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alternateplane on "Comments on pages"

alternateplane — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:30:44 +0000

Everyone, thanks for the tip! And sorry the little header scared you, timethief :P

timethief on "Comments on pages"

timethief — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:11:46 +0000

Thanks to both of you. I've chilled and I've learned something new, again. Like collin I've never been accused of being "shy" because I don't have the primary barriers to learning, (1) being afraid to look stupid by asking questions, or (2) or being afraid to yell :O HELP! when I think something's wrong. lol A shrinking violet I'm not. A thorny rose - well, maybe.

drmike on "Comments on pages"

drmike — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:45:42 +0000

I love how they have a line for "IE Text Size" in there. Have to remember that the next time we get a "how come my text is so large" question.

podz on "Comments on pages"

podz — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:35:19 +0000

http://mybrowserinfo.com/detail.asp

Click that :)

drmike on "Comments on pages"

drmike — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:56:11 +0000

I can see Podz's IP address. :)

TT, any time you visit somewhere on the internet, usually the webserver that gives you the site you're visiting records your IP address, the date, the time, where you came from (the referrer), and what browser you are using. The little script that he or she is running just takes that information and gives it back to you.

timethief on "Comments on pages"

timethief — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:56:05 +0000

alternateplanet - If you want to know the name of a theme that does have comments on pages Regulus does.

timethief on "Comments on pages"

timethief — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:17:11 +0000

podz - okay I gottcha - I assumed it was sharing my info with the blog's owner. But you're saying it only tells the blog visitor their own information and does not share that information with the blog's owner. Thanks for the response I've chilled.

podz on "Comments on pages"

podz — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:11:01 +0000

http://www.danasoft.com/aboutdanasoft.php

It's innocent and you don't see what I see. If you do, what's my IP address? :)

timethief on "Comments on pages"

timethief — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:56:58 +0000

alternateplanet - I just clicked on your about page and saw a little logo at the top. I was not impressed because it stated my IP, my ISP provider, my operating system and my browser.

How are you determining such information?
Why do you need to know this information about me and your other readers?
Where is this information stored?
Whom are you sharing this information with?

drmike *whistle* WTF - spyware on a free wordpress hosted blog - how is this being done?

cornell on "Comments on pages"

cornell — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:44:19 +0000

It's theme dependent. Some do, some don't.

alternateplane on "Comments on pages"

alternateplane — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:07:03 +0000

Is it possible for viewers to post comments on a page?

drmike on "Default theme fix"

drmike — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:07:23 +0000

Best bet I would think would be trying to get theme designers to submit themes that include Page Templates both with and without the 'comments_template();' call.

But again, this falls under the "Most theme were designed for WordPress where themes are editable and not MU where they're not." bit that comes up on occasion.

Matt has stated that we're not suppose to be bugging theme designers though.

Maybe Feedbacks?

wank on "Default theme fix"

wank — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:30:42 +0000

The OP told everyone how to do it already:

Basically you need to put in the 'comments_template();' code into the default theme's Page section.

I have to agree, it's not that hard, but then we have to bear in mind that the developers' time is severely limited. I wasn't aware that they were accepting theme patches now: how should we go about submitting them? Feedback? The contact form? The fairly moribund-looking WP MU Trac?

clairemillington on "Default theme fix"

clairemillington — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:57:44 +0000

I'm not a codemonkey so unfortunately can't help. I like the idea though if someone knows someone who can. So...UP for this one please.

drmike on "Default theme fix"

drmike — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:21:47 +0000

it's really not that hard

They when should be expect the code fix? Feel free to submit it to staff.

drmike on "Work-around for Page Comments???"

drmike — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:02:55 +0000

If you're big on interacting wioth your readers, you could always sign up for a free forum over at ProBoards or somewhere like that.

kateenf on "Work-around for Page Comments???"

kateenf — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:36:37 +0000

ok - i worked out one way round the problem:

i made a text widget and titled it 'any comments / questions'

i made a new Post which i've just left in the default category: the post is called 'comments and questions' and i've written 'please leave you general comments / questions / suggestions here' and of course, becasue it is a Post it has a Comment box underneath.

