I am impressed with this plugin. Only tried on a test post so far, but looks great! Thanks for sharing this.

One question, is there a way to style the cjd_comment in index.php, for example, to include a raquo? Or maybe easier to put that in the custom text, now that I think about it.

Hmm... do you know any plugin or hack to exclude the custom fields needed by this plugin from the ones that show before the post? I have other kinds of custom fields that are supposed to show in the post and so this one does too :D

Do you mean translations? If you do mean translation then my answer would be sorta. You can enter any language you like into the custom field, and you can edit the plugin code to make the default and the closed comments message match whatever language you would like.

Other than that I am not sure what you are asking.

I also just Dled the newest nightly from teh WordPress site, 10-25-2004 and installed it and everything is still working fine.

And.. it works with traductions?

hi chris,

the plugin is excellent! i have two questions though:

1. when i use cjd_comment to replace the previous tag in index.php, it shows up a link to the permalink comments page. how can i make it so that the popup comments work instead? my site uses popup comments.

2. lets suppose if i dont put anything in the value field. is there any way i can change the default 'comments (0)' 'comments (1)' and 'comments (#)'? i'd like it to say something else by default. i used to have my own customized text, but it was part of the tag that cjd_comment replaced.

thanks!

Let's see here:

1. No, popup comments are bad usability and you should not use them. ;) At this time there is no way to use pop-up scripted comments, I could add support in for the next version, I am not sure.
2. You can change the default comment text by opening the cjd_comment_text.php file and finding this around line 54:if (0 == $texts) {
echo "<a href=" . get_permalink() . '#comments' . ">Comments ($number)";
   Just replace the word Comments with what ever you are wanting the text to be.

I plan on giving you an easy way to change the default text in the next version of the plugin, as well as some other goodies.

thanks for the response, chris. i hope you do decide to include the popup comments feature though. my site is a photoblog and the comments are actually critique. popup comments are easier because you can view the image while typing the critique, instead of having to scroll up and down over and over again while analyzing the images. ;)

Hey Chris
This site I'm mucking with is back in happy valid land.
All I can say is "You da man!"

Big thanks for that and keep up the great work :)

ps: not sure what happened in the last post with the google url? edit this and that out if you like

Unfortunately no, Alex's hack replaces the comment link, so it would replace mine also. Only one of them can be used at any time, not both.

Fair enough - yours stays :)

One thing I can do is try to hack up an alternate version of Alex's hack that can run along side mine.

Hopefully in teh next few days I can get around to exploring that for you.

Thanks for this plugin!

One question if that's okay.
I've been using Alex's Last Visit plugin, and would get a 'New' appear next to comments when appropriate.
His tag was this:
<?php ak_comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>

I can't seem to get the image to appear.

How would I do that ? Or is it not possible ?

Good catch, I think I might just add that to the install instructions.

Hi Chris,
concerning projektguerilla.de I found the error. I changed the index.php in the root of the wordpress directory, but not in the directory of the kubrick-theme, which I'm using. Maybe helpfull to add a hint in the installation instructions.
Your plugin works fine. :-)

For some reason, I can only set one per post comment text, and then whenever I try to edit another post or add a custom field in a new post, it doesn't add the field. It says "custom field added," but it doesn't actually add it.

Any ideas?

Any ideas?

Not without some more information. What version of WordPress are you currently running, and did the plugin ever work as advertised?

Sorry, I forgot about this post =P

I use the latest mingus build of WP. But I've gotten it to work somewhat. it adds the custom field the first time you click either "Add custom field," "Publish," or "Save." You just can't add or edit a custom field after doing one of those things already.

Works, though. Nice plugin.

Hey Chris, just wanted to let you know that this plug-in is works great with the new WP 1.5 release. I have installed on my site right now. Thanks for the time you put into these plug-ins. Cheers!

Very cool Shawn, welcome back!

And I appreciate your kind words.

Oh, btw, I meant to ask in my previous (bad grammar filled) post. Will you be updating this plug-in in the near future? I read some of your comments that there will be an update with a few goodies? What are these said goodies? Inquiring minds want to know. ;)

Hmmmm... yeah I need to update the plugin so setting the default text will be easier. I don't remember what the other goodies were...

Shawn,

You mean as it does in WordPress by default? At this time, no. But I might be persuaded into trying to hack it in...

Hey Chris, I was wondering if there was a way to remove the link to the comments once you actually click on link to get to the comments. It works fine and the link disappears when I'm not using the plugin, but once I activate it, the link stays regardless. I hope you understand what I mean.

Well I noticed it works that way here on your site, so that is why I asked if I might be missing something somewhere. While on the issue of persuasion, maybe a way for the link text to show up as intended when digging through the archives? Hmm, what could a lowly blogger such as myself possibly do to persuade a code foo master........

It appears that way for me, because I am using a custom template for single post views. So yeah you can do that with my plugin easily, just create a single.php template and leave out my plugin.

There problem solved. heh.

I think the link to the download is broken. :)

Jenna,
Sorry about that I have moved my hosting and development to wp-plugins.org and had forgotten to update this link to reflect that, all better now.

Hey Jenna, try one more time!

I must be doing something wrong, because it's still not working for me...! :)

I'm interested in trying this out.

Does it work on WP2.0?

I've tried downloading it from the link at the top of the page but the zip file appears to be corrupted. Also I cannot find it at wp-plugins.org.

Thanks.