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Does anyone know how to get rid of those annoying backslashes that show up every time someone uses an apostrophe in the comments? I’m guessing it has something to do with the comment moderation plugin I’m using…

In my last post, I was originally going to post the poem. I didn’t, but had I done so it would have brought up an interesting question:

If I want to include a certain piece of styling in a post in my blog, like making something blue, what’s the proper way to do it? Should I use a style attribute? Or should I use a class attribute? If I do use a class attribute, where should I put the stylesheet? I don’t really want to put it in the global stylesheet, since it’ll probably only be used once. Ideally each post should have its own stylesheet (should it need one), but where would it be linked to from? I really can’t think of any way to link from inside the post, but it doesn’t quite seem right to add the individual stylesheets into the head of the page that contains them actually, thinking about it more, I guess it does feel right to add the link in to the head of whatever page contains the post. How’s this work for RSS(-type) feeds, though? (I’m not really really versed in feeds, though I do have a post I need to make about them…)

Anne should probably add this (or some other solution to the problem, if someone comes up with something) to his perfect weblog system.

Well, I got comment validation set up (thanks Anne!) so now, on the offchance that anyone wants to comment, they can. I’ll (hopefully sometime soon) go through and hack it to exactly how I please, and write the rules down somewhere. For now I don’t quite know exactly what they are myself.

I have a few other things I need to do, like going through and removing a bunch of title attributes on <abbr> tags, changing the doctype to strict, changing the layout, etc. I’ve never worked with PHP or Apache, so this’ll be a learning experience.

Ew, I just noticed how ugly the URLs here are. index.php?p=30#comments for comments, index.php?cat=1 for a category link, wp-commentsrss2.php for an RSS feed… I guess I have a lot to do to fix this up… (that or I’ll be switching to Robbert Broersma’s that Anne referred me to, once it’s complete).

So I’ve got this somewhat set up now, and I’m just playing around with settings and stuff. I tried importing my old livejournal entries, but that didn’t work (properly) so I think I’ll just leave them on the livejournal if anyone wants to comment on them.

I have all comments set to be moderated now, until I can get Anne’s validation plugin…

I’m still playing around with things, getting a feel for it. It should be more functional in a couple days.