One of the blessings in WordPress is the vast array of plugins available. However, it is also one of the curses….because it makes us lazy. While this doesn’t seem to be problematic in the short term, in the longer term, large numbers of plugins can cause blogs to slow down, and even worse, the various plugins could start interfering with each other. So, whenever I can, I like to write my own code – the two advantages are that
1 – I can control exactly what goes in to the code, making it do what I need and no more
and
2 – I’ve written the code so if things start to clash, it’s going to be easier to debug.
So, let’s learn how to create a WordPress page to display every comment on our blog and just for fun, let’s also code up a quicktag which we can place into any page or post where we want the comments displayed.
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So, I decided, for better or worse, to play around with Expression Engine a little bit. I don’t know why. Maybe I got bored with WordPress. Maybe I just wanted to try something different. Maybe I’m experimenting. Who knows. Anyway, I go about installing EE, which is obviously not as easy to do as WordPress….by which I mean, you need to set up your database yourself and do all the uploading through ftp etc etc…..call me spoiled, but with WordPress being such a de-facto standard, my webhost has a one click install for it which does everything for me. Not that I’m complaining, it was far from difficult to do, though probably not the sort of thing your nan would be comfortable with. You know, setting up a new mysql database and user and all of that is not something the average non-techy person should need to do in this day and age. Of course that sucks if you just want a blog on your webspace and you don’t feel like paying someone to install it for you, but you know, thems the breaks (you could always hire me to get you up and running – I’m not cheap, but I am good 
….eh who am I kidding, I’m cheap like a two dollar tunaslut, but I’m so good you’ll keep coming back for more ). (more…)
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