Comments allow your website's visitors to have a discussion with you and each other. When you activate comments on a Page or post, WordPress inserts several text boxes after your content where users can submit their comments.
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How to rearrange fields in comment_form()
Im using a custom filter to change the fields, but can´t figure out how to change the order of the fields in the comment form.
Desired order:
comment field (first/top)
name
email
website
This is ...
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Adding another state (spam, reject, approve) to wordpress comments?
i know this might sound a bit weird, but what I'm trying to do is rather simple in mind but may be technically difficult.
I'm running small contests on my wordpress site where I ask users to leave a ...
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How do I turn off wordpress comments ability to capture a users ip address?
Going through the comments table on my wordpress site, I noticed that wordpress is storing the ip address of everyone who makes a comment on my site. How do I remove this functionality?
I'm not just ...
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Adding Custom Fields to WordPress Comment Forms?
What is the best way to add custom fields to a WordPress comment form?
(for example subject, image, etc...)
And how do I use the data entered afterwards...
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How to prevent deleting of comments when deleting a post
Like the title says: How can i prevent Wordpress from deleting post comments when i delete a post?
What i am trying to accomplish is that i want to merge all comments from different posts to posts ...
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Show comments from multiple post IDs in comment template
This may sound like an unusual request but I am try to display comments from several related posts in a single comment template.
For example I have several posts on the same topic (IDs 253, 724, 798) ...
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Running a function on comment status change
I am making a review system where i need to find update rating average when:
A comment gets approved from pending/trash/spam.
A comment gets upapprove from approve
A admin post reviews (auto ...
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How to auto-approve internal pingbacks?
Whenever I write a post on my blog and link to a previous post, that pingback shows up as a comment needing to be approved.
I am running Disqus, but this was happening even pre-use of that plugin.
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Custom Comment Types
I have created a custom post type for a sort of gallery whereby users can upload work etc. In addition to this I have taxonomies for this type such as categories, tags, colors, etc.
But I want users ...
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How to load and show comments with AJAX instead of pagination?
Is there a plugin that displays comments like this:
http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/6541/47905634.jpg
when the user clicks "read more", older comments are being appended to the list with ajax.
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Seperating custom post type comments from regular blog posts comments
I have a custom post type (gs_index) with commments enabled, and would like to display a list of recent comments only from that particular post type (outside of the loop)
I would also like to display ...
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Comments number message in password protected post
I've got a password protected post and comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); function displays "ENTER YOUR PASSWORD TO VIEW COMMENTS." message. The question is, is it possible ...
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Is there a plugin for posting inline comments, like in MS Word?
I want to make a cookbook style wordpress website, on which visitors can place comments inline. Like you do in a paper book with a pen: between the lines. Or like how MS Word handles comments.
Does ...
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Installing Facebook comment plug in without loosing all previous wordpress comments?
I'm trying to install Facebook comments onto a word press blog, but I do not want to loose all the previous comments. I'm curious if anyone has any ideas how to do this. I've looked at a lot of the ...
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Notify commenters about new replies
Is there a plugin to notify commenters of one post to receive emails about new comments made on that post? Only commenters who entered emails will be notified.
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Use rich text editor in comments?
I've been trying to get the TinyMCE editor working in the comments field but I've been unable to do so. Another suggestion I found was http://nicedit.com, the editor is working but the comments are ...
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function to remove 'comments and trackbacks are closed'
Does anyone have a function I can place in my functions.php that will remove this? I want to avoid altering the core files. It currently says "Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed."
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Number of External Links in Comments - Moderation Option
I just ran over a problem to properly use the count of external (meaning no relative or absolute links to my own blog) links on my blog for the Comment Moderation count Option.
It's labeled Hold a ...
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How to add filter in “Comments” at the admin panel?
I found so many information and most of the tutorials only talk about adding filter in post/custom post only.
I want to do something similar to this tutorial in 'Comments' area in admin panel.
Add ...
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How to use a custom comments template
My wordpress makes use of custom post templates. I'm now trying to create a custom comments template as well.
I noticed that the comments template is called via this function
<?php ...
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Threaded comments - deleting parent comment leads to orphan comments
Got an issue on a site where deleting a comment with replies (where threaded commenting is activated), leads to the child comments being orphaned, causing unexpected behaviour (such as the orphaned ...
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Delayed commenting
We have a client who is using WP as part of an alternate reality game, and as part of it, they want to have 'characters' leave comments on posts at certain times. They basically want to be able to ...
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Comment visibility
There will be many people commenting on a post. So, when a commentator visits the post, he should be able to see 'only' his own comment(s).Post author can see all comments only on his own post.
How ...
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Custom comments
I'm trying to create a custom comments page with pagination.
I have non-hierarchical custom type "apartments".
It makes urls like:
/apartments/ - for acrhive
/apartments/%id%/ - for post page
...
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Disqus over the default commenting engine, what are some pros and cons?
As subjective as this question might sound, pros and cons in the technical sense is what I'm looking for as answers.
