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Comments

The Comments System is an Blogging style Extension, written for BIGACE. Can be used with and without installed News Extension.

Key features:

Downloads

Installation

  1. Download (see below) and install the Comments.zip
  2. Go to User/Permissions
  3. Assign the comments.* Permissions to your Administrator account and to all required Usergroups (see below)
  4. Activate the Comments plugin at Extensions → Administration → Plugins
  5. Reload the Administration, you see the new Extension entry “Comments”
  6. Configure your Comments System if required (see below, default options are pre-configured)
  7. Open your Content Template and add {include file='Comments-Listing-Form.tpl'} where you want Comments and Formular to appear
  8. Do not forget to activate Akismet, to prevent comment spam! (read more to know how it works)

Permissions

Names:

  1. comments.activate
  2. comments.edit
  3. comments.delete

Descriptions:

  1. Allows to activate pending Comments
  2. Allows to edit pending Comments
  3. Allows to delete pending Comments

Configuration

1.) Configure your Comment System at System/Configurations (you need the “admin_configurations” Permission to open it).

Go to Package “comments”.

Names:

  1. auto.activate.unregistered
  2. auto.activate.registered
  3. allow.html
  4. css.use.internal
  5. email.required
  6. email.send.moderator
  7. email.recipient.moderator
  8. email.send.posting
  9. email.recipient.posting
  10. email.from
  11. gravatar.enable
  12. gravatar.size
  13. rss.latest.template
  14. akismet.wordpress.api.key
  15. akismet.auto.activate.positive
  16. akismet.auto.delete.negative
  17. use.captcha
  18. ask.for.homepage (since 1.3)
  19. rel.nofollow (since 1.3)

Descriptions:

  1. whether logged-in users can post comments directly
  2. whether anonymous users can post comments directly (only for intranets! Don't use on public websites: SPAMMERS will find you!)
  3. if TRUE, users will be able to embed <HTML> in their postings (again, not a good choice for public websites!)
  4. default: TRUE - loads the included “Comments” Stylesheet. Looks okay on white pages, meant as example; you should create your own style.
  5. if you set to false, people do not need to include an email address
  6. if TRUE, emails are sent for new postings waiting for activation (moderated comments)
  7. comma separated list of recipients for the “moderated comments” email (example: “foo@bar,foo1@bar1”)
  8. if TRUE, emails are sent for new activated postings (see config keys 1 and 2)
  9. comma separated list of recipients for the “new posting” email (example: “foo@bar,foo1@bar1”)
  10. the address, used as “FROM” value in above mentioned emails
  11. default: TRUE - whether Gravatars are shown (TRUE) in your comments or not (FALSE)
  12. size of the gravatar images
  13. the template, used for rendering the RSS feed
  14. the wordpress API key, to activate you akismet account
  15. if (akismet) positiv marked comments should be activated automatically
  16. if (akismet) spam marked comments should be deleted or kept for manual control
  17. indicates if a captcha is used in the comment formular
  18. whether the homepage input field is shown or not
  19. whether comments are linked with attribute rel=“nofollow” or not

Smarty TAGs

The Comment System comes with some specialized Smarty TAGs.

Please visit their page for further information:

RSS Feed

The Comments Extension commes with an RSS feed, which is linked from the HTML metatags automatically after activating the Comments plugin. You can also link to it by using {link_comments_rss}.

If you want to customize the default values (you should do so to personalize the feed!), you have to edit the Template Comments-RSS-Latest. Even better, you could create a Template Copy and assign this new template as your RSS Template at the Comments configuration (see above).

Changelog

Version 1.6:

Please update all links to your RSS feed to /plugins/comments/rss.php or use Smarty TAG {link_comments_rss} and then delete /addon/rss/comments.php.

Version 1.5:

Version 1.2:

Version 1.1:

Version 1.0:

Version 0.9:

Version 0.8:

Version 0.7:

Version 0.6:

Version 0.5:

OPEN TASKS

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