Adding comments to blog articles - Revision history

Shawn at 04:33, 27 August 2013

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Shawn at 01:29, 2 August 2010

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Shawn at 01:18, 2 August 2010

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-'''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. Before saving a blog article, you'll need to add a "more tag" above the code.  This is to ensure that the comments box doesn't appear on your blog summary page.  It can only appear on the actual article page, as it won't work in both places at once.  The "more" tag looks like this...
+'''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. Before saving a blog article, you'll need to add a "more tag" above the code.  This is to ensure that the comments box doesn't appear on your blog summary page.  It can only appear on the actual article page, as it won't work on the summary page if you have more than one comment box.  The comments will also not appear on the article page.  The "more" tag looks like this...
 <pre><!--more--></pre>
 After you've saved your article, a comments section should now appear on this article page in your store.<br>

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 '''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. Before saving a blog article, you'll need to add a "more tag" above the code.  This is to ensure that the comments box doesn't appear on your blog summary page.  It can only appear on the actual article page, as it won't work in both places at once.  The "more" tag looks like this...
-<pre><!--more--></pre>After you've saved your article, a comments section should now appear on this article page in your store.<br>
+<pre><!--more--></pre>
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 On your account page, go to the settings tab.  You should set your options so that you can moderate every comment to ensure your site doesn't get spammed.
-In the "Moderation" section
+In the "Moderation" section...
 *Choose '''require approval''' for suspicious comments (those which contain links).
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-'''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. Before saving a blog article, you'll need to add a "more tag" above the code.  This is to ensure that the comments box doesn't appear on your blog summary page.  If can only appear on the actiual article page.  The "more" tag looks like this...
+'''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. Before saving a blog article, you'll need to add a "more tag" above the code.  This is to ensure that the comments box doesn't appear on your blog summary page.  It can only appear on the actual article page, as it won't work in both places at once.  The "more" tag looks like this...
-<pre><!--more--></pre>
+<pre><!--more--></pre>After you've saved your article, a comments section should now appear on this article page in your store.<br>
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-'''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. A comments section should now appear on this article page in your store.<br>
+'''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. Before saving a blog article, you'll need to add a "more tag" above the code.  This is to ensure that the comments box doesn't appear on your blog summary page.  If can only appear on the actiual article page.  The "more" tag looks like this...
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 '''STEP 1'''<br>Go to [http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html] and log in using your Google Account login and password. If you don't have a Google Account, [https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&cd=AU&followup=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&hl=en&service=ig&ltmpl=default click here and sign up] to get one.<br> <br><br>'''STEP 2'''
-*Select Suspicious comments '''require approval'''
+In the "Moderation" section
-*Select Anonymous comments '''require approval'''
-*Select Authenticated comments '''require approval'''<br>
+*Choose '''require approval''' for suspicious comments (those which contain links).
 <br>'''STEP 3'''<br>On the HTML Comment Box [http://www.htmlcommentbox.com home page], select the following options...

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 '''STEP 1'''<br>Go to [http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html] and log in using your Google Account login and password. If you don't have a Google Account, [https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&cd=AU&followup=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&hl=en&service=ig&ltmpl=default click here and sign up] to get one.<br> <br><br>'''STEP 2'''
 *Select Suspicious comments '''require approval'''
 *Select Anonymous comments '''require approval'''
 *Select Authenticated comments '''require approval'''<br>
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 *Un-tick the "Only I can comment " field
-''The result of the options specified above is that people can add comments to your blog articles individually, and you can choose which articles to display the comments box on... as you only paste the code into articles that you want to allow comments on.<br>They also mean that you need to approve each and every comment that you get, so that no spam ends up on your Spiffy Store.''
+''The result of the options specified above is that people can add comments to your blog articles individually, and you can choose which articles to display the comments box on... as you only paste the code into articles that you want to allow comments on.<br><br>They also mean that you need to approve each and every comment that you get, so that no spam ends up on your Spiffy Store.''
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-'''STEP 3'''<br>The box above this form has some code. Select all of the code in this box and copy it (CTRL &amp; C buttons on Windows, Command &amp; C buttons on Mac).
+'''STEP 4'''<br>The box above this form has some code. Select all of the code in this box and copy it (CTRL &amp; C buttons on Windows, Command &amp; C buttons on Mac).
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 '''STEP 5'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. A comments section should now appear on this article page in your store.<br>
+Whenever someone makes a comment on your article, you will receive an email sent to the email account linked to your Google Account. &nbsp;To approve a comment, go to the [http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html Account page on the HTML Comment box website] to approve the comment.
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 *Un-tick the "Ignore Query String" field
 *Un-tick the "Only I can comment " field
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-'''STEP 4'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. A comments section should now appear on this article page in your store.
+'''STEP 4'''<br>Go to the article you want to have comments on in the "Pages &amp; blogs" section of your store toolbox. Edit the article, and paste the code into the bottom of the article. A comments section should now appear on this article page in your store.<br>
-Cheers,<br>Shawn
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 '''STEP 1'''<br>Go to [http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html] and log in using your Google Account login and password. If you don't have a Google Account, [https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&cd=AU&followup=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&hl=en&service=ig&ltmpl=default click here and sign up] to get one.
-<br>'''STEP 2'''<br>On the HTML Comment Box [url=http://www.htmlcommentbox.com]home page[/url], select the following options...
+<br>'''STEP 2'''<br>On the HTML Comment Box [http://www.htmlcommentbox.com home page], select the following options...
 *Select "Unstyled" for the "Choose a skin" field

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 Comments on Blog articles are on our list to do, but I've found a neat way to add a comments box to individual blog posts in your e-commerce store...
 I suggest you have a look at http://www.htmlcommentbox.com
 '''STEP 1'''<br>Go to [http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/account.html] and log in using your Google Account login and password. If you don't have a Google Account, [https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&cd=AU&followup=http://www.google.com.au/ig%3Frefresh%3D1&hl=en&service=ig&ltmpl=default click here and sign up] to get one.
 <br>'''STEP 2'''<br>On the HTML Comment Box [url=http://www.htmlcommentbox.com]home page[/url], select the following options...
 *Select "Unstyled" for the "Choose a skin" field
 *Enter "10" for Number of Comments to show at once
 *Tick the "Collapse Comment Box" field
 *Un-tick the "Put Comment Box At Top" field
 *Un-tick the "Use watermark labels" field
 *Tick the "Show Submission Date of Comments" field
 *Tick the "Profanity Filter" field
 *Un-tick the "Show RSS Feed of comments" field
 *Un-tick the "Show website field beside comment box" field
 *Select "Require" for "Email" field
 *Tick the "Email ME when I receive a new comment on my website" field
 *Un-tick the "Ignore Query String" field
 *Un-tick the "Only I can comment " field
-'''STEP 3'''<br>The box above this form has some code. Select all of the code in this box and copy it (CTRL &amp; C buttons on Windows, Command &amp; C buttons on Mac).
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 The result of the options specified above is that people can add comments to your blog articles individually, and you can choose which articles to display the comments box on... as you only paste the code into articles that you want to allow comments on.
 They also mean that you need to approve each and every comment that you get, so that no spam ends up on your Spiffy Store.
 Cheers,<br>Shawn