Stupid me! I know it's Nick. I think I must have just been reading "Church of no People" Matt while I waited for the post to load.

Personally (and don't let this go to your head) I like the way you write. The summary tells me "What" you think, but the full post is an indication of "Why". Often the "Why" is more important than the "What".

So if I get a vote I vote for whole posts in the RSS 🙂

To give you the "Why" I like to read your stuff… I see a lot of myself in you. I am also about your age, married, I have two young girls (8mo and 3yo), am a geek, Christian and was a youth pastor for a number of years. I understand a lot of you frustrations and can celebrate your victories. And somehow this gives me a fuller picture of who I am.

So thanks for being you (Nick not Matt 🙂 ) and for communicating so transparently.

Nothing wrong with being a bit late. I love your blog, it looks great and you have certainly taken advantage of the freedom WP offers. I'm also glad for the regular updates and the plugin update notification.

Unfortunately I had to fix a bit of code that didn't work for my site so I could use automatic updates. I think their code generally works but I hope they think to provide an option to manually enter the tmp folder for sites that aren't configured for scripts to access the system tmp folder correctly. It took me a good hour before I figured out how to make it work. Manual update would have been faster but I'm a bit obsessive.

Um, it's Nick … like Nick the Geek. Anyways I'm not bothered about the gripe.

I noticed after my first post went to feedburner. I checked to make sure everything was working right and I realized that it only showed the summary. At first I was going to try and find whatever setting enabled that but then I thought, "how many people actually read this? The summary will save them time and they can get on with their day." It's weird but for someone with a huge ego I tend to assume others aren't even remotely impressed with me.

I think I can change is pretty quickly, though I might start making a slightly longer summary with a tag at the end about clicking through for the actual post. I still assume that most people are happier with the cliff notes version of me.

What do you think, would a longer summary with a click through note be better or just go for the full blown post in RSS?

Um, it's Nick … like Nick the Geek. Anyways I'm not bothered about the gripe.

I noticed after my first post went to feedburner. I checked to make sure everything was working right and I realized that it only showed the summary. At first I was going to try and find whatever setting enabled that but then I thought, "how many people actually read this? The summary will save them time and they can get on with their day." It's weird but for someone with a huge ego I tend to assume others aren't even remotely impressed with me.

I think I can change is pretty quickly, though I might start making a slightly longer summary with a tag at the end about clicking through for the actual post. I still assume that most people are happier with the cliff notes version of me.

What do you think, would a longer summary with a click through note be better or just go for the full blown post in RSS?

Most of my blogging buddies are on blogger and I do have a couple of blogs there for now. I'll end up moving them eventually too. I am still on blogger quite a bit. One plugin I'd like to find/see made is one that allows for blogger account login for comments. Of course this would have to be through Intense Debate. It would be nice for people with blogger accounts to be able to comment through that system.

How do you like joomla? I work with a charity and am planning on settin gup a site for them. I'm torn between Joomla and Mambo, plus I recently was shown concrete5. I'm also wondering how well WordPress would work for them.

Once the basic plugins are setup for you WordPress is actually easier to use in many ways, including picture placement. Wherever your cursor is when you click "add image" is where the picture goes. Much better than blogger which is really annoying if you want to add images throughout a post.

I'm planning on upgrading to the newest analytics plugin release today or tomorrow. It look much better than the one I am currently using. I've found that often I install a plug-in but don't get the latest release for some reason. I have started trying to research the versions to make sure I'm up to date because the server I'm on is prohibiting automatic upgrades because of some settings I haven't be able to change.

I tried wordpress.com and was very disappointed in the functionality of that site. It is very limited and quite frankly blogger gives much more ability to expand.

It is appropriate to this post though. I think when you converted (the timing is about right) your feed burner started putting out only the first few lines of the post. I mainly read in a reader and some of the time I am left thinking “Man that was a short post, he said almost nothing.” forgetting that the feed was truncated.

Any chance of addressing this? or was it a strategic choice?

Oh and I love WordPress, despite only being on wordpress.com.