X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/140c0bacbadc35de93cc685313123e9e51b45704..512d860c169d776885922b7eaff0bcb2b722f12a:/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn index afaf2c7ae..48b6c6ae7 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[!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 @@ -14,18 +14,19 @@ 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 -[[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: * `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/* and !*/Discussion`. + 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. @@ -40,3 +41,15 @@ There are some global options for the setup file: 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. + +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.