Is there a way to do these two things?

WarAxe and I were merely trying to help him understand that doing this: “1) Make the main page so that when a post is commented on, it moves to the top again?”, might potentially lose his readers and just clutter up the index page, with all the posts mostly replied to.

Rather then viewing “NEW” posts that he makes, and then makes it harder on ppl to find them. We weren’t really trying to tell him how to run his own blog persay, just were pointing out that, doing that might not be the best thing to do. =)

And he can and still could do whatever he wants with his own blog. =) It don’t matter to me, really WarAxe and I said that idea is cool and would be a nice feature. But maybe just have it on another page, so the index page is left open for newest posts.

Could even have the index page into two sections or <divs> really. Have the top section for new posts and the lower half for Recently Commented On Posts. That would be awesome to. Just maybe have it so those posts aren’t full versions, but partial. Mmm..that’s sounds good, might try it myself then once. =)

Dgold, what you had pointed out is also good. =) There a good number of ppl on the web using just ONLY Forum Softwares for the websites. =) I had done this before also. Well, it’s up to him really.. =)

spencerp

I do agree with Dgold.

Also, it is a challenging idea.
I bookmarked it myself for thinking over.

I agree with Spencer. He worded it very well and used enough smileys that only those with the tightest of orifices could take offense. ??

Also, I might mention to DGold and leroyleroux (both without site links) that not including a link to your blog leaves others who you are looking for help from to sometimes make assumptions and guesses about where you’re coming from.

Also again, don’t confuse a blog with a forum. They are different beasts. Their human-machine interface is (or rather should be) different. A blog does not usually make for a good forum. I hate to do this, but take www.ads-software.com for instance… this support section is really used as a forum, but in a blog format… IMHO, it is not the correct solution.

Forum software usually lists MANY threads going on and they are usually in order of when they were started. This has a few benefits. If you are returning to a specific thread you can remember when abouts it falls in the timeline so you can find it again. Have you ever tried finding a previous thread here with search? ?? Good luck. And if you return to a forum thread it usually has a marker indicating it has new content… which for forum threads is easier than marking threads with new content by physically moving their position. Moving blog posts around to show activity only confuses the matter. Posts that could be very valuable are susceptible to being pushed into irrelevency by newer ones, and the older valuable posts become lost. I see this time and again on this site, as well as a hoard or others. This is part of the reason why people ask the same questions over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over….

Forum software sometimes allows the ability to reorder comments in the threads by search relevancy, commenter rating, value points awarded, and some other ways. Not usually blogging software… but that’s fine because that’s not what blogs are for. A blog… short for Weblog (coined many years ago by some guy who now doesn’t have a lot of money – seriously), is a different entity with a different user paradigm from a forum… with different purposes and different use-case models.

Forum software works poorly for a blog, and blogging software works poorly for a forum. If you want to get sketchy and claim that modifications and subtle user interface customizations could turn a blogging software (like WordPress) into a forum-viable platform, then I would suggest that you are merely using the generic database query engine as a back-tier and rewriting the blog software to instead act as a forum front-tier. Basically, coding forum software into a blog so it’s no longer a blog. So in essence you aren’t using the blogging software anymore for your forum. Otherwise, any solution requiring text entries could use blogging software… CMS, Forums, B2Bs, and the list goes on.

I know that a person does not need a master’s degree in IT to understand this… but mine sure helps me. ??

Hahaha…yeah I did try to be nice about it lol. =) That is hard for me to do sometimes though lol! Thanks for your support and lengthy post on this WarAxe. =)

I know they have the Codex and all for people to use, but too bad they didn’t do something like phpBB.com did and make a forum or knowledge base for posts that have those certain problems along with their fixes right in there.

Then people could just browse through that forum and find a title of the post similiar with their problem or even spot on it. Then they could just read that thread for the fixes. =) I dunno though…might be asking too much I guess to.. :/

spencerp