On the themes page of this site I have comments appearing. I was asked which plugin I used to make this happen. The answer to this is pretty simple, I did not use a plugin, I added a separate page template to my theme. When I add a new page in WordPress I can now choose between a default page (no comments) and my own template (with comments).

Thanks to Otto for this great post on the heads up on the new comment system for WordPress 2.7. After I read this I decided to get ahead of the curve and switch my Techozoic theme over to the new threaded commenting. I decided to take it a little further and separate pings and trackbacks from regular comments.

If you are tired of those spam comments on your older posts this might just be the plugin to assist.

WMD Editor is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for Wordpress comments. Just upload and activate to get it running. Add live preview with one line more. WMD works in nearly all modern browsers, and is now completely free to use. See it in action in the post comments.