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A Wordpress theme and plugin for social texts

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  • About Commentpress (66 comments)

    • Comment by hapa on August 7th, 2007

      there’s a blur here. the standard blog comment is a note to the author or the reading group. the standard book note is a pointer for later reference by that one reader. collaborative texts are interesting to me, but i can’t use this to annotate your blog, because i can’t find it again easily.

      1) can’t track comments i left here, a year from now, from another location
      2) wouldn’t necessarily be able to find a comment i left here again even if i remembered what i’d said.

      this is probably a system service i’m talking about, integrated with any and all web browsers. it would appear on the page itself as a note i made and it would be in a searchable list of notes made in a dedicated — dunno, maybe “travel diary” interface.

      anyway my ideal would be to have clicked that talk bubble over there and have that make this note (with a public/private checkbox?) which then automatically registered — no — i’m talking about two different systems. comments for discussion, and a maybe a pencil icon for personal note. well anyhow the note would be logged in some portable database.

      • Comment by mace on June 1st, 2009

        I wonder if you’re aware of the term guthenbergs parenthesis, it’s fascinating. The point is, that the printing press brought forth an era between the manuscript era and digital era during which texts were neither annotated nor shared by readers. With manuscripts the copies of texts were so few that scholars and other people studying shared them and thus their annotations too.

        With the printing press, everybody could get their own private copy, thus no sharing was taking place. Also reading became a solitary, silent endeavour, unlike before. And now in the age of digital distribution, well… we spend all days discussing texts :) Gutenberg parenthesis presents a period of silence in annotation and sharing the annotation.

    • Comment by jdwilbur on August 7th, 2007

      Interesting point. Public and private comments is something we’ve definitely had on the radar before, and may put into Commentpress eventually. But the idea of publishing out your comments to a private, portable space—it’s a lot like a feature of most feed-readers. You can choose which links from your feed appear on a public blog, which is independent of the feed, and basically acts as a tracking device for all your readings.

      This, of course, requires a centralized service on which to store the feed records, so the model is different than Commentpress. But maybe there’s something we can think about here using OpenID and pingbacks or trackbacks. In any case, a difficult problem in our current model of distributed installs, but an interesting thought. Thanks!

    • Comment by Alexandre Rafalovitch on August 7th, 2007

      I use coComment’s services to track my public comments and conversations I participated in.

      It might be useful to have private meta-comment facility. I think I have heard of some tools like that (clipping services?), but I am not using any at the moment.

    • Comment by hapa on August 7th, 2007

      having this interface in font of me, with the floating composition space, it’s fantastic. a real mental freshener. it occurs to me that if the meta-comment gizmo were to exist it would have to be paired with a web snapshot facility to retain context. i don’t know how i would handle that, but it’s a problem with web research in general. when you start going element-by-element on a page you get that exponential thing — nifty though to be able to see your friends’ del.icio.us markings, graf by graf, as you browse. version control nightmare!

      • Comment by mace on June 1st, 2009

        For private notes i use Zotero, which is basically a citation tool with some annotation functions. It’s implemented as a Firefox extension. I would prefer to by default share my notes and it AFAIK sharing of links and notes is in the works. Zotero takes snapshots of pages and retains a link to the original. I wish it had a function to compare the saved and the current versions of the original web page.

    • Comment by Ross Smith on August 31st, 2007

      Your development has already been eclipsed.

      Reframeit.com has a tool that anone can use to comment on any portion (a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph — anything they highlight with the cursor) of any web page on the internets!

    • Comment by philippe boisnard on September 3rd, 2007

      Yes, I recognize the work of McKenzie. I’ve seen a demonstration during a festival at Paris.

    • Comment by Shai Gluskin on September 28th, 2007

      Ultimately, I’m not sure Wordpress is the best platform for this idea. Maybe MediaWiki would be a better platform to start with. Or possibly Drupal.

      This implementation is limited by a lot of things, including the fact that the paragraph and the page are the only units of text that can be commented on.

      But it’s a great way to get a lot of people experimenting with relatively low technical threshold to cross.

    • Comment by E.D. Kain on March 13th, 2008

      Interesting concept.

    • Comment by Paul on March 14th, 2009

      I’m a little at a loss for how ‘marginalia’ is lost. the ebook is always availalbe on the web’s ‘shelf’ just like any old book hidden on your book shelf. the same way you go back to find your book notes, you can find your web notes along with those of others which should provide a more edifying experience overall.

      i’m sure at some point the text and comments of important texts will be provided in a print version – there will always be a need for canonization by materialization. At that point, the text and annotations will be easily pulled and distributed to all. The social evolution of the book can be made palpable.

