You may have noticed yet another round of changes to the Brand Camp Blog layout.  These were, at first, unplanned, as I was attempting to install the IntenseDebate plugin for WordPress and subsequently broke all the blog’s comments.  Of COURSE I hadn’t backed up the files before installing the plugin, so um…I broke the blog.

And instead of driving to my studio, where the original theme files lived, I installed a new template and went to pimptown on it.  The new features, ladies and gents:

IntenseDebate.  Lovely reader, you can now login to comment with your Twitter or OpenID accounts.  Oh, and you can reply to a specific comment — all threaded and civilized-like.

PSST!  There’s a WordPress plugin for this!

1. Back up your blog.
2. Hit up Plugins–>Add New from your WordPress dashboard.
3. Search for ‘IntenseDebate’ in the ‘Search Plugins’ box, and it’ll pop up.
4. Click ‘Install’ and choose ‘Install now’ from the popup that appears.
5. Click ‘Activate plugin’ and voila!
6. You’ll need to configure it under ‘Settings’ from your WordPress dashboard.  I totally learned about easy plugin installation like, two weeks ago, so I’m an expert.  (An expert at breaking blogs.)

RSS feed.  Yes, you diehard folks who read blog posts in a feed reader, you now have RSS fodder.

Merit Badge Mail: You can now opt in to learn about the latest Brand Camp happenings — and believe me, they’re going to be outstanding.  So sign up in the top-right , pretty please.