Comments, please

Excerpt: Testing Adam Kalsey's new plugin to intermingle comments and TrackBacks

Looks like maybe the individual entry page didn’t rebuild: main page comment count shows one (I assume from my ping), but I don’t see it here.

Or, rather, I didn’t until after I left a local comment that rebuilt the individual entry page.

Excerpt: As long as I'm messing around with trackback and the websites of innocents, I may as well add one more

Okey-dokey, as requested a comment. No commentary, just a comment.

Excerpt: How to hack Movable Type to rebuild individual entry archives when a TrackBack ping is received.

Release now! Release now!

(He said, only so that he could rebuild the page to show his previous ping…)

(Also: don’t forget to put the plugin in the comment preview template.)

There’s several other places I need to change the comments code over to take advantage of this plugin. The preview and the comments XML feed both come to mind.

I’ve thought about configuring MT to rebuild the individual archives when someone sends a TrackBack ping, but my individual entry pages do a lot of processing and it take too long to rebuild. Pretty much every ping would time out.

Maybe I can set MT up to fork a rebuild process when someone pings.

SimpleComments is out. See http://kalsey.com/2003/02/simplecomments/

Excerpt: Simple Comments = Simply beautiful. Thank you. Thanks Phil for the link. Thanks Adam for the work.

You say, that you don’t have to learn any new MTtags. Seems to me there’s a lot of tags to be implemented???

There’s a container tag that replaces MTComments and a tag that replaces MTEntryCommentCount. There’s two conditional tags that you can use if you want, but you could create a tmplate without them if you wanted. I’m sorry that seems like a lot of tags to you.

The idea is that you don’t need to learn a new way of displaying comments. Just put your existing comment and TrackBack templates inside the new container tag, and you’re set.

Testing Adam’s comments.