      This experiment excites me a great deal.

    • Comment by alan on March 30th, 2009

      this is really interesting!

    • Comment by mace on June 1st, 2009

      Personally i think a WP plugin is not a perfect solution, since it’s not generalist. I would find a 3rd party service for centralized comments and a method for client (browser) to fetch and display them. Such a system perhaps already exists, but i’ve just failed to utilize it. Anyhow the idea and implementation of this commenting system is fantastic in a limited context. You’ve done an excellent job at questioning the standard style of blog comments (i cannot believe that hasn’t evolved after blogs were invented) and presenting a functional examples of an alternative.

    • Comment by mace on June 1st, 2009

      I guess it is an inherent feature of commenting on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, that i already wrote about the issues rised here in an earlier comment above. Perhaps it would still be a good idea to first read through the whole text at one uninterrupted go before commenting. Instead of hopping from reading-mode to commenting-mode after each paragraph ;)

    • Comment by mace on June 1st, 2009

      There’s an simple article about web annotation on Wikipedia, with a list of implementations: I should go and try some.

    • Comment by Stuart on October 24th, 2009

      Any updates for commentpress latest development?

    • Comment by Robert on December 3rd, 2009

      Nice para

    • Comment by test on December 11th, 2009

      This is  a very nice feature.

    • Comment by demetri on December 18th, 2009

      i like the image of the book!

    • Comment by demetri on December 18th, 2009

      nice picture

    • Comment by Rachael on January 7th, 2010

      need to edit: “it can constantly being revised.”

      • Comment by Christian Wach on January 22nd, 2010

        Thanks for the heads up Rachael – now fixed

    • Comment by Luc Legay on June 21st, 2010

      A nice comment

      • Comment by Yida Wang on July 15th, 2010

        Interesting pic!

    • Comment by jenny on December 23rd, 2010

      comment

    • Comment by jenny on December 23rd, 2010

      hello

    • Comment by Canker Sore Treatment on January 25th, 2011

      :’: I am very thankful to this topic because it really gives useful information ,”:

    • Comment by Magnus on February 20th, 2011

      This is a test comment. Hello, humans. Testing my typing skills. Bye, humans.

    • Comment by qualir on May 30th, 2011

      As you said ! the future is good!

    • Comment by thai on October 25th, 2011

      I like the margin comments. Is it possible to place comments directly below the paragraph in a hide/show format? I’ve been searching for this kind of solution for some time now. Mostly trying to string multiple WordPress plug-ins together…which gets tricky in a hurry. I haven’t dl Commentpress yet but I hope its not to difficult to skin and rearrange some of the page elements. Also, how would you suggest having multiple books on one comment press?

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 16th, 2011

        No, at present it’s not possible to change where the comments appear, but you could create a child theme to do this. Bear in mind that it would involve some pretty major revision, however.

        Multiple books can easily be done by installing CommentPress in a multisite environment.

    • Comment by petunias on December 21st, 2011

      I not to mention my guys have already been reviewing the great hints from your site and all of the sudden got an awful feeling I had not expressed respect to the site owner for those tips. These guys ended up so warmed to read through them and have definitely been having fun with them. Thank you for genuinely quite accommodating and then for choosing some good ideas most people are really desperate to learn about. My very own sincere apologies for not expressing appreciation to you sooner.

    • Comment by marygabq on January 24th, 2012

      One advantage of comments in a separate pane is that a longer comment doesn’t interrupt the flow of the content but can be displayed in full in the separate space.

    • Comment by Juliana Hunsinger on January 29th, 2012

      Very informative post.Thanks Again. Want more.

  • Examples (46 comments)

    • Comment by KF on July 26th, 2007

      My in-process article on Commentpress, in Commentpress: http://new.plannedobsolescence.net

    • Comment by Dylan Knight Rogers on July 26th, 2007

      The Untitled Document is using Commentpress:

      http://theuntitleddocument.org

    • Comment by Jeppe K on July 30th, 2007

      I created a website with the Constitution of Denmark for people to debate a much talked about future update of the law. It’s called Grundlovs Debat.

      It’s in Danish though, so non-Danish readers probably won’t get much out of it, but Commentpress is a very cool tool for discussing texts like that.

    • Comment by mjd on August 3rd, 2007

      I am using the Theme to dust off and work on a decade old project: Nomads at the Gate (http://dubnick.com/nomads/). I am just getting use to WP, so this is going to be slow process of gearing up….

