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Comment Tweaks on Geekwhat

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11 Responses to “Comment Tweaks on Geekwhat”

1. Sam Says:
   May 26th, 2007 at 1:02 am

   Looks good - I wish more blogs would do this.

   But there is a problem - how do I unsubscribe from being notified? (or is there a link in the notification email…)

   Congrats on graduating btw!

2. floria Says:
   May 27th, 2007 at 1:15 am

   cool feature.

   i have another suggestion:
   i just tried to click “next page” to get your previous 7-8 entries but instead it took me to the 2nd previous entry. can you put a link at the bottom of your list of entries so people can read older ones that aren’t listed there? i looked for an “archive” link too but didn’t find one before my inpatience kicked in. just a thought.

3. Tony Chung Says:
   May 28th, 2007 at 2:42 am

   Thanks Sam! Unsubscribing link should be in the email.

   Floria, actually the point of this new feature is to bypass 7-8 entries cluttered on one page, so that you can just skim through the contents of the most recent posts to see if you want to read more. There is an archives link at the top of the page. However, I don’t like the way it spits everything out right now. I will look into a sweeter way to load all that data…

4. Fergus Macdonald Says:
   May 28th, 2007 at 7:18 am

   Indeed a useful feature! Would be nice if you had some way of registering for the site so that users don’t have to fill in their details everytime.

5. Tony Chung Says:
   May 28th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

   Interesting idea about registering Fergus… I will look into that.

6. Callum Macdonald Says:
   May 29th, 2007 at 6:35 am

   There’s an option in WordPress “Allow anyone to register” but it would be a useful feature to be able to register while posting a comment. That would be a nice time saver. The password could be generated and emailed…

   Tony, is your code public for the “Email me feature”? If not, I might write a plugin to do that, so any tips would be great.

   Cheers - Callum.

   PS> Fergus is my bro, hence I came across this page! :)

7. Callum Macdonald Says:
   May 29th, 2007 at 6:40 am

   Oh, and it would be great if the subscribe button was above the Submit button, I just forgot to click it! :)

   There’s a trick to do that in WordPress. You can include the function in the theme using the format:

   Then when the function is called, it sets a global variable or constant to record that it has been called and only executes once. Thus if the function appears in the theme before the comment_form() action, the code will appear at the correct place, and if the function is not in the theme, it’ll appear at comment_form(), but either way, only ever once.

   Cheers - Callum.

8. Tony Chung Says:
   May 30th, 2007 at 9:18 am

   Thanks for the comments Callum and welcome to geekwhat! I appreciate the input.

   Registering to make leaving comments more convenient, I just implemented that with the ‘Join Geekwhat’ feature (a bit buggy right now, I still need to work on it). Should make life easier for active contributors =)

   For the e-mail me feature, are you talking about the link at the top of the sidebar? I did that manually.

   I have a subscribe link right below the post above, do you think it would be more effective by the comment post section? I suppose I could have it in both locations?

9. Tony Chung dot CA Says:
   May 30th, 2007 at 11:00 am

   I’m pretty sure it’s the Google ads. They cause problems for me when I use IE7 on most other sites as well. The page loads fine, it’s just that the icon showing a code problem shows up for me in the lower left hand corner of the screen. Clicking on it reveals “access denied”. That’s why I use Firefox mostly. ;-)

   Have you seen dasBlog? I love open-source as much as the next guy, but these ASP.NET folks have some cool features, avatars being one!

10. Callum Macdonald Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 3:37 am

    Hey Tony,

    Sorry, the feature I was talking about is the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.” option when you post a comment. Is that public code?

    I was also suggesting that it might be easier for users if the option was above the “Submit Comment” button. I managed to submit two comments in a row and forgot to tick the box both times! :)

    Cheers - Callum.

11. Tony Chung Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    Fixed Callum! =) I used a plugin for that feature

    http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

    Can you screenshot the Google ads problem and email it to me Tony?

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