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Switching off comments hides comments already received
In 4.0.3, articles that had comments, and that were later set to ‘comments off’, no longer show the comments already received (i.e. received before switching off comments). This is not the expected behaviour. It should be possible (like it was) to receive a number of comments and then switch off comments for an article, retaining the comments already published.
‘Comments on’ should mean: ‘allow comments to be added’. In addition, there should probably be a ‘hide/show comments’ switch for each article.
Update: I noticed that setting the global ‘Disabled after’ preference (in Admin > Preferences) to anything other than ‘never’ also causes comments already received to no longer be displayed. This, again, is not the expected behaviour.
Last edited by Hiram (2006-01-03 12:33:26)
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Re: Switching off comments hides comments already received
Can you show us your comments_display form?
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#3 2006-01-03 22:39:31
- zem
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Re: Switching off comments hides comments already received
Sounds like you have the <txp:comments /> tag enclosed within <txp:if_comments_allowed>...</txp:if_comments_allowed>.
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Re: Switching off comments hides comments already received
Thanks, zem and Sencer. Moving the closing if_comments_allowed tag solved the issue. Now I only need to find a way to hide the ‘commenting closed for this article’ phrase under articles with no comments. I guess the string is defined in some file in my textpattern directory, and I can simply change it to “ “?
Update: The solution was to change ‘commenting closed for this article’ in textpattern/lang/en-gb.txt to . Just deleting the string displays ‘commets_closed’ on the page.
Last edited by Hiram (2006-01-05 18:17:11)
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