Commentpress

Hi Rani,

Could you be more specific about what doesn’t work for you?
My test installs look (and work) fine in IE8 and IE9 on Win7.

Cheers,
Christian

Hi Roland,

(1) your YouTube videos work just fine here. Perhaps there’s something about your computer that prevents them from playing?

(2) Sorry, but I’ve no idea. If you do come across a plugin that does these things, I can make sure CommentPress is compatible with it.

(3) You can find the base translation file in the plugin directory languages/commentpress-core.pot. Unfortunately, there is no Spanish translation file – but any contribution towards one would be gratefully received.

Best wishes from snowy England!

Hi Martha,

It looks like whatever it is that does the syndication is not creating properly formatted post content. The specific URL you posted has an ordered list wrapped in a paragraph tag, for example. And none of the subsequent paragraphs are actually being wrapped in <p> tags (this is what wp_autop() does) which is why CommentPress cannot identify them.

When I create a new post with your markup, I too see that WordPress fails to wrap subsequent paragraphs in <p> tags. But when I remove the <p> tags that enclose the <ol>, everything then seems to work as expected. Bear in mind that because you are using <!--commentblock--> quicktags in the content, the individual paragraphs cannot be commented on – only the “blocks” that those tags demarcate.

On other pages, I notice that your basic paragraph text is being wrapped in <div> tags, which CommentPress does not parse as something that can be commented on. If you remove those, you may find that all’s well.

I’d suggest debugging the syndication code so that it inserts valid markup in the first place – otherwise WordPress (let alone CommentPress) will struggle with it.

Best wishes,

Christian

Thought I’d quickly add that, in short, any styling of post content – ie anything not done by wp_autop() – will most likely break parsing of content. This should be more robust in the next update, FWIW, but I know that doesn’t help you much right now.

@doclalor: this was initially how CommentPress worked – or tried to work. It used to create a Javascript-generated comment box from the markup of the “host” theme. Unfortunately, it became unviable because of the variety of markup in different themes. And because the JS-only approach made it impossible to comply with accessibility guidelines. I think Digress.it (which forked from CommentPress way back when) still works this way, though I’m not sure how actively maintained it is.

I can understand that you’d like a “CommentPress-ified” section to your site, but the only solution I can think of right now would be to use Multisite, where your theme is applied to the main site and CommentPress is enabled on a subsite where you want its functionality. You could then use the Theme Customizer to give CommentPress a similar colour scheme and graphic identity to your main site.

Cheers,

Christian

If you download the child theme on GitHub, it does that for you. Have a look at the functions.php file to see how it’s done. Amend to suit your needs.

As for replacing the sidebar on a specific page or pages, you can copy sidebar.php from the default theme into your child theme and add your conditional logic at the top of the file. Along the lines of:

global $post;

// for some post ID
if ( $post->ID == 'some post id' ) {

	// include your custom sidebar - point to wherever you put it
	include( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/assets/templates/your_custom_sidebar.php' );

	// kick out of the rest of the file
	return;

}

Hope that helps,

Christian