    • Comment by kadewe on August 8th, 2007

      Howdy Book Futurists,
      I am setting up a “Plog” at http://www.didactalab.de/plog – right now it is in German language, but here is a short synopsis of the Plog idea:
      A “Plog” is a Publication Blog, where the author(s) reflect their publications:

      Short synopsis of the most important points with some quotes
      reflection of thoughts
      background infos and material, insights from today (what was good, where did we go wrong etc.)
      rediscover ideas
      make texts accessible where no fulltext is in open access
      start discussion with readers
      collect ideas, questions, contra-positions etc. from the readers

      It’s a great tool – thanks for making it available!

    • Comment by copystar on August 11th, 2007

      Scholr 2.0 : a white paper by Scholars Portage
      (“getting research from one body to another”)

      Much thanks for Commentpress and all your work!

    • Comment by Alan Levine on November 30th, 2007

      I’ve been eager to try this since it came out. We just published a Commentpress version of a new NMC white paper “Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication”
      http://web.nmc.org/communication/

    • Comment by Bruce Deger on January 9th, 2008

      I am a middle school teacher and my advisory/homeroom is using the blog to discuss a book we are reading. The students and I take turns reading the book. We record the readings in Audacity and upload the mp3s to the blog posts for students who are absent. Our discussions are pretty basic at this point, but I think the format has potential for giving students practice in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

      • Comment by PJ Brunet on January 22nd, 2008

        You could also use this to collaboratively translate a text ;-)

    • Comment by PJ Brunet on January 22nd, 2008

      I had a similar idea about three years ago at the library, nice implementation!

    • Comment by Scienceguru on January 23rd, 2008

      I use Commentpress as the layout for my AP Biology class’ blog, where we discuss issues in science, technology and society: TheBiologySpace.BioBlog

    • Comment by Jack Phelps on January 25th, 2008

      Just another person testing out commentpress. neat idea; in our software we’ve got word-by-word commenting so teachers can click just about anywhere in a student’s work and write in comments, which has its advantages and disadvantages vs this.

    • Comment by Stephen Francoeur on April 2nd, 2008

      CUNY just put a draft of its 2008-2012 Master Plan up using Commentpress.

    • Comment by Michael Becker on April 13th, 2008

      I used Commentpress to put my entire master’s thesis online for public scrutiny.

      • Comment by Stuart on March 31st, 2010

        How did you find it worked in reality?

    • Comment by Ben Oehler on May 30th, 2008

      Correspondence training in theology and apologetics for students in Russia and the Ukraine.
      We just started. Give me a couple of months and I will be able to give you a kind of report…
      Prof Ben Oehler, HGE University,
      Odessa, Ukraine

    • Comment by Joss Winn on February 4th, 2009

      A site for commenting on public reports in considerable detail. Texts are broken down into their respective sections for easier consumption. Rather than comment on the text as a whole, you are encouraged to direct comments to specific paragraphs.

    • Comment by Steve on June 18th, 2009

      this is a great application. Looks like something that can really help collaboration.

    • Comment by Mr Test Guy on December 1st, 2009

      Just checking to see how this works…

      • Comment by Chart on December 6th, 2009

        ditto

        • Comment by Y-Love on January 14th, 2010

          Just testing this, and seeing how threaded the replies are.

          • Comment by M on June 28th, 2010

            Also testing the same thing

          • Comment by M on June 28th, 2010

            test

    • Comment by TESTER on December 8th, 2009

      Hello, this is a comment on paragraph 1.

      • Comment by Stuart on March 31st, 2010

        This is a test comment by Stu

    • Comment by jean Lyon on February 12th, 2010

      Hi
      I have just discovered Commentpress, thank you for making it available, great tool for some sort of collaborative work
      Please keep updating it
      Thank you from France

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        We hope you’ll be pleased that version 3.2 is out today

    • Comment by Elton on April 9th, 2010

      Are there ANY working links and examples for this project? Thanks in advance.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on April 9th, 2010

        Yes, have a look at the two MediaCommons projects posted by KT above. Will try and post  asap.

    • Comment by Nick on May 2nd, 2010

      What about commentpress moderation ?

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        Moderation is handled in the normal Wordpress manner

    • Comment by Mark on June 22nd, 2010

      Definitely thinking of using this. Does it take over the whole site though or just word docs?

