Brians Threaded Comments 1.5.1
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Brians Threaded Comments 1.5.1 are out, with one little addition:
The open/closed images that I use here on my blog are now in the plugin version, and there are no external image files. Just update the plugin files and let me know if there are any problems.
Wow! This is great and works seamlessly…. I'm wondering (being not so great at the detailed coding stuff) if there's a way to change the nested comments to look more like your theme, as opposed to changing your theme to match the comments…. Is there a certain place in the comments.php that I should make those style changes?
(or if I'm making no sense, it's because I have no idea what I'm talking about…) :)
The CSS in the briansthreadedcomments.php is probably the best place to change the looks.
Great plugin. Thanks!
I agree I just followed a small course for making a blog, but when I saw this I immediatly downloaded it. Only some lettres are very small I cannot read it without my +3 glasses
Great discussion!
Does the nested comments feature work with the latest release of Wordpress?
I haven't heard that it doesn't work.
I keep getting errors of the following form:
Warning: file(/home/rmm4pi8/public_html/buckinghaminquirer/wp-content/plugins/briansthreadedcomments.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/rmm4pi8/public_html/buckinghaminquirer/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 932
Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in /home/rmm4pi8/public_html/buckinghaminquirer/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 932
Any idea what could be causing them? I am using WP 1.5.
To be clear, the errors in question show up on the 'plugins' page, and clearly prevent WP from parsing the plugin, as it doesn't even show up to be activated. I looked through the headers of the plugin, and they looked fine…tried changing the opening
I've activated the plugin and got the following error message:
It appears at the top of my admin and blog pages. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Brian,
I am experimenting a bit with a blog right now and am (as always) grateful for your threaded comments plugin which is a great design. I am wondering about something. I've noticed that if I close comments on a particular post, that the comments already still in existence still maintain the "reply to this comment" link. It appears that this link will not work in that instance, but I'm wondering if there is a way to code the plugin, so that if comments are closed, the "reply to this comment" line goes away. Is that too bizarre a question? I hope you won't mind my asking.
No, that's a very good question and it simply hasn't ocurred to me, since I have never closed comments.
I'll take it as a feature request :)
As always I appreciate your work. If you can integrate that function into the plugin, I certainly would be interested. Thanks! :)
Does this plugin need to be activated in any way? Its not working for me in Firefox (though in your blog comments the feature is working for me just fine). In IE it is working for me but there is only a checkbox, without any lines going through the middle of it (vertically or horizontally). Of course yours has some other nice little features (subscription to comments) for example… I'm not sure how similar yours is to the download of 1.5.1.
Whoops, that last comment doesn't look completely clear. The threaded comments function is working … what's not working is the open and close capability on different threads. That was the box I was referring to.
Yes, you also need to activate it on your plugins page.
I notice when I choose the specific post and the threaded comments are openly displayed, that the "open" and "close" box does not appear (this is in Firefox). When I hit the refresh button, I sometimes see the box that should be there flicker (appear for a moment) and then disappear. I'm not sure what is causing this.
Are the permissions set so the file is publicly accessible?
Forgive my ignorance … because this sounds familiar. Are permissions set from within the briansthreadedcomments.php file or elsewhere? I'm not sure I'm understanding where to check or how to adjust the permissions you are talking about.
It's something you need to do with your ftp client.
Well, I thought I had already done this, so I don't know what happened … but I reloaded the files involved and it worked. The solution had nothing to do with ftp.
Thanks again for the amazing plugin. I love it.
Thank you :) I am glad it's useful.
Brian, I'm having issues with this; looks like the link up top isn't to the latest version …? Could also be that I'm getting conflicts with another program. Can you verify that the link in the entry is correct?
I've got the strangest thing where when I comment in a thread it takes forever to consummate, and then it just posts it like a normal new comment, but when I have others try to do the same, theirs show up threaded like normal. Any thoughts?
What browser are you using?
Firefox v1.0.3
I've since completely re-installed my WP installation as well as the threaded comments plugin, and that seems to have resolved the problem.
The only difference between my previous and this installation is that previously I'd installed the newest version of the 'favatars' plugin which I have not done this time. Whether that is the culprit or not, I do not know.
If you decide to install favatars again and it comes up again, let me know and I'll try to fixi t.
