1 [[!template id=plugin name=comments author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]
4 This plugin adds "blog-style" comments. Unlike the wiki-style freeform
5 Discussion pages, these comments are posted by a simple form, cannot later
6 be edited, and rss/atom feeds are provided of each page's comments.
8 When using this plugin, you should also enable [[htmlscrubber]] and either
9 [[htmltidy]] or [[htmlbalance]]. Directives are filtered out by default, to
10 avoid commenters slowing down the wiki by causing time-consuming
11 processing. As long as the recommended plugins are enabled, comment
12 authorship should hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users.
14 The intention is that on a non-wiki site (like a blog) you can lock all
15 pages for admin-only access, then allow otherwise unprivileged (or perhaps
16 even anonymous) users to comment on posts. See the documentation of the
17 [[opendiscussion]], [[lockedit]] and [[anonok]] pages for details on locking
18 down a wiki so readers can only post comments.
20 Individual comments are stored as internal-use pages named something like
21 `page/comment_1`, `page/comment_2`, etc. These pages internally use a
22 [[comment_directive|ikiwiki/directive/comment]].
24 There are some global options for the setup file:
26 * `comments_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where comments are
27 allowed. The default is not to allow comments on any pages. To allow
28 comments to all posts to a blog, you could use
29 `blog/posts/* and !*/Discussion`.
30 * `comments_closed_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where
31 posting of new comments is closed, but any existing comments will still
32 be displayed. Often you will list a set of individual pages here.
33 For example: `blog/controversial or blog/flamewar`
34 * `comments_pagename`: if this is e.g. `comment_` (the default), then
35 comment pages will be named something like `page/comment_12`
36 * `comments_allowdirectives`: if true (default false), comments may
37 contain IkiWiki [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]]
38 * `comments_commit`: if true (default true), comments will be committed to
39 the version control system
40 * `comments_allowauthor`: if true (default false), anonymous commenters may
41 specify a name for themselves, and the \[[!meta author]] and
42 \[[!meta authorurl]] directives will not be overridden by the comments
47 If you enable the [[blogspam]] plugin, comments that appear spammy will be
48 held for moderation. (Or with the [[moderatedcomments]] plugin, all
49 comments will be held.) Wiki admins can access the comment moderation queue
50 via a button on their Preferences page.
52 The unmoderated comments are stored in the `srcdir` with a filename ending
53 in "._comment_pending". They are not checked into revision control.