CommentPress

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

No “CommentPress Options” tab after installation. Main blog page looks strangely empty. An individual entry page (e.g., http://dorn.blog.usf.edu/general/testing) doesn’t have either a title or the icons for commenting.

WordPress version 1.5.3-beta1

Sherman,

We’ve only tested CommentPress with Wordpress 2.2. I think that the issues you are having are related to your use of 1.5.3.

Hi there-

Found a lil’ bug which kinda stops the show — more of a typo actually — the default installs from 1.3 zip|tar have a function call commented out (lines 128-129):

// You can safely delete the single line below
// if your threaded comments are up and running
// bnc_altertable();

Since that never runs, the custom comments template never gets set (in the form action), and comment submissions post to / of the site instead of the comment script.

Nice easy fix though!

Category templates are bypassed if the Category is empty for current role.

If a category has private posts and the role allows the user to view these posts, the template works as normal.

If the current role disallows this, then the template is ignored, even if it is just plain text wrapped in HTML and BODY tags.

I want to have a custom Not Found message per “empty” category (basically, this content is member only, please join to view), but seem unable. What displays is the header immediately followed by the footer, with no content or sidebars in between.

As of now, the code is far from valid. Is no one working to finish this?

If that is the case, I’ll do it.

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.

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?

I’m trying to use commentpress 1.4 with wordpress 2.3 and found two problems:
a) the titles of the posts don’t appear when the posts are open, so the option to make comments on the whole page is not present.
b) the elements of the sidebar disappear when a post or page is open.
Are these bugs, or I’m doing something wrong?

http://iesecg.edublogs.org/

When I inserted a new paragraph to a post, the comments did not adjusted the positions. That is the comments that should have belonged to paragraph #3 belonged to paragraph #2 (the new paragraph).

Please let me know if this can be fixed.

There is a problem with the auto-creation of the three pages for comments: When a positive GMT offset is used, the call to wp_insert_post transforms the status of the new page(s) into “future”, since the GMT dates aren’t set correctly. This makes the page-creation process run over and over (it looks for pages with a status of “publish”), creating three new pages on each page load.

Solution: In functions.php, change the constructor values to:
$this->post_date_gmt = get_gmt_from_date($this->post_date);
and
$this->post_modified_gmt = get_gmt_from_date($this->post_modified);

Also, delete the four time-related lines in the function commentpress_create_page, as they are unnescessary (and wrong), thus using the default values set above.

My install of commentpress, on an admin page, shows me this:

“You are currently using CommentPress 1.4 and the latest version is 2.2. ”

There’s also a link to a non-existent version

Has anyone else tried to add a “ShareThis” widget to their commentpress site? Works fine in Firefox, Safari, IE7 etc. but I’m finding that it blows up completely in IE6.