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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: comment editing for group blogsOr maybe look at forum software which does what you want, as opposed to a blog?
whatever.moshu, the 2.0 plus the role manager plugin seems like it would work. thanks! time to upgrade.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: comment editing for group blogsa post, as opposed to a comment to a post.
i have a group blog. a large number of people can make a post. anyone can comment. the person who made the original post can edit any comments made to his/her post, whether they made those comments themselves or not. now, you’ll say “people should have integrity and not edit other people’s comments”, but people are people.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: comment editing for group blogs“I don’t think so. People should think before commenting.”
well, we can disagree. i have the plugin you mention. the problem is that in wp 1.5 anyone who makes a top-level post can edit any commment made by anyone else to that post. as to whether this is a function of wp 1.5 or is something the plugin enables, i don’t know.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: comment editing for group blogsthank you. does nobody seem to think that this should be crucial functionality for group blogs–to allow members to edit their own comments but not anyone else’s?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Allow registered users to edit their own comments?over at his blog the writer of the plugin gave me the solution to my problem above. basically, if a theme doesn’t have its own comments.php file wordpress uses the one in the default theme, and so that has to be edited and added to the active theme’s folder.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Allow registered users to edit their own comments?okay, so i decided to install this plugin after all. and immediately ran into a problem. it says to add it to the plugins folder, activate the plugin and then edit the comments.php file in the folder for my theme. however, there is no comments.php file in my theme. i have a very basic theme–all that’s in there is an index.php file and my stylesheet. here’s the code in the index file for the comments:
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<div class=”feedback”><?php wp_link_pages(); ?><?php comments_popup_link(__(‘Comments (0)’), __(‘Comments (1)’), __(‘Comments (%)’)); ?></div>
—what now?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Allow registered users to edit their own comments?well, if you are in a shared environment–which some of my group bloggers sometimes are (university computer labs etc.)–it can be a problem (since it is i.p based). plus if you make the comment from your work computer and then catch a mistake when you get home you can’t do anything about it till you’re back at work again. if this plugin is the only thing there is i’ll use it (with cautions to my members)–but i guess i don’t understand why this functionality wouldn’t just be built into wordpress’ user-levels.
allowing my registered users to edit each other’s comments (at level 4) would be a very bad idea…plus don’t they get other permissions at that level?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Allow registered users to edit their own comments?thanks!
hmmmm…went and looked at it, and it does seem both a little insecure and also limiting for registered users. what if someone wants to fix typos at a much later point than what you set as x?
registered members are allowed to edit their own posts–so why not let them edit their own comments? or at least make it part of the user-level permissions. of course i’m not a coder and have no idea how difficult it would be for something like this to be made part of the basic wordpress code.
can a developer acknowledge whether this feature is even in the roadmap? or should we make do with the limited plugins that may become available?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Allow registered users to edit their own comments?does the latest version add this functionality? to clarify again: to give registered users on a group blog the ability to edit their own comments (but not anyone else’s)?
this really is a crucial feature for group blogs.
thanks!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changing the way user levels work…what i am asking for is something very different: allow registered members to edit their own comments but not those of anyone else (at their level or below). hope someone’s working on a plugin that fixes this missing feature for any group blog.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: comment spam–can’t get rid of itelliott–i’ll give your new version a try, but as i noted in my first post in this thread, i’m already using hashcash 1.7.
my problem finally went away only after i disabled trackbacks and pingbacks and went back and unchecked the “allow pings” box on all old posts. and yes, i missed a couple and those were the only two posts to get spammed soon after. i’ll give your 2.0 version a try–but i’m guessing it doesn’t do anything about trackback spam anyway.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changing the way user levels work…a similar question but with comments: currently on 1.5 users cannot edit their own comments unless you up their level to a certain point. however, at this point they can edit the comments of everyone at their level. is it possible to change something to allow registered users to only edit their own comments?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: linking to user profilesplease see how user-profiles/posts is handled on this blog run on expression engine: http://www.thevalve.org/
when you click on an author’s name in the author list it displays first their profile and then all their posts below it. does wordpress have a plugin that does this? this would be a really neat feature for a group blog.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Allow registered users to edit their own comments?does anyone know if this is possible under 1.5? it seems like a major flaw for group-blogging.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: navigation and permalinkokay, i figured out i should just use an absolute link to the file.