Finally after five long days, I managed to get CommentLuv plugin to work on my blog. However, this would not have happened without the help of one of my greatest online friends, Behrad from BioTecK.NET, who patiently tried to solve the problem for me. That goes to show how bad my php skill is…

We were communicating via email and we had to go through 13 emails back and forth before he finally figured out what was wrong with the piece of supposed to be simple code that I needed to put into my comments.php file.

The FAQ for CommentLuv made it look very simple that you only need to add a simple code below to your  comments.php but it did not tell you that on some themes, that code needs to be modified accordingly.

<?php doaction(‘commentform’, $post->ID); ?>

When I put in the code, all I got was this error message:

[Fatal error: Call to undefined function doaction() in /home/kisahber/public_html/wp-content/themes/Forte/comments.php on line 112]

Thank God for Behrad for cracking his head and gave me the solution to the problem. All I needed was to modify the code into:

<?php do_action(‘comment_form‘, $post->ID); ?>

And that was all to it. Now I have CommentLuv enabled and thank you Behrad for being such a good friend even though we are thousand of miles away. I owe you one!

And my php skill still sucks…

This is my first time running a blog on a self hosted WordPress platform and it has taken me a lot of time trying to figure out how to customize a standard theme into something that is more personalized to my own taste.

This is also my first time using a UNIX hosting but to my surprise cPanel is actually quite simple to use. Getting around the cPanel did not really take me long and in less than one hour I managed to install WordPress via the Fantastico De Luxe. Some of you, who are more technically inclined might be tempted to say: “What? Less than an hour? That’s way too long!”

By the way, I love the Fantastico smiling face logo.

So, the real difficult part is to get the selected theme to the way I want it to be. Bit by bit, I have managed to figure out how the codes work and you can see the results on this blog. Most of the things were discovered by trial and error while some others were found on the internet, published by those who had gone through the pain before me.

I am glad that I made the moved from Blogger to WordPress and now my limitation is only my skills on HTML, CSS and PHP. Other than that, my template will always, at least, look slightly different than yours…