I've been using Wordpress for about 2-3 weeks and 9/10 of the comments are spam, ...
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Amazon-like star ratings plugin needed. Lightweight and effective. Prefer Ajax
I'm looking for an efficiently coded plugin that will do 3 things...
1) Allow a person to rate a product when they submit a comment, based on a 5 star rating, by simply selecting the appropriate star ...
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WordPress comment count to include attachment comments
How can I make the comment count on a post on my index page include comments that have been made on, in my case, individual gallery pictures that are included in the post? It seems that comments made ...
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How to target the default Recent Posts and Recent Comments widgets with pre_get_posts?
I added the following to my functions.php:
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'keyl_get_emp_posts');
function keyl_get_emp_posts($query) {
if ($query->is_main_query())
...
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How to prevent spam comments?
I have NoSpamMX plugin installed. I was not getting spam comments for a long time. But now I am getting a lot of spam comments especially in one post.
What is the reason that there is such a lot of ...
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Add delete, approve, spam Links to Comments
Anyone know how to add quick comment moderation links for users who have permission to add/edit posts and comments? (Upprove / Unappove / Edit / Spam / Trash ). Note: in my comments.php I call the ...
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Comment Reply javascript
I am working on a client site which is a very stripped down theme. It has no standard html markups as a result of which the reply box doesn't move upto the place of being just below the comment to ...
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Relaxing unescaped HTML filtering inside <pre> tags?
By default, WordPress strips out any content that might be unescaped HTML in comments from unregistered users, which is good to protect against XSS, but it unnecessarily extends that filtering into ...
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How to Delete Old Comments by Date?
I run a contest/giveaway blog at www.mommylivingthelifeofriley.com and currently have over 160,000 comments on 1100 posts. I would like to find a way to delete all comments from my site which are ...
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How to hide “Comments are disabled”
is it possible to hide the string: "Comments are disabled" from everywhere?
I mean also from posts list, and post page :)
Thanks :)
EDIT:
sorry, the theme is Journal Cruch by Site5.com
However I ...
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List Recent Comments from Across a Multi-site Network
I'm look for a custom SQL query that will let me pull in the latest comments from across a WP multi-site install.
The end result will be identical to a regular recent comments widget, but from all ...
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How to allow commentetors to get notifications on replies to their comments?
Whenever someone comments on a blog post I've written, I want to reply to him as a comment. However, I'm sure that most of the time that person doesn't see my reply, because he's only subscribed to my ...
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comments are coming on improper posts
If someone comments on any post on my site, that comment gets displayed under another post.
Moreover, if I login to my site. And click on logout link (under comment section) it redirects me to ...
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Add a drop down list to comment form?
Can somebody help me to create a drop-down menu or (radio buttons) in Wordpress comment form, so that a new user could make a selection of their user roles (for example teachers + students) ?
Output ...
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How to no follow the paginated comments
I am trying to find a way to add rel="nofollow" to my comments pagination links.
Can anyone provide me with a hook or way to do so?
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How to enable comments for pending and draft posts?
I have a custom post type with comments enabled. The comments metabox in the admin only appears when the post is published. I'm wanting to use the comments system as more of a discussion between ...
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Edit Comments Form in TwentyEleven
Is there a way I can edit / change the layout of the comments form (leave a reply form) in the TwentyEleven theme? I want to put the textarea on top and I can change the styles via css but physically ...
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Can I change what fields are displayed in the Comments form?
Is it possible to change the fields that are available in the comments form? By default my comments form is asking for Name, Email, Website, and then the actual message. I'd like to remove website and ...
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How can I highlight admin comments?
Basically what I want is to have all comments posted by admins with different background color than the rest, so they're easily distinguishable.
I wasn't able to find any plugin that would do this ...
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modify all posts of a category to “no comments allowed”
I'm looking for a way to modify all posts of a certain category to be "no comments allowed" without going into each post settings, one by one, and modifying manually.
Perhaps a MySQL statement?
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Facebook Comment Count
I am a bit of an amateur when it comes to PHP and WordPress but I have rigged up the following code:
function fb_comment_count($url = 'some url here') {
$filecontent = ...
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Custom comment type maybe?
(First of all, sorry for bad english)
If there are people here using wordpress as cms, you probably realize that you dont need comment system that much. Esspecially custom post types like products ...
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show un-approved comments at wordpress front end
I've almost finished coding up a function that allows contributers when they are the post author to manage comments left on their own post (portfolio) couldnt find a plugin to do it so had to get ...
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Remove “Comments are closed” Notice from Custom Post Type template
I've created a custom post type single template. I noticed that when I turn off comments, I get a notice that says "Comments are closed."
Looking at my comments.php, I get this little bit of code:
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Notify multiple email addresses on comments
Can you recommend a plugin that enables notification on multiple email addresses on posted comments? Looking for a plugin that both notifies a global list of email addresses and the author of the ...
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Comment form validation
How can I set the validation rules for the comment field?
I change the value of commenter name/e-mail/homepage onmouseover and onblur (I use this instead of labels - so if the field is empty it ...
