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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/Can__39__t_get_comments_plugin_working.mdwn | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/editing_a_comment.mdwn | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Can__39__t_get_comments_plugin_working.mdwn b/doc/forum/Can__39__t_get_comments_plugin_working.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f189d9b64 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Can__39__t_get_comments_plugin_working.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +I feel like I must be missing something. + +My blog is based on Ikiwiki, and uses /yyyy/mm/dd/title/ for blog posts. +Because I use the plugin that generates index pages for subdirectories, I +have to use /????/??/??/* to identify posts and avoid missing the index +pages for years, months and days. + +I've enabled the comments plugin, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to make the comment form appear on my posts. I've removed the entire site and have rebuilt. I've set the pagespec to /????/??/??/* and ./????/??/??/*, but neither seems to work. I don't see any output, or anything else to indicate that pages aren't working. + +Are there any other plugins that need to be enabled for this to work? I think I've locked things down such that anonymous users can't edit by enabling signinedit and setting a lock, but this may be blocking the ability to comment (though I don't recall seeing anything in the docs about needing additional plugins.) + +> Just use '????/??/??/*' , and it will work. +> [[Pagespecs|ikiwiki/pagespec]] are automatically matched absolute to the +> top of the site, and adding a leading "/" is not necessary and will +> make the PageSpec not match. (And the relative PageSpec with "./" is +> not right in this case either). --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/forum/editing_a_comment.mdwn b/doc/forum/editing_a_comment.mdwn index 8bddab3fb..eb534365e 100644 --- a/doc/forum/editing_a_comment.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/editing_a_comment.mdwn @@ -1 +1,11 @@ Is it possible to edit a comment? I did not find any button for it. + +> It was a design decision to not allow editing comments via the web +> interface. The thinking being that comments on blogs tend to not allow +> editing, and allowing wiki-style editing by anyone would sort of defeat +> the purpose of comments. +> +> I do think there is room to support more forum-style comments in ikiwiki. +> As long as the comment is not posted by an anonymous user, it would be +> possible to open up editing to the original commenter. One day, perhaps.. +> --[[Joey]] |