I haven’t spoken to a single person who likes the Snap Preview feature that is sweeping many blogs. I’ve read endorsements from quite a few sites but whenever I talk to real people trying to use one of those sites their first question is; How do I get rid of them?
Today a friend was setting up a WordPress.com site for his course material and, through a co-worker, asked me what the thing that kept popping up on links in his new site was. It was the Snap Preview. Apparently it is has been added to WordPress.com and turned on by default for not just new sites but existing sites too. The official line is that there was such a good reaction to an initial test that they decided to let everyone have it, auto-enabled. My cynical side says Snap approached WordPress and paid them money to have it included. Turning off the feature means digging through your Presentation options, it took us a good few minutes to find it.
A quick Google search shows plenty of dissent on the issue. The thing is annoying to a lot of people.
You might like it, your friends might like it but not everyone likes it. Make it a client choice. When someone visits a site make it either very easy to turn off or easy to turn on (the latter please.)
WordPress Feedburner plugin
Friday, August 4th, 2006I have been interested in Feedburner since it launched but that you have to give up control of your feed’s URL has always kept me from using it. Sure, you could put PHP scripts on your hosting that did some redirecting but it was all a bit of a hassle.
Much to my delight though there is a WordPress plugin that makes all of this painless. Thanks to Argolon for commenting about it in the previous post.
So now my journal’s feed retains its address but has all the FeedBurner features I’ve been wanting.
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