “comment author must fill out name and e-mail” isn’t checked. Be sure to save your settings.

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Facebook vs. Twitter

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This evening I posted on to the Z’s Cup of Tea Facebook wall that I rarely login to Facebook and that I’m more active on Twitter. Before today, I don’t remember the last time that I logged in or even posted a status message or shared a link. Nowadays I mostly share my blog posts there via WordPress.com’s Publicize feature. I also shared my Facebook post on Twitter:

I’m also posting it here because there are many still who aren’t on either Facebook or Twitter, or don’t go to these sites. The primary reason why I am posting here, though, is to explain more about why I’m not really on Facebook and why I use Twitter more.

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Season’s Greetings! Plus Sneak Peek for January

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Dear Readers,

To those of you who celebrate and enjoy this time of year, Merry Christmas! To those of you who don’t, I hope you have a good time all the same. Thank you to everyone who has visited Z’s Cup of Tea, left comments, and emailed me as well as the tweets and follows on Twitter and sharing on Facebook throughout this year of 2012. I read them all and do my best to respond to every single one. All of your feedback and support is appreciated and I am grateful for it.

For the month of December, I know I’ve been quite negligent in my blogging (including no new holiday baking recipes, unfortunately). I had wanted to do so much more, but ultimately it didn’t end up that way. Some of the ideas I had and things I wanted to post about have been pushed to Christmas next year or until January.

Some things to look forward to in January 2013:

A cookbook giveaway (and review)
A post on personal health and wellness
New recipes and more reviews

These are things just lined up so far! There will be more as I plan and as we go into the New Year.

Merry Christmas!

Sincerely,

Zoe

P.S. This is the first time I’m emailing my blog, so forgive me if this post looks wonky.