Great plugin—- just one thing: the collapseicon image tag should have an alt attribute so that the XHTML becomes valid.
Thank you for pointing this out. I totally forgot to validate the page after making changes to it.
I appreciate it.
Please update the btc_alter_comment() function to properly escape the $_POST['comment_reply_ID'] variable! As it is now, it is open to all sorts of nasty SQL-injection attacks…
Specifically, change the SQL statement so that is uses
mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['comment_reply_ID'])instead of just a plain$_POST['comment_reply_ID'], I believe that should have things secure again.thanks for this great plugin! i finally moved over to wp because the only thing keeping me in livejournal was thier commenting system.
but now i've changed my theme, i can't seem to get this plugin to work any more.
any one got any ideas? theme i'm using is: http://teo.esuper.ro/download/testing/
sorry to be a nuisance.
thanks again
Well, the comments page was made for the default kubrick theme, so it's not unlikely it breaks with other themes.
If you tell me in what way it doesn't work, maybe I have some clues.
Thanks, i figured itout
Great plug-in!! I'm having trouble running it with WP-Shortstat, though. When I activate Shortstat, I get the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare maybe_add_column() (previously declared in /home/.lanier/rhyndman/robhyndman.com/wp-content/plugins/briansthreadedcomments.php:42) in /home/.lanier/rhyndman/robhyndman.com/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 262
Jeff Minard, the author of that plug-in, says it's an issue with yours and suggested I ask you – any thoughts?
Hey,
very sweet plugin.
I want to combine it with the gravatar plugin but doesnt seem to work. Been playing alot with it and threaded comments just dissapears. Have anyone succeeded with this?
cheers
yes.. i'm agree with you.. I really like this plugins too… :)
thanks !
Hi, I'd like to use your plugin, but I can't get it to work with the theme I've downloaded. Can you help? (I can reactivate it to show you the problem, if you need.) Thanks a bunch!
I can try to help.
Tell me when it's activated and not working.
How much do you know about html/php/javascript?
the function btc_alter_comment($new_id) for some reason is not passing the $new_id. I get an error because "WHERE comment_ID =$new_id" always gets expanded to "WHERE comment_ID="
Any ideas? I am using WordPress 1.5
function btc_alter_comment($new_id)The portion of the function that reads:
WHERE comment_ID = $new_iddoes not work on mine.
$new_idreturns null and so generates an error showing the sql update line that ends with WHERE comment_ID = ;Any help would be appreciated
Do you have any kind of spam filtering plugins installed that attach to the same hooks as threaded comments?
I turned off everything I thought was related to comments. The only thing I think that might fit in this category would be the badbehavior plugin? I could try turning it off.
Thanks for this useful and great plugin. I am translating some of the words to Spanish but I could not find the reference for Comment by. Where I can find it so that I can translate it?
I am sorry, but I don't quite understand what you are asking me.
Are you asking me where the string "Comment by" exists in the code so you can translate it?
Hi there, I really like this plugin. but one suggestion: could we put the long css format and javascripts into seperate files and load them into the .php files? I think that will make the code looks simple and webpage load fast. thanks.
Man this plugin is awesome. I greatly appreciate your work, but a lil' constructive criticism, your font-size is insane!.
When the browser tries to access the embedded images in the plugin file, I am getting "500 – Internal server error". In the apache log file, I am getting "[Tue Jul 18 14:02:52 2006] [error] [client 203.124.221.53] Premature end of script headers: php-script"
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Hi.
I'm happy to find this plugin!
I want to make comments order DESC, not ASC.
Could you teach me how to make chage comments order.
Sorry, for my poor English…X(
thx.
Hmm I was wondering if it were possible to separate Trackbacks and Pingbacks from the who list of comments before implementing the thread?
I've been wondering the same – has anyone separated Trackbacks and Pingbacks in Brian's Threaded Comments?
Thanks for your plugin.
But i have some troubles with it. When i am copying file comments.php to my theme and activate it, then in my blog in a comments i having error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/themes/andreas04-10/comments.php on line 136
And some more question.
What must I do to activate 'Subscribe to comments via email'
Sorry, for my poor English
Mike: "Subscribe to comments via email" is implemented with the Subscribe to comments plugin – http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/