X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/9d5075ab521a24d718a2b663e11856c8cc80eb03..48ca2c95cd9b5fc21f2d4077a22f66442126e34c:/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn index 347d7fc8d..72b11af64 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn @@ -19,15 +19,18 @@ users 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]], and comment pages can be matched -using a special `postcomment()` [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]. +`\[[!_comment]]` [[ikiwiki/directive]]. There are some global options for the setup file: -* `comments_shown_pagespec`: pages where comments will be displayed inline, - e.g. `blog/*` or `!*/discussion`. -* `comments_open_pagespec`: pages where new comments can be posted, e.g. - `blog/* and created_after(close_old_comments)` or `!*/discussion` +* `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 @@ -38,15 +41,3 @@ 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 - -Known issues: - -* Needs code review -* The access control via postcomment() is rather strange (see [[discussion]] for more details) -* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which - should probably be shared -* Joey doesn't think it should necessarily use internal pages (see [[discussion]]) -* Previews always say "unknown IP address" -* Add `COMMENTOPENID`: the authenticated/verified user name, if and only if it was an OpenID -* The default template should have a (?) icon next to unauthenticated users (with the IP address - as title) and an OpenID icon next to OpenIDs