Comments on: Comment-Policy WordPress Plugin

By: Eduardo Larequi

Eduardo Larequi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:46:30 +0000

I’ll try to contact Tarski theme creators. If they can find an easy solution, I’ll inform you.

Anyway, thank you very much for your interest.

By: GNot

GNot — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:34:08 +0000

I had some time to take a look at it. Finally, it has nothing to do with the preview pluging.

The automatic (using javascript) placement of the comment-policy checkbox does not work with the Tarski theme’s comment form. I tried for a while to find a quick workaround, but I didn’t manage to do it. I’ll try to find another more general way to arrange elements in a future version.

Until then, if you find a workaround, I would be very glad to know about.

By: Eduardo Larequi

Eduardo Larequi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:43:36 +0000

Thanks, GNot, for your quick answer.

I’m using Live Comment Preview plugin. I’ve deactivated it for a while in order to check the position of Comment-Policy checkbox, but even without Comment Preview this checkbox appears under Submit Comment button.

After this test, I’ve reactivated the Live Comment Preview plugin.

By: GNot

GNot — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:09:04 +0000

Hi Eduardo,

The plugin should take care of this, provided that the comment textarea id is “comment”. Your textarea has this id, so I am out of ideas of what might be wrong. I’ll try to use the theme you use on a test blog and also would like to know the name of the “comment preview” plugin you use in your blog. Maybe there is a conflict with that plugin which needs to be resolved.

Thanks for your feedback.

By: Eduardo Larequi

Eduardo Larequi — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:43:24 +0000

Thank you for this excellent plugin.

I’ve trying to style Comment-Policy in order to have it just before the Submit Comment button (“enviar comentario” in spanish), but to no avail.

I’m using the Tarski theme. Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

By: Melle

Melle — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:41:40 +0000

Thanks, I needed this!

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:11:17 +0000

thanks for the plugin! simple and effective.

By: GNot

GNot — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:05:02 +0000

Thanks for testing it with AJAX comments. :-) Indeed, there are more sophisticated ways to implement this concept.

IIRC, I had tried to use a secret field name that was modified dynamically every time the page was loaded, but this method had a drawback in the case a human user had forgot to accept the terms and had to go back and check the checkbox. Actually, I cannot remember what exactly was wrong (I have to try it again :-) ), but I would have to make the code more complex in order to overcome that issue, which is something I generally do not like. I like the plugin code to be as simple as possible for easy maintenance. But, I’ll recheck this when I have some free time.

Although the current implementation is very simple, it works fine for the moment. Almost all comment spam attempts from bots (and these are some thousands/month) end up with a 403 (forbidden) error code and never even reach akismet, which eventually has to deal with trackback/pingback spam only.

By: RandomLogic

RandomLogic — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:03:45 +0000

Great plugin, just what my simple mind needs.

It’s working great with ajax comments too!

I have a suggestion though: The “secret” key used to rename the formfield could also be done in a more sophisticated why by calculating a fieldname based on a secret and algorith only known to the server (e.g. XOR or something like that) which is reversed when the post is made to calculate the correct name to be retrieved.

Does that sound sane to you?

+rl

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:47:32 +0000

Finaly…
i wait it long!