In the midst of transitioning myself into rediscovering WordPress, and publishing <a href="/articles/blog-posts/rediscovering-wordpress/">content on my blog first</a>, I realized that one thing that kind of bums me out is that nobody posts comments on my site. As far as I'm concerned, anything that's published anywhere that's not on my site should be treated as ephemeral, even if it necessarily isn't.

Start with the basic building block of all narrative.

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

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In the midst of transitioning myself into rediscovering WordPress, and publishing <a href="/articles/blog-posts/rediscovering-wordpress/">content on my blog first</a>, I realized that one thing that kind of bums me out is that nobody posts comments on my site. As far as I'm concerned, anything that's published anywhere that's not on my site should be treated as ephemeral, even if it necessarily isn't.

So, when I receive a reply to something, or have a fun interaction with my content with someone else on social media, I find that at least a small part of me is sad, because I know that interaction is probably not something I'll keep. (I draw the line at manually cross posting comments lol).

So, when I receive a reply to something, or have a fun interaction with my content with someone else on social media, I find that at least a small part of me is sad, because I know that interaction is probably not something I'll keep. (I draw the line at manually cross posting comments lol).

I know that WordPress is going social, and I also know that someday, this problem might get drastically improved, but I am getting into the habit of choosing to comment on people's actual blog content first, and only replying to a post directly on social in situations where there is no other option.

I know that WordPress is going social, and I also know that someday, this problem might get drastically improved, but I am getting into the habit of choosing to comment on people's actual blog content first, and only replying to a post directly on social in situations where there is no other option.

I invite (and encourage!) you to start doing the same!

I invite (and encourage!) you to start doing the same!

Let’s Go Back To Commenting on Blogs

Silly me. I've been manually typing the hashtags in these microposts. I even conceptualized this parser that automatically converts hashtags into WP tags and turns them into links.

I dropped this, and instead just automatically append all of the tags on this post as a hashtag on the site. So much easier.

Silly me. I've been manually typing the hashtags in these microposts. I even conceptualized this parser that automatically converts hashtags into WP tags and turns them into links.

I dropped this, and instead just automatically append all of the tags on this post as a hashtag on the site. So much easier.

My (Very) Basic PoSSE Setup

Freelance Web Developer &amp; Senior Software Development Engineer at GoDaddy. Digital Nomad of 3 years. I talk about WordPress, off-grid, &amp; RV life.