Title: Brian’s Threaded Comments, anyone? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Brian’s Threaded Comments, anyone? * [davitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davitz/) * (@davitz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/) * Hi again. I still can’t find no reason why this plugin does not appear in the WPPM. Installation and configuration of WP is as required, resp. in the ‘out- of-the-box’-state, and the installation-guide for the plugin was precilely followed as written in the readme. * Still, the plugin refuses to appear in the WP Plugin-Management, and I don’t see why or even how to find out why it would not appear. * Brian, are you listening? Anyone outthere with a hint or pointer? Thanks. d. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199182) * That plugin needs core files to be altered – and I’m fairly sure WPPM is in stasis right now. * Thread Starter [davitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davitz/) * (@davitz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199184) * If you mean the replacement of “comments.php”, the thank you but I know this from the install.txt: * > 1) Before beginning, make backup copies of /wp-content/themes//comments.php > 2) Copy briansthreadedcomments.php to /wp-content/plugins/ > 3) Copy comments.php to /wp-content/theme// > 4) Activate brians threaded comments from the plugin page * All of these steps have been done many times and thoroughfully before I began complaining / asking for help. * Is therer anything else that needed to be done? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199185) * Why is it important that this plugin appears in WPPM ? * Thread Starter [davitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davitz/) * (@davitz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199193) * Uhm, to actually activate it, and thus, to be able to use it… I wouldn’t mind if it “would just be there” (if it would’nt appear in WPPM, but display threaded comments). * But as of now, it’s the contrary, the files are in their directories, but without any impact to the output… * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199194) * The WPPM isn’t the definitive plugin authority, the “Plugins” section of the WP administration interface is. If it shows up there, activate it. * [BrianMeidell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianmeidell/) * (@brianmeidell) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199205) * With real danger of flaunting my quite considerable ignorance, what is WPPM? I only know the plugin page in the administration interface. Does WP1.5 have a different plugin administration mechanism that I should know of? * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199206) * The WordPress Plugin Manager, DrDave’s invention. * [BrianMeidell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianmeidell/) * (@brianmeidell) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199207) * Ah, I think I used that to install spamkarma back in the day. * Is adding BTC to WPPM something I am supposed to be doing, or is it something DrDave should be doing? * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199210) * It’s not really a matter of “supposed to”, it’s a matter of choice. If you’d like your plugin to be installable/listable by the WPPM, you can choose to add it to it. It is something you do yourself as a plugin author. * That said, your threaded comments plugin isn’t _really_ a good candidate, at least for the One-Click install. The WPPM has no capacity to diddle with core files or even templates. * Thread Starter [davitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davitz/) * (@davitz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199219) * GOSH! I obviously fell into the trap of Lazyness. * I haven’t even heard of DrDaves Plugin Manager. I was actually talking about nothing else than WP’s 2Plugin Page in the Administration Interface”, in which“ BTC” (BriansThreadedComments) still does not appear … * Sorry for the confusion. * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199221) * Did you upload the plugin file to the correct location (`wp-content/plugins`)? When you uploaded it, did you upload it in ASCII mode via your FTP program? * Thread Starter [davitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davitz/) * (@davitz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199232) * I run WordPress locally for the moment. Which means, I downloaded the zip-file from brian’s site, unzipped and copied the 2 files to their appropriate locations( comments.php into /contents/themes/mytheme/ and Briansthreadedcomments.php into/ contents/plugins/). * (I already tried to put comments.php into the wp/ parent-directory, but this of course didn’t do anything.) * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199236) * My experience with more-complicated plugins is that they don’t work particularly well on a local install. * [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/) * (@coldforged) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199237) * There is no `contents` folder, by the way, just `wp-content`. * Thread Starter [davitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davitz/) * (@davitz) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/#post-199246) * Ok, but I guess you understand? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Brian’s Threaded Comments, anyone?’ is closed to new replies. * 18 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [davitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davitz/) * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-anyone/page/2/#post-199410) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics