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#1 2005-12-01 15:44:42

Souljacker
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From: Terra Brasilis
Registered: 2005-06-20
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Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

Greetings,

I’m running TXP 4 here and am trying to remove this pretty annoying default feature. I’ve tried some hacks I’ve seen here in the forum but, although they work fine, the comment count in comment invite disappears.

Has anyone found any solution to this dilema in TXP 4?

Thanks in advance!

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#2 2005-12-01 16:16:51

squaredeye
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From: Greenville, SC
Registered: 2005-07-31
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

try nhn_hicks_live_preview
although for 4.02 some folks are having issues that nils is working on right now. :)

Hope that helps

Matthew


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#3 2005-12-01 17:26:06

Souljacker
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

I’ve put <txp:nhn_comment_submit /> <txp:nhn_comment_spamsave />

inside my commentform and the buttons just disappeared :c/

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#4 2005-12-04 14:09:39

Souljacker
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From: Terra Brasilis
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

Has anybody found the solution? I’ve been searching all the way and can’t find any solution to TXP 4, not even a hack :c/

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#5 2005-12-04 15:51:08

Infi
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Registered: 2005-05-28
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

ma_smith’s suggestion is the way to go (imo). Not only can you lose the preview button – with a handy alternate form of spam prevention – but the live preview itself is very cool. :) Mr. Nils has it nearly perfect at this point. No hacking required.

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#6 2005-12-04 17:04:11

Souljacker
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

Didn’t work as I said. The comment count don’t change :c/

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#7 2005-12-04 21:09:56

zem
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-04-08
Posts: 2,579

Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

Please read the FAQ.


Alex

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#8 2005-12-05 08:30:44

Souljacker
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From: Terra Brasilis
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

Zem I do understand why this is Textpattern default form design. But, some sites may not be targeted by Spammers and/or their owners may fell the usability issue has precedence over the Spam subject.

That’s my case. I’ve seem a lot of my users skipping comments just because they didn’t notice they had to confirm again. I’m inevitably receiving emails asking why did I erased their comments when what they don’t realize is I didn’t. They just didn’t notice they had to press submit button twice.

That’s why, for now, I would like to rip the preview button away.

Last edited by Souljacker (2005-12-05 08:31:35)

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#9 2005-12-06 22:27:35

lee
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From: Normandy, France
Registered: 2004-06-17
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

I think the dev’s should reconsider making the preview button mandatory, if a site gets comment spam they know what to do about it – implement the preview button. Please give us the choice!

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#10 2005-12-06 23:38:03

lee
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

Or how about a different class for preview and submit, and not just ‘button’ for both?

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#11 2005-12-07 02:44:07

zem
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-04-08
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Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

I think the dev’s should reconsider making the preview button mandatory, if a site gets comment spam they know what to do about it – implement the preview button. Please give us the choice!

We’ve already considered it. No one on the dev team is interested in spending their time on it. As always, we’ll consider a patch.


Alex

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#12 2005-12-07 05:13:24

Mary
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Registered: 2004-06-27
Posts: 6,236

Re: Removing preview button in comments TXP 4

As a commenter, I like the Preview button being there, so I can make sure it will display alright. You don’t always know what kind of markup, etc rules are in place. So please, everyone, don’t remove it altogether.

Don’t forget that you can leave a note to your commenters in your comment forms, like:

Your comments are encouraged and appreciated. Click “Preview” to check your comment for errors, then you may click “Submit” to finalize your comment.

I’m willing to work on a patch to make the Preview optional, but I’m hesitant if that means someone could get a rainfall of spam, just because they want to make things 1 second faster for everyone else. It’s easy to say “well we’ll jump that bridge when we come to it” before you’re the victim of concentrated spam. Seriously, unneeded prevention is a lot better than trying to fix a huge mess after it occurs.

I quite like Jon’s ‘this is not spam’ checkbox. But, that, I think may be pretty easy to work around, from the spammer point of view, so doesn’t do much except make you think you’re safer from spam than you actually are?

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