then: copy the web address of this new post as it appears live on the blog, and create a link to it in the text widget (you can write html in the text widget)

any other suggestions more than welcome though cos this is ok for one or two text widgets down the side but doesn't solve the problem that in 'Neat' there is no option to leave comments on Pages (and i have lots of pages!!)

kateenf on "Work-around for Page Comments???"

kateenf — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:59:15 +0000

me too :-)

this is just what i was looking for today as well - i just moved to 'neat' and really like it and would rather not have to change again - any one out there with ways to make a Page have a Comment option??

sunburntkamel on "Default theme fix"

sunburntkamel — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:01:54 +0000

i think the best solution is for themes to have 'commentable' and 'uncommentable' page templates. it's really not that hard.

although with .com templates, i can't see it really mattering to anyone if their pages have a 'comments closed' notification at the bottom, so maybe all pages should be commentable, and people should use the 'allow comments' checkbox.

clairemillington on "Default theme fix"

clairemillington — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:27:24 +0000

well if we did they should rtfm as you can turn off the comments options on pages :) I found the 'no comment' button so it can't be too hard...

options on "Default theme fix"

options — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:26:04 +0000

did we, really?

drmike on "Default theme fix"

drmike — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:43:58 +0000

Didn't we have a thread a few weeks ago complaining about themes that *DID* allow comments on Pages? :)

clairemillington on "Default theme fix"

clairemillington — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:22:41 +0000

Connections theme also has this problem basically not giving a comment box on its pages. I rely on pages to structure my blog - any chance of fixing this please?

brooklynmusic on "More Than One Post on New Page?"

brooklynmusic — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:57:32 +0000

Thanks, Doc. I did finally get it to work.

journeytomom on "Work-around for Page Comments???"

journeytomom — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:06:17 +0000

Thanks again drmike!
I was just putting feelers out for any creative ideas on using what is already available (widgets & whatnot) from folks with more knowhow than me.
Now, off to do something more constructive with my time.
:-) Melissa

drmike on "Work-around for Page Comments???"

drmike — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:38:14 +0000

Best bet would be the theme you asked about in the other thread as it allows Pages to have comments. There is no method to edit themes here as we share them between all users. You could do this and pretty much anything else though with a copy of WordPress hosted in your own webspace though as you would have control over your own theme.

journeytomom on "Work-around for Page Comments???"

journeytomom — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:28:11 +0000

So, I've read and found the answer to my question about comment capability on pages. Apparently that is theme dependant. Now I'm wondering if there might be a work-around to that without switching themes? I just settled on one I like and would rather not switch again right now.

Anyway, what I want is a "What I'm Reading" page/post that will not get burried under future posts that people can comment on to give their opinions on books I have listed. Any suggestions on how this might be accomplished with a text widget, or some other idea?

Thanks!
Melissa

drmike on "More Than One Post on New Page?"

drmike — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:42:42 +0000

Brookynmusic, it depends on which editor you are using. If it's the normal text editor, there's a button labeled 'more'. If you're using the advanced text editor (otherwise known as TinyMCE), it's the button with two white boxes, one over the other with a light blue line between them.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

brooklynmusic on "More Than One Post on New Page?"

brooklynmusic — Sat, 20 May 2006 21:51:22 +0000

I just went and converted all my static Pages to categories and thus got rid of the swamp of Page names at the top of the screen — an improvement. I copied the contents of each of my former static pages and pasted it into a post on the main page, and gave it a category so it could be listed as a discrete entity. The posts (which are fairly static) can be commented on, and can be found readily by using that category list.

Btw, those old "Pages" weren't deleted yet, just marked "Private" which reduces the Page list. Some of the corresponding posts need tweaking, where they were linked to other Pages, since those links are now "404".

This seems like a solution. It's certainly closer to how the WP blog was supposed to work. I wasn't using categories at all, before this.

Still trying to figure out how to use that clickable "More" button in the posts.

clairebernier on "More Than One Post on New Page?"

clairebernier — Mon, 15 May 2006 05:44:00 +0000

I had the same question. What I did at the end is to create 2 additional pages. On each on them, I presented another blog and linked to it.
Then if people want to no more, they swtich to my other blog.