    • Comment by kenichi84 on October 8th, 2010

      test test

    • Comment by JJ Aucouturier on December 13th, 2010

      The 3m10p project at Temple University used CommentPress to allow students to collaborate on research article drafts. Students in Temple’s Tokyo campus design psychology experiments and write the drafts, and psychology majors from Temple main campus in Philly debunk their work. The set-up allowed us to write 9 research papers in … only 3 months.
      http://jjtok.io/3m10p

    • Comment by Maikeul on March 12th, 2011

      TEEEEEEEEEEST

    • Comment by Brian on October 17th, 2011

      Test!

    • Comment by Juan Cobo on January 3rd, 2012

      Hello!I’ve just started to use CommentPress for the website of a book that I’m translating in instalments, a 1614 account of a journey around the world in the closing decades of the sixteenth century. You can see it at www.thetouroftheworld.org. Comments and suggestions are very welcome and would be most appreciated.Juan Cobo

      • Comment by Christian Wach on January 4th, 2012

        Really like your site, Juan. Will email you privately about a few things. Best wishes, Christian.

    • Comment by Samantha Cornell on February 13th, 2012

      I am so grateful for your blog article.Really thank you! Great.

  • Bug reports (24 comments)

    • Comment by AnnaBella on July 30th, 2007

      I tried this theme on my test site. It seems to work fine in Firefox but I get a javascript void error in IE.

      • Comment by Eddie A. Tejeda on July 31st, 2007

        This should be resolved in version 1.1

    • Comment by Dustin on October 1st, 2007

      I’ve run into this same issue. It would appear to be something that shows up in Commentpress when you have WP2.3 installed. I was able to successfully use CP with both WP versions 2.1 and 2.2.3.

      A look at my htttpd error log seems to indicate that CP causes some sort of unrecoverable error. Example:
      [Thu Sep 27 10:56:34 2007] [notice] child pid 1596 exit signal Illegal instruction (4)

      I’ve received the same issue on both Mac OSX and Solaris. I’ve tried it both with Apache 1.33 and Apache2, and PHP4 and 5.

      This really does seem to be some incompatibility between WP2.3 and CP1.4.

      Thanks!

    • Comment by Leslie Johnston on October 9th, 2007

      Is something like captcha or recaptcha in the development plan, or has added this themselves? Our sys admin wonders if there is a way to integrate challenge-response into Commentpress to avoid automated spamming.

    • Comment by Jon Potts on October 23rd, 2007

      I’m new to Commentpress and just a week old on the edublogs site.

      I’d love to use Commentpress for my English class homepage/blog, but…
      The “read/write comments” bubbles do not seem to function on my site. I click and nothing happens–my fault?

    • Comment by Godffrey on September 3rd, 2008

      We look forward to seeing developments in the future.

    • Comment by Bruce D'Arcus on February 4th, 2009

      On the floating overview list, the “Paragraph X” list seems both repetitive, and rather thin on information. Am wondering if it might be more helpful to instead have a heading “Paragraphs” followed by a numbered list that includes the first line of each paragraph?

    • Comment by MJ Ray on February 5th, 2009

      eddie@futureofthebook.org is a bouncing address.

      Anyway: when will Commentpress be accessible without JavaScript? It’s not possible to use this without failing accessibility guidelines at present, which is a shame for a good tool. If it’s not planned yet, can you outline what changes you think would be needed?

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        @MJ: It has been ever since version 3.1. The latest version (3.2) adds full compatibility with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Caveat: that’s as far as we call tell without a professional audit.

    • Comment by Jon on September 16th, 2009

      Hi there

      Is Commentpress dead? Any news of updates to theme welcome!

      Best wishes

      Jon

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        Er, no. Please check back for version 3.2 – out today.

    • Comment by Jon on September 16th, 2009

      I should add if anyone can drop the code or where to find it to make compatible with 2.8.4 pls do.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        Commentpress 3.2 now requires Wordpress 3.0.1.

    • Comment by Ruby on October 6th, 2010

      Hi, I’m using Commentpress 3.1 on my multisite Wordpress site v 3.0.1. We’re having a problem with Safari users who are logged in. When they click to “comment on this page” (or paragraph), it just reloads the page but the comment form does not appear.  It works fine in Safari for registered users, but we need for everyone to be able to comment on the site.  Is there anything I can do to fix this?

      The site is at https://blogs.hastac.org/duke/makn

    • Comment by Ruby on October 6th, 2010

      A little more info: we SOMETIMES have the above issue with Firefox and IE as well.

