CommentPress

lists are not highlighting correctly.

No, not fixed. This is not a list made with ol, li tags, but a straight html hack using &nbsp and numerals. Still need to fix lists and highlighting as of 1.0.

What version of Wordpress is required? Might make sense to move this to a preceding “Prerequisites” chapter. I’d expect other things to come up like what browser versions are/aren’t supported.

Just tried installing on a local server to test it but when I activate the theme I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\commentpress\functions.php on line 580

Is there a missing bracket somewhere? Has anyone else had this problem?

Just tried 1.1 and got a similar error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\commentpress\functions.php on line 605

I’m using Windows XP SP2 with Apache 2.2.4, PHP 5.2.1 and MySQL 5.0.27 installed using WAMP5 1.7.0. I haven’t had any trouble running any other PHP apps on localhost eg Wordpress, Mediawiki, and various homegrown PHP/MySQL stuff.

I had some trouble with the CommentPress zip file, both 1.0 and 1.1: Windows native zip support didn’t like it and wouldn’t copy all of the files out of it, but WinRAR seemed to copy them all ok. I’ve also tried the tar file instead and still got the same parse error.

I’ve had a look at the code in functions.php, and it’s possible that there are misplaced braces on lines 264 and 307, but changing that doesn’t fix the error.

I understand that CommentPress is a WP theme and not a plug-in, but I was curious whether there was some sort of work around that would allow you to use the CommentPress theme for one particular page / document without having to change the format of the entire blog?

It appears that the authors of this example: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/scholarlypublishing/
were able to it… but I can’t figure out how.

The page in question is actually a separate wordpress installation behind the /scholarlypublishing directory. It’s not a single category or page of a Wordpress installation - it’s a whole new installation. It may be possible to do what you suggest (we really think it is), but we haven’t had the time to figure out how yet. If/when we do, we’ll definitely post the instructions here. Thanks!

The “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end ” errors are (at least in my case and most likely anyone else’s) caused by the usage of short open tags in the Commentpress code, combined with a PHP install that has short_open_tag set to false, i.e. off.

You first hit it when activating the theme, and if you fix all the short tags in function.php you’re not done, they’re everywhere. So if you can, just relent and set

php_flag short_open_tag 1

on a per-directory basis for the commentpress/wordpress install.

It’d be nice if there weren’t any short tags, but I’ll heed the beggars not being choosers wisdom

Might I suggest if the devs aren’t up for replacing all the short tags, you mention this in the installation? Chances are a lot of people will not bother to figure out the problem, be a shame to lose people over that little bit…

Todd, we’ll make sure to make the appropriate changes. Thanks much for spotting this! (I didn’t even know short tags were an option - just thought that’s how everything was).

The install docs say, “OPTIONALLY: You can click on ‘CommentPress Options’ to change presentation mode (from “document” to “blog” mode).”

But the ‘CommentPress Options’ page has no such option.

no luck….. tried installing the theme - using WP2.2.3 - though I followed the instructions - it’s not happening…. getting blank pages for front- and backend….what a shame….
I can work with WP - but don’t have enough experience with php to go in a fix those errors myself….

Just installed 1.4 on WP 2.3 and it seems to be working fine, though I had to change line 18 in functions.php (in the root commentpress directory) to the address of my blog in order to avoid error messages.

I followed the steps on paragraph 2 but Wordpress does not show the theme “commentpress” when I reach step 9. IN addition, I tried to install another theme and it does not work either. It does not show any error message, everything looks Ok but at the end it does not work. Any suggestions. Please…..

I am running on Windows XP, php 5.2.4, mysql 5.0.45, wordpress 2.3.1 and apache. Even though I could finally install commentpress, now I have a real problem. When the theme starts it shows me in the Table of Content, the “Hello world!” entry but when I click on “Hello world!” it shows me a new white empty screen, and if I go back and try to do it again the apache sends me a message telling that sorry but it needs to close it. In another opportunities when I click on Hello world, it shows me the next message:

“Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/downloads/version.php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream:
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because
connected host has failed to respond. in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\commentpress\functions.php on line 583

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\commentpress\functions.php on line 583″

What could I do?
Thanks

Chris, what kind of errors were you getting? I’ve installed CP, but I get 404 errors when I click on a post’s link in the table of contents, for example. Is that the problem you’re talking about?

Thanks.

