I was having problems with WordPress and the Journalist theme. Not only the “phantom bubble,” but the fact that nested comments… weren’t. Being fed up, I fired up Google and found out that it was the Journalist theme itself that was causing the problems.
Solution? Activate the default theme, delete Journalist, download the newer version and install it… and now everything works– no phantom bubbles, comments nest, and I could swear that the load time went down a few tenths of a second.
You know that expression Foghorn Leghorn always did, laying on the ground and tapping his fingers on the earth? Yeah, I’m doing a good impression right now. Note to self: re-installation is almost always less effort intensive than repair.
But at least I can take some solace in not being the only one having some technical problems.
Linoge
8 Jun 10 at 4:21 PM
Well, I will say this much – WordPress beats the hell out of Movable Type, and they both spank the pants off Blogger or anything else like that.
That said, if they made it a little more obvious where all their CSS declarations were, I would be a lot more happy.
Dixie
8 Jun 10 at 4:28 PM
I gave up trying to figure out the CSS for the themes on my own. No comments in the code combined with shoddy structuring (okay, where do the header, header image, header text and header tagline all have separate CSS?) make it almost impossible to tweak.
But yeah, no way in blazes I’d work with Blogger or MT.