    • Comment by Rob Mc on December 30th, 2010

      There is a problem adding comments.  I’m using Wordpress 3.04.  I enter the first comment, say on paragraph 3, and all is well.  Then, when I go to enter a second comment, be it on paragraph 3 or any other, it won’t do it in the sidebar — the mouse never changes to allow text entry.  However, if I toggle to full page, it will allow typing.  Weird, I know, but there you go.  I’m running Chrome, if that helps.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on December 31st, 2010

        Thanks for the report Rob, will investigate

    • Comment by Martin Burr on January 23rd, 2011

      Automatic installation only installs ‘readme.txt’, error in header is the error message.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on January 23rd, 2011

        Hi Martin – Are you trying to install Commentpress from the Wordpress plugins repository? That won’t work. Please download the plugin and theme from this site instead.

    • Comment by annette on March 17th, 2011

      I’m getting an error on install.  I can activate the theme, but when trying to view the page, I get this:
      Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /hsphere/local/home/amarkham/aoirethics.internetinquiry.org/wp-content/plugins/commentpress/class_commentpress.php on line 1541
      Happens in firefox, chrome, and safari.
      I have the latest version of wp (new install, just prior to installing commentpress theme and plugin). I’m using commentpress 3.2 (downloaded again today, just to make sure there were no corrupted files. Repeated the entire process. Got the same errors)

    • Comment by Bijal on April 9th, 2011

      this is good

    • Comment by Bijal on April 9th, 2011

      Happens in firefox, chrome, and safari.
      I have the latest version of wp (new install, just prior to installing commentpress theme and plugin). I’m using commentpress 3.2 (downloaded again today, just to make sure there were no corrupted files. Repeated the entire process. Got the same errors)

    • Comment by andy on April 20th, 2011

      Hi guys,
      loving commentpress – thanks for all the hard work!
      is there any way to use a child theme of CP and still get the commentpress options? i can understand that its not possible to support other themes, but it seems counter-intuative not to support child themes, as it means i have to hack the commentpress theme itself to make any changes.
      any suggestions on how i can get round this?
      thanks :-)

    • Comment by annette on August 9th, 2011

      I’m still getting this error and I’ve never heard any response to my earlier comment about this. Please, is there any way you could look at this and help me troubleshoot what might be happening?
      thank you,
      annette
       
      Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /hsphere/local/home/amarkham/aoirethics.internetinquiry.org/wp-content/plugins/commentpress/class_commentpress.php on line 1541

  • Download (19 comments)

    • Comment by Rebecca on July 10th, 2008

      This is a great idea!

    • Comment by Giovani Spagnolo on October 2nd, 2008

      I am very pleased to see this. It has been a long time we are working on something similar, but as a standalone app, fully open source (gnu affero gplv3). Feel frre to contact me if you need some help (specially UI and UX).

    • Comment by jonair on May 4th, 2009

      “a content license selector” sounds great! but i couldn’t find out anything @ “Commentpress options page” except ‘The title for table of contents’ and ‘ The slug of post to appear as welcome message’. am i in the wrong page?
      Also, in s.korea, we have similar license scheme like CCL. can i add it to the selection?

      btw, i really hope to localize it into korean. where can i reach ‘internationalization support’ so that i start to translate?

      thanks

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        Belatedly: CP is compatible with the WPLicence plugin. Internationalisation is in the pipeline.

    • Comment by Plouin on January 5th, 2010

      paragraphe génial

    • Comment by Plouin on January 5th, 2010

      zezezezez

    • Comment by B on February 26th, 2010

      This is a test post wanting to see how this looks.

      • Comment by Kevin Schmidt on November 18th, 2011

        This is another test post wanting to see how a comment to a comment looks like.

    • Comment by Yusuf on March 1st, 2010

      Hi,

      While trying to activate this on wordpress 2.9.2 it gives the error ‘The plugin does not have a valid header.’.

      Any solution to this?

      Thanks,

      • Comment by Christian Wach on March 2nd, 2010

        I don’t get this error on 2.9.2, and AFAIK, Wordpress plugin headers haven’t changed format. Can you give bit more information on your installation environment?

    • Comment by Tim on October 14th, 2010

      FYI, the file cp_latest.zip has a bunch of hidden system files in it that you will probably want to get rid of.  These are all hidden system files:  There is a folder titled “_MACOSX” also in cp_latest there is .DS_STORE, and in themes/commentpress there is .InterarchyMirrorCacheData, etc…

      • Comment by Christian Wach on October 15th, 2010

        Thanks Tim, will look into it. We’re not far off releasing a new and updated version.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        Tim: the new version of CP is now up – no more rogue files and a host of new goodies instead.