The first time that I make click on the “Hello World!” comment appears a white empty screen, then I reload the page and when I try the second time the white screen appears again but now apache said “Apache HTTP Server has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” I try to install in two different computers but in both cases I have the same problem. So, what do you recommend me?

Hello again. Still having trouble. I made the root wp directory writable, so now when I update the permalinks structure I get the message that the update worked, but when I click on the link to any post I get a blank page.

Suggestions?

Hello,

I’ve done a new install of CommentPress, and get exactly the same error.

If I use a different theme the posts show up fine. With the CommentPress theme enabled the main page comes up OK, the comments-by-section page are fine and the ABOUT page are fine. But individual post pages open blank. I haven’t checked the server log yet, but my guess is its something in the PHP.

I am running WordPressMU 1.3, which I think is using the 2.3 codebase.

Any ideas?

Yup, same problem. Installed WP 2.3.1 for a specialty blog freerangelibrarian.com/ontologyismiscellaneous and the posts don’t display (though the pages do). Whoops, back to PowerPoint for Tuesday’s talk… glad I know this now. I emailed Eddie as well.

I’ve been poking at a colleague’s broken install, and I’m pretty sure the problem is related to WP 2.3 — all of my working installations are in older versions. If you can, try backing your WP down to 2.2…

Yeah, we recently became aware of the problem. A new round of upgrades/fixes is being planned that will address this among other things, but it could be a few weeks to a month. For now, CP projects will have to stick to WP 2.2. Sorry about that. Expect progress soon.

I’ve installed WordPress 2.2.3 and CommentPress 1.4, accessed at https://force.pa.msu.edu/blog0/ (note that it’s currently using a self-signed SSL cert, so browsers will complain) and have noted a couple of oddities. First, there doesn’t appear to be a link to log in anywhere on the main page. Are you expecting users to manually type in the “wp-login.php” part of the URL into their address bars if they want to make a comment? Wouldn’t making a “log in” link *somewhere* on the main page be a logical default setting? Yes, I can modify your style sheets to do this (as I tweaked the grey color scheme towards green on my test site), but it seems an odd choice to make everyone have to do it manually. At least, once I’ve logged in via the “type out the URL in the browser site area”, there is a link for logging out down in the COMMENTS area (not the first place I would have looked, but at least it is there). Second, the links in the BROWSE COMMENTS area point to “comments-by-user”, “comments-by-section”, and “general-comments” in the top-level WordPress directory, which don’t exist in the standard WordPress 2.2.3 installation, nor does installing CommentPress according to your instructions put anything there. There are files with similar names in the wp-content/themes/commentpress subdirectory (they just have “.php” suffixes), but typing out the full URL to access them results in the display of blank pages. Similarly, the “about” link in the footer points to a URL that doesn’t exist in a default WP install. Is there a step in your instructions I have missed, or is there an instruction step missing?

Ben - don’t you think it would be helpful to put that information on the front page, rather than claiming it works in 2.3, and making a developer wade through all this to work out what’s wrong?

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Installed everything to the letter, but Commentpress still not appearing in the “themes” section.

Probably not a commentpress issue, but could you direct me to where I could find a solution?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in …/wp-content/themes/commentpress/functions.php on line 855

- the result of trying a selection of the theme on a virgin wordpress-2.3.3

Re: point 7. For some reason, Default is the only comment option which works. Furthermore, the comment browsing pages (by commenter, etc.) have a URL issue.

I just installed commentpress but I am getting these error messages on the individual post pages:

Warning: include() [function.include]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/todayspo/public_html/29r/wp-content/themes/commentpress/single.php on line 6

Warning: include(http://29r.netskins/blog/sidebar.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/todayspo/public_html/29r/wp-content/themes/commentpress/single.php on line 6

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘http://29r.netskins/blog/sidebar.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/todayspo/public_html/29r/wp-content/themes/commentpress/single.php on line 6

There is an example at:
http://29r.net/2006/11/1l-law-school-study-aids/

I am not a programmer but I am guessing the code is calling a function that doesn’t exist or is misplaced.

Any help would be appreciated.

I had my blog password protected by Angsuman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin
and I had to deactivate that before the blog would allow me to view site once I had the theme installed and selected.

Any way to work around this for use with this plug-in?

Thanks!

Do we know what the base PHP setup the servers need to run in order to handle the short cuts?

I’m totally lost! I have some ideas for using this concept but I can’t figure out the “simple” download and install instructions. How do I get help?