incorporated with xanga

Okay, take a deep breath, I might not make any sense for a few minutes…

I have a blog run by WordPress at https://suuuueee.net/x/index.php , BUT, I use it as my xanga. Let me explain.

My xanga: https://xanga.com/suuuueee (i think it’s currently down. they’re very unreliable) is used as a “splash page” to my acutual WP-run blog. The only reason I use it is because all of my friends are located on xanga, and it just makes it easier for them to go to xanga.com/myname rather than an entirely new domain. Am I making sense?

Anyways, because my weblog is “incorporated” if you wi ll, with xanga, I customized the WP files so that the EMAIL input (when commenting) was for a person’s xanga username. And then I made it so that when a comment was displayed, the:

Joe

was changed to

Joe

Here’s an example: https://www.suuuueee.net/x/2005/02/18/46/#comments

Yes, yes, I know. It’s not “right” nor “efficient” to the majority of you, but it worked for me perfectly.

Until…

I upgraded to WordPress 1.5. dun dun dun. This was my first time upgrading any kind of blogging software, and I was overwhelmed with relief to see that everything was still working perfectly. EXCEPT for the comments. Past comments were working fine, they still linked to https://xanga.com/someone but new comments were not.

When I was posting a test comment, I entered my information as follows: Sue, suuuueee (my xanga username), and my comment. But when my comment was displayed, the URL shown was “https://xanga.com/[email protected].” Apparently, WP had taken my information that I submitted in the Admin panel and used it to replace where I typed “suuuueee.”

I realized that I could prevent this from happening by logging out of wordpress BEFORE I commented. However, I find this highly annoying.

So finally, I come to my point. Is there a way of making a “custom field” except for COMMENTS, and not posts? So that I could have a random “xanga username” field that would display links to people’s xangas without any inteference? I DO realize that my “method” still works fine for everyone else (just not me) but I’d like to know if there is a more “efficient” way of doing this.

Thank you if you actually read everything that I wrote above, and congratulations if you actually understood it. ??

Thanks in advance for any help.