    • Comment by Matt on December 19th, 2010

      And, as I should have said above, THANK YOU for your work!

    • Comment by Matt on December 19th, 2010

      Apologies, Christian — I hadn’t uploaded the plugin. Still having problems with display, but no longer getting error messages about undefined calls. Feel free to delete my comments above (except for the thank you, which still stands!)

      • Comment by Christian Wach on December 20th, 2010

        Comments duly deleted… thanks for the thanks… if you want me to take a look at the remaining issues, let me know. Christian

    • Comment by Steve on December 2nd, 2011

      Hello .. nice tool 

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  • Roadmap (17 comments)

    • Comment by Keith Webster on February 1st, 2008

      Hi there,

      We are using WordPress MU at the University of Victoria for distance courses and program community building. Are there any plans for the Commentpress theme to work with WordPress MU?

      Thanks,

      Keith Webster

      • Comment by jerome on February 11th, 2008

        that would make an amazing tool!

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        Belatedly: Commentpress has worked with MU since version 3.1

    • Comment by dc on March 21st, 2008

      One feature I’m really hoping to see is the ability to break up long chapters into multiple pages using the tag (currently supported by wordpress). As it is now, if the post is broken up into multiple pages, a comment for paragraph 3 would be linked to the 3rd paragraph for every page of that chapter, not just to the one page it was meant to be linked to (sorry for the awkward wording there — I hope you can understand!).

      Also, I would love to see some form of footnotes feature implemented as Papier Machine wrote above. Instead, I was forced to write my own footnote script that worked with commentpress.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        Commentpress has supported multi-page posts since version 3.1. It also seems to work fine with jquery-tooltip.

        • Comment by Jack Dougherty on February 9th, 2011

          Christian — in your current version of CommentPress hosted by FOTB, I see a reference to “rollover footnotes” code with Jquery tooltip. But this code does not appear in the CommentPress v3.2 that I recently downloaded. Is it a separate WP plug-in that I need to install? thanks!

          • Comment by annette on August 16th, 2011

            Jack,
            did you find an answer to this question about rollover footnotes? I’d be interested, as I will have the same issue when i start using this next week.

            • Comment by Christian Wach on August 17th, 2011

              Yes, here

    • Comment by Xavier Normand on June 10th, 2008

      What about translation in french?

    • Comment by ActualAl on February 24th, 2009

      Hi Guys. Forgive my ignorance but after reading the Eduspaces comment does this mean that Commentpress runs on wordpress Mu too??

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        @ActualAl: yes

    • Comment by Mark French on October 12th, 2009

      I would like to have the option, of displaying the all the paragraphs of the original article side-by-side (contextually) with the comments of a selected individual user.
      This would give greater coherence to the views of individual commentators and would open all sorts of creative possibilities for versioning.

      A great tool!

      Mark

      • Comment by Danny on February 3rd, 2010

        The ability to tag the paragraphs withoiut the <p> tag. Perhaps a different custom tag, as I’d like that every single paragraph seperatly commentable.

        • Comment by Danny on February 3rd, 2010

          Sorry, id like it it every single pararaph WASN’T seperatly commentable by default.

        • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

          This can now be done in version 3.2 – please see the documentation on “comment-blocks”. What you can’t do is mix automatic parsing and manual block division on the same page.

    • Comment by Peter Krantz on February 2nd, 2011

      This looks like an awesome tool! How would one go about structuring several “books” with states in the same Wordpress instance? I guess many people have a process that involves several publications. For each there is a beta stage where comments are accepted and taken into consideration after which a new version is published.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on February 2nd, 2011

        My immediate thought would be to use Commentpress in a multisite setup/environment. Each “book” would be equivalent to a “blog”, with new revisions being new blogs.

        How you decide to migrate the content from one revision to the next would be the only slightly tricky part – but you could always just export the blog using the built-in Wordpress exporter, I suppose… though that would take all the comments with it. Not too hard to amend what gets exported, however.

  • Installation (14 comments)

    • Comment by Roberto Pettinato on November 28th, 2009

      interesting

    • Comment by demetri on December 18th, 2009

      when I get to step 13 of the installation, i get this:

      Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /users/leaf3/users/web/irtemed/web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/commentpress/class_commentpress_display.php on line 1546

      any ideas?

    • Comment by demetri on December 18th, 2009

      Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /users/leaf3/users/web/irtemed/web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/commentpress/class_commentpress_display.php on line 1546

      • Comment by Kevin Lim on January 17th, 2010

        Same problem as demetri. He’s probably using the latest WP install, 2.9.1, like me. Are there any solutions to this?

