Scrolling Comment in Box ? See examples
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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
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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 $comment) : ?> <p class="commentline"><span><?php comment_author_link() ?></span> - <?php comment_date() ?><?php edit_comment_link(__("Edit This"), ' '); ?></p> <?php comment_text(); endforeach; ?> </div> <?php endif; ?>thank you, ill take a look now- THANKS
Well, I may be missing something but in wordpress, I am not seeing any comments-body in the comments.php file.
Unfortunately, I do not know PHP and am just a tad concerned I could mess it up by trying to edit. Do you know of a plugin that does the same thing or by any chance is there a coder out there that knows what I should do? again, humbly, thank you.
(cut and pasted below)
<?php
// Do not delete these lines
if (!empty($_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 😉This is very helpful. Thank you!
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