Hello,
Now that the move has been successful, I’m trying out a new commenting system plugin called WPDISCUZ.
You can read more about it here. https://wpdiscuz.com/
The original comment editor I installed last week didn’t work properly for everyone, and it screwed up comment indentation, so I had to disable it.
Try it out, leave a comment, leave a comment rating, try the sort features, etc. You can edit a comment up to 15 minutes after making it.
You can also visit another thread to see how it looks with many comments already in place.
-Anthony
UPDATE: I think I have the “reply” in nested comments working, and the EDIT function working properly. Also, the good news is that once you put in your name and email, it should always remember you….at least that is what I’m told by the documentation.
The bad news: General comment form is at the top, and there appears to be no way to change it according to this thread:
So, just use it for a general comment about the article, or scroll down and reply to an existing comment.
UPDATE2: You can display an image (or YouTube video) within a comment, (see examples in the thread below) but you MUST use https rather than http. Just simply insert the image URL, no tags or HTML needed.
If you use http all you’ll get is a link, but no embedded image.
Feel free to play around with inserting images or video in comments below.
Heads up for those who use “Ctrl F” to search a post’s comments, unless you hit “load more comments” (perhaps again and again), you’ll only get hits for the comments in the range you can scroll down too.
Yes, that’s a bit problematic – I’m always using the Cntrl>F function.
That’s why I earlier asked for an “All” option and not just “Oldest” and “Newest”.
… testing a comment and an image:
Image not working, and it’s asking for my name, email, website again, as I try to reply to my own comment
It would be nice if the time stamp for a reply was in the time zone of the person reading it instead of PST. Was the same on the old blog.
This is a test. This is only a test. Had this been an actual emergency …
I don’t know if it has anything to do with all the work that is currently going on but when I opened my email Inbox tonight, I found there were two of every WUWT email?
Hey, a “Like” button?
Zowie!
And one that tallies up and down votes into one number too!
And the big and most appreciated change?
An “Edit” function!
Thank you so much for all of your hard work Anthony Watts!
With an edit button, perhaps we should make a note when we have to edit our posts, maybe just a sentence saying that the comment was edited for clarity or for typos. whichever the case may be?
Testing pictures hosted at Facebook:
I just now tried out the ‘chain link’ function to the far right of commenter’s name.
If you click on the link button nothing happens until you refresh (of course). That will move the sub thread (beginning with the linked commenter) to the top of the main comments page in the posting. But, of course, the newest/oldest will be reset to default ‘oldest’. The linked comments will be highlighted in colored boxes. if you mouse over one of those the color will vanish. So if you want to keep the color be sure that you don’t let your mouse cross the box. If you want to remove the color just scroll right over the sub-thread and it will be gone (the color). Then when you want the linked sub-thread to go back where it belongs well… you guessed it … refresh, reset order, and scroll baby scroll ’till ya get back where you want to be.
By the way, the colored boxes using the ‘chain link’ will be nice when the bugs are worked out.
Don’t know if it matters after the fact, but when you implemented the new comment system, it appeared on all the older posts, also. And at that point I had to re-enter my vitals. All done now.
I really like the edit option. Usually I just need to add a comma or other punctuation, but reading it after posting, I always see something wrong which I can now correct. And I have already used it. THANKS!
I just noticed another problem with the new system, and it’s a serious one: The comment URLs in old articles are broken.
For example, this was the URL of a comment which I made last summer about the benefits of elevated CO2 for CAM plants (like pineapple):
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/17/study-global-warming-will-cut-crop-yields-assuming-no-adaption/#comment-2584113
That link no longer works.
The equivalent “wordpress dot com” URL still works:
https://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/study-global-warming-will-cut-crop-yields-assuming-no-adaption/#comment-2584113
But for the imported copy of the article, in the new system, the comment has a changed URL, which breaks all the old links to it. Here’s the new URL:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/study-global-warming-will-cut-crop-yields-assuming-no-adaption/#comment-2132389
Anthony, can this be fixed???
Testing to see whether this gets my name right. At some sites WordPress changes me to “jhborn.”
Below the comment-entry box it correctly says “Joe Born,” but that’s not what shows up when I post.
Still doesn’t work right.
I’d like to reiterate my “second” point from below about the “Read more” issue. If we have to have such a thing, could we make it a larger amount of text before the “Read more”? I presume that this should be some configuration setting? I’d suggest twice as much as at present. How about having a WUWT vote on what the limit should be?
Rich.
YES!
I’d like the option to just disable the “Read more” and “Load more comments” features, altogether. I can see that such features could be useful when reading on a mobile device, but on a desktop computer they’re are just a nuisance.
And testing
Everything seems to be working now.
Hey!
wpDiscuz Devs are here… Thanks for trying wpDiscuz.
First I’d suggest decrease the number of parent post for the first load to make he page load even more faster. More info about the comment pagination control: https://wpdiscuz.com/docs/wpdiscuz-documentation/settings/comment-list-settings/#pagination
The [Load More] pagination type is the best choice.
Second, I’d suggest using the collapsed thread option, it makes x10 faster the first page loading speed:
https://wpdiscuz.com/docs/wpdiscuz-documentation/settings/comment-list-settings/#view-replies
I’d also recommend set the “newest” sorting type by default. I think the newest comments should be close to the comment form and people should see the latest comments first. wpDiscuz only displays comment form on top, so the newest comments should also be on top.
When I tried to use the ‘chain link’ to link to a specific post in a thread it now shows the whole thread. I’ll see if it does it again here.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/the-total-myth-of-ocean-acidification/#comment-2374926