Thanks to Wordpress and its myriad nifty features and plugins, I’ve not only re-enabled comments but I’ve also figured out how to keep certain topics out of the public realm entirely. I really had a lot of hesitation migrating to Wordpress at first in large part because I had written my own CMS called Chatterbox using a combination of Perl and PHP. I’d put a lot of hours into developing it. The plan was to eventually integrate the CMS with my image management system called Imagesource, which Lisa Whiteman was kind enough to beta test for me (and which she is still using to power her fantastic portfolio, Lisa Whiteman Lens). But earlier this year I started futzing around with Wordpress, getting it set up at another site. That migration proved to be painless enough on the Wordpress end that I decided to set it up at my own site and put Chatterbox to rest. For the first few months I didn’t take advantage of fully half the features, and I’d never once looked through the plugins database to see what added functionality the Wordpress community had to offer. But now I have, and Wordpress is working flawlessly … and suddenly this is starting to sound like viral marketing so I guess I should stop. Anyway, as you were.