        • Comment by admin on January 22nd, 2010

          Thanks to Kevin’s input, we now seem to have fixed this. Download cp_latest.zip for an updated plugin.

          • Comment by Anupam on March 18th, 2010

            I downloaded the latest Wordpress 2.9.2 and tried using cp_latest. I am unable to activate the theme. It keeps telling me:

            “The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
            Name    Description
            commentpress    Stylesheet is missing.”

    • Comment by annette on March 17th, 2011

      I’m getting a similar error on install.  I can activate the theme, but when trying to view the page, I get this:
      Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /hsphere/local/home/amarkham/aoirethics.internetinquiry.org/wp-content/plugins/commentpress/class_commentpress.php on line 1541
      I have the latest version of wp (new install, just prior to installing commentpress theme and plugin). I’m using commentpress 3.2 (downloaded again today, just to make sure there were no corrupted files. Repeated the entire process. Got the same errors)

    • Comment by Ed Keller on March 24th, 2011

      I am also getting the same error as Annette’s March 17th.
      Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /nfs/c02/h06/mnt/24432/domains/distlearn.aumstudio.org/html/wp-content/plugins/commentpress/class_commentpress.php on line 1541
      We are running wordpress 3.1, and we did download commentpress 3.2 just last week.
      When running only the theme, it loads fine. When enabling commentpress plugin, the error happens.
      Any help appreciated.
       

    • Comment by Christian Wach on April 4th, 2011

      @Annette and @Ed – I cannot reproduce this. Could you post more details or contact me directly if you need more help.

    • Comment by M Farrington on September 16th, 2011

      I’m wondering how I can get to the CSS to change basic things like the footer color and such. I’ve gone to the Admin dashboard and then to the Editing part of the interface, but the custom CSS appears hidden.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on September 16th, 2011

        I’d recommend creating a child theme to override styles, but if you need to edit the css in the theme from the Wordpress backend, you should just be able to add your style overrides in either style.css or custom.css

        • Comment by M Farrington on September 16th, 2011

          Thanks – will try that today.

  • Formatting Your Document (13 comments)

    • Comment by K.G. Schneider on July 22nd, 2007

      Many journalists I know refer to “graphs.” A “paragraph” could be the larger term. Or to be clearer, change the term for the aggregated paragraphs — perhaps call them “comment sections.”

      • Comment by RAVI on June 21st, 2010

        SUPERB KUMMASAV

    • Comment by ben vershbow on July 27th, 2007

      Another option: Jack Slocum, whose own granular commenting system very much influenced Commentpress, calls them “blocks”.

    • Comment by Patri Friedman on September 9th, 2007

      It’s awesome that you use paragraph tags, I wrote my own commenting system many years ago in perl and it also used paragraph breaks. So hopefully I can port my book draft over to Comment Press with minimal reformatting required.

    • Comment by Andrew on March 16th, 2009

      This is an interesting piece of software – looks fantastic for this kind of thing actually.

    • Comment by Dan Weinstein on May 24th, 2009

      I like “blocks” myself. I also like “units” or “sense unit”.

    • Comment by Dot on September 28th, 2009

      I have a document that includes many bulleted lists, and Commentpress is essentially useless because there is no way to indicate that a list is a paragraph. Doesn’t help to add tags around the list. Makes me very sad, as Commentpress is so useful otherwise.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        @Dot: Commentpress 3.2 has two ways to generate commentable blocks -either leave the text as is and it’ll parse <p>, <ul> and <ol> tags, or use the new “comment-block” divider in the edit page screen to arbitrarily sub-divide your text.

    • Comment by Dave Ferguson on April 21st, 2010

      “Lexias” is cute, from an obscurity point of view.  I get the concern about “paragraph.” 

      If I follow, text blocks (like <p>, <ol>, <ul>) are commentable.  Is blockquote?

      What if you have an embedded ul?  As in:
      <ul><li>blah blah
      <li>blah blah
      <ul><li>sub-blah blah
      <li>sub-blah blah
      </ul><li>Back to the main blah
      </ul>

      I’m not sure that’s necessary, just wondering.  From the example, it seems the comments apply to the <ul> tag, not the subsequent <li> tags.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on November 17th, 2010

        @Dave: sub-lists break Commentpress at the moment. Sorry about that – we’ll look more closely at it and see what’s possible.

