[[!template id=plugin name=comments author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]
-[[!tag type/useful]]
+[[!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
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
-[[lockedit]] and [[anonok]] pages for details on locking down a wiki so
-users can only post comments.
+[[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]]` [[ikiwiki/directive]].
+[[comment_directive|ikiwiki/directive/comment]].
There are some global options for the setup file:
## comment moderation
If you enable the [[blogspam]] plugin, comments that appear spammy will be
-held for moderation. Wiki admins can access the comment moderation queue
+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 comments are stored in `.ikiwiki/comments_pending/`, and can be
-deleted, or moved into the wiki's srcdir to be posted.
+Comments pending moderation are not checked into revision control.
+To find unmoderated comments, `find /your/ikiwiki/srcdir -name '*._comment_pending'`
+To manually moderate a comment, just rename the file, removing the
+"_pending" from the end, and check it into revision control.