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#1 2007-02-28 20:06:56

resplence

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Registered: 2006-03-07

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A page for comments only

Is it somehow possible to display the comments in a separate page, only for the comments? Like the pop up version, but without the popping up. Like this:

http://alistapart.com/comments/whereourstandardswentwrong/

I imagine it could be accomplished by hacking the pop up part, in the code, but I have a feeling it could be just a matter of using pages and forms intelligently.

I’m not exactly new to textpattern, but I only have to fiddle with it every once in while, and everytime it feels like I have to learn stuff from zero again. It’s like since I never have to spend enough time with it, my brain never actually goes into the “txp mode” so I can figure stuff like this out on my own.

If anyone knows a way, I’d make my day. Thanks.

Last edited by resplence (2007-02-28 20:08:13)

#2 2007-02-28 21:15:55

colak

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Re: A page for comments only

If you want your comments from the entire site to appear in one page the problem you will get, even with the popup, is comment pagination which is not supported through the box.

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#3 2007-02-28 21:52:32

Nell

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Registered: 2005-06-21

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Re: A page for comments only

We used the wet_recent_comments plugin to show the latest 50 comments in a page. It shows the comment author, date, original post title, an excerpt of the comment and a link to the post.

It doesn’t paginate the comments, that’s why we only show the most recent.

#4 2007-03-01 02:10:57

resplence

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Re: A page for comments only

Hm no, actually I just meant… when you click “comment”, instead of getting a popup or going to a page with both the article and all the comments, just getting a page with only the comments for that article.

So far I’ve seen that the standard behavior for comments is to ‘add’ the comments and the comment form to the article, appending all of that to it. I’d just like to click ‘comments’ and navigate to a different page to get the comments for any given article; and the comments alone.

Not all comments site-wide, and I don’t really care about pagination.

I just got home and I’ll try to do achieve this now, with pages and forms and stuff.

Last edited by resplence (2007-03-01 02:13:22)

#5 2007-03-01 02:54:30

resplence

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Re: A page for comments only

I guess I could emulate that by creating a “comments” section and making posts saying “comments for (article name)”, and then people would just comment there.

Practically, to them, it wouldn’t make a difference, and it would look exactly like it is supposed to look. The downside is that there would be no comments count on the actual article, which could dissuade people from commenting at all.