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[[!template id=plugin name=comments author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] [[!tag type/web]]

This plugin adds "blog-style" comments. Unlike the wiki-style freeform Discussion pages, these comments are posted by a simple form, cannot later be edited, and rss/atom feeds are provided of each page's comments.

When using this plugin, you should also enable [[htmlscrubber]] and either [[htmltidy]] or [[htmlbalance]]. Directives are filtered out by default, to avoid commenters slowing down the wiki by causing time-consuming processing. As long as the recommended plugins are enabled, comment authorship should hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users.

The intention is that on a non-wiki site (like a blog) you can lock all pages for admin-only access, then allow otherwise unprivileged (or perhaps even anonymous) users to comment on posts. See the documentation of the [[opendiscussion]], [[lockedit]] and [[anonok]] pages for details on locking down a wiki so readers can only post comments.

Individual comments are stored as internal-use pages named something like page/comment_1, page/comment_2, etc. These pages internally use a [[comment_directive|ikiwiki/directive/comment]].

There are some global options for the setup file:

  • comments_pagespec: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where comments are allowed. The default is not to allow comments on any pages. To allow comments to all posts to a blog, you could use blog/posts/* and !*/Discussion.
  • comments_closed_pagespec: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where posting of new comments is closed, but any existing comments will still be displayed. Often you will list a set of individual pages here. For example: blog/controversial or blog/flamewar
  • comments_pagename: if this is e.g. comment_ (the default), then comment pages will be named something like page/comment_12
  • comments_allowdirectives: if true (default false), comments may contain IkiWiki [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]]
  • comments_commit: if true (default true), comments will be committed to the version control system
  • comments_allowauthor: if true (default false), anonymous commenters may specify a name for themselves, and the [[!meta author]] and [[!meta authorurl]] directives will not be overridden by the comments plugin

comment moderation

If you enable the [[blogspam]] plugin, comments that appear spammy will be held for moderation. (Or with the [[moderatedcomments]] plugin, all comments will be held.) Wiki admins can access the comment moderation queue via a button on their Preferences page.

The unmoderated comments are stored in the srcdir with a filename ending in "._comment_pending". They are not checked into revision control.