Posted 3 years ago #
Hi,
I appreciate in advance the help. Can someone out there tell me if they know of a plugin that will allow your comment section to show all the comments in a self-contained box, which you can scroll down?
see an example below the posts here:
http://www.njoythemoment.com.au/
I've looked for days and haven't been able to find anything.
Thanks
the author is basicall wrapping the comments into a div with fixed height and 'overflow-y:auto;' - here is the essential part of the css style:
.comments-body {
height:137px;
border-left:none;
overflow:auto;
padding:5px 8px 8px 8px;
}and this for instance could be the php code in comments.php to show the comments:
<?php if ( $comments ) : ?>
<div class="comments-body">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<p class="commentline"><span><?php comment_author_link() ?></span> - <?php comment_date() ?><?php edit_comment_link(__("Edit This"), ' '); ?></p>
<?php comment_text();
endforeach; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
Posted 3 years ago #
thank you, ill take a look now- THANKS
Posted 3 years ago #
Well, I may be missing something but in wordpress, I am not seeing any comments-body in the comments.php file.
Unfortunately, I do not know PHP and am just a tad concerned I could mess it up by trying to edit. Do you know of a plugin that does the same thing or by any chance is there a coder out there that knows what I should do? again, humbly, thank you.
(cut and pasted below)
<?php
// Do not delete these lines
if (!empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && 'comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
if ( post_password_required() ) { ?>
<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>
<?php
return;
}
?>
<!-- You can start editing here. -->
<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>
<ol class="commentlist">
<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
<div class="breaker"></div>
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
<?php else : // comments are closed ?>
<!-- If comments are closed. -->
<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<div id="respond">
<h3><?php comment_form_title( 'Leave a Reply', 'Leave a Reply to %s' ); ?></h3>
<div class="cancel-comment-reply">
<small><?php cancel_comment_reply_link(); ?></small>
</div>
<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<p>You must be ">logged in to post a comment.</p>
<?php else : ?>
<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<p>Logged in as /wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?>. " title="Log out of this account">Log out »</p>
<?php else : ?>
<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo esc_attr($comment_author); ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" <?php if ($req) echo "aria-required='true'"; ?> />
<label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>
<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo esc_attr($comment_author_email); ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" <?php if ($req) echo "aria-required='true'"; ?> />
<label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>
<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo esc_attr($comment_author_url); ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<!--<p><small>XHTML: You can use these tags: <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p>-->
<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />
<?php comment_id_fields(); ?>
</p>
<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
</form>
<?php endif; // If registration required and not logged in ?>
</div>
<?php endif; // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head ?>
make a backup copy of your files first, incase something goes wrong, so you can restore the status you have now.
try and change this part of your code:
<!-- You can start editing here. -->
<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>
<ol class="commentlist">
<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
<div class="breaker"></div>
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
<?php else : // comments are closed ?>
<!-- If comments are closed. -->
<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>into this:
<!-- You can start editing here. -->
<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>
<div class="comments-body"> <!--start of the comments scroll box-->
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<p class="commentline"><span><?php comment_author_link() ?></span> - <?php comment_date() ?><?php edit_comment_link(__("Edit This"), ' '); ?></p>
<?php comment_text();
endforeach; ?>
</div><!--end of the comments scroll box-->
<div class="breaker"></div>
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
<?php else : // comments are closed ?>
<!-- If comments are closed. -->
<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>hope this works - it's not tested, but i have similar code running in my blog.
good luck ;-)
Posted 3 years ago #
This is very helpful. Thank you!
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