    • Comment by Mark Walters on April 14th, 2011

      Can’t get vimeo video to embed. Can someone supply more details on how to do this? Thanks. Mark

    • Comment by annette on August 16th, 2011

      testing comment feature

  • How to read a Commentpress document (9 comments)

    • Comment by afg on May 4th, 2010

      I installed both the theme and the plugin onto my MU wordpress site and I’m sorry to say that neither the theme, nor the standalone plugin seem to work:
      the paragraph by paragraph commenting does not function.
      When miraculously the bubbles appear next to paragraphs, and even more miraculously link to the comment box, any comment submitted for a paragraph refuses to stick and just migrates to ‘comments on the whole page’.
      This is too bad.
      The concept is excellent. The Lapham Quarterly execution is extremely sharp. But your distribution of the theme and plugin do not work.
      Should they be updated?
      Where can one procure the version developped and customized by the Lapham Quarterly?

    • Comment by test on July 2nd, 2010

      test comment

    • Comment by elan on January 14th, 2011

      I am trying out CommentPress on a WP 3.0.3 installation as a Network/MU and also have Buddypress 1.2.7 installed.
      I do not see the top navigation bar.  And as a matter of fact it looks like the CommentPress header and the Buddypress navigation conflict with each other.
      Any ideas?
       

      • Comment by Christian Wach on January 14th, 2011

        Sorry, but Commentpress has not been developed with Buddypress in mind, nor has it ever been tested with it. I am aware that the admin bar that is enabled by default in WP3.1 conflicts with the Commentpress navigation bar, so the plugin disables the admin bar for now. I am considering the options with regard to this, but can’t see a solution at present because both are absolutely positioned at the top of the page by default.

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    • Comment by Timothy Burke on February 22nd, 2011

      Is there a way to have the Table of Contents be the default display in the right hand column rather than Comments? I’m trying to use Commentpress for an entire class of students working on research papers. I’m going to assign each of them a parent page with several child pages (abstract & topic, research notes, draft). Having the Table of Contents up makes it a lot easier to navigate between students and see the total range of pages on site.

      • Comment by Christian Wach on February 23rd, 2011

        No, at present this isn’t possible. You could perhaps use multiple tabs to do what you want, with the TOC visible in the ‘master’ tab and open pages in new tabs instead of the same window.

    • Comment by Ken on July 26th, 2011

      I am new to using Commentpress (my College just installed it for me), so I apologize for this simple query: I don’t see all the buttons you mention in this page.  In my installation, I see at the top a “home page” and “title page” button, but not a comment button or a thumbtack or anything else.  Do you know why that is?  Did we not install something that should be there?  Do I need to change some setting?  HELP!  Many thanks

    • Comment by annette on August 17th, 2011

      can i copy this page and put it into my own document as a guide for readers?
       

  • General Comments (5 comments)

    • Comment by Chart on December 6th, 2009

      I think this works great….

    • Comment by wertwertfwer on December 17th, 2009

      ewrewrwe

    • Comment by demetri on December 18th, 2009

      After installing commentpress and following the directions, I’m getting a “fatal error” in the coding. Any advice on this?

    • Comment by Mary on May 25th, 2010

      comment

    • Comment by Amanda French on September 11th, 2010

      The theme is broken with WordPress 3.0. I did adapt it so that it works to some extent (see the site URL I’ve given), but I couldn’t get the paragraph-level commenting to work and so I removed it altogether from the plugin & theme. I left “General Comments” enabled and renamed it “Comments on the Book.” Let me know if you want the code and I’ll be happy to give it to you — I like the “bookishness” of the CommentPress theme enough to forego the paragraph-level commenting.

  • Structuring your Document (4 comments)

    • Comment by really on November 22nd, 2010

      ffffff

    • Comment by Ken on January 5th, 2011

      test comment this is what a comment should look like.

    • Comment by Eduvator on June 26th, 2011

      Checking how Commet Press works…

      • Comment by sean on December 4th, 2011

        Replying to a reply.

Comments on the Blog

  • A new look to the sidebar (2 comments)

    • Comment by Joel on December 15th, 2011

      Dumb question probably, but can I install Commentpress on a regular old Wordpress blog if I have Wordpress Pro?

      • Comment by Christian Wach on December 21st, 2011

         

        By “WordPress Pro”, I assume you mean a premium service on wordpress.com. If that’s the case, then no, I’m sorry, that’s probably not possible. As far as I know, you can only use Commentpress on a standalone Wordpress install.

         

  • Hello world! (1 comment)

    • Comment by admin on November 19th, 2009

      Test comment