The simple theme that I was using ignored settings for comments on this blog, requiring respondents to login to comment. That wasn’t my intention. I’ve returned to the former template, which has limitations that I dislike, but which are not a burden to readers. I’ll be doing some more work on the design when I get time. Please feel free to comment without the need for logging in. I hate it when they don’t do what I want them to do.

UPDATE. I’m confused about the login-to-comment thing. I’ve checked all the settings and they are all set to allow open access to the comments. I don’t know what else to do. This all started after a spam wave last week. I’m lost with this problem. All I can think to do is start checking and unchecking select boxes, and then go through the source files looking for the places where this code might live. When I try to comment out the conditional that looks to see if the user is logged in I get a parse error.