Question: How do you insert line breaks into a comment without causing it to post?
You can't just hit enter?
2025-12-06 23:35:40
This is great, as an add-on not as a replacement, which is what I assume was the intention? Does this now happen automatically, or does someone have to do things to it intermittently?
It's a very non-traditional add-on, intended to let someone get a feel for what's going on. State of the Discussion, not the discussion itself. CK MacLeod, the original author, figured out how to organize a lot of information into a little space. To be honest, despite the links back to the real pages, it tempts someone to jump straight to comments w/o reading the post proper first. That's a potentially serious downside. There's a widget version of the code that might be better, added at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar.
Every invocation generates a new page that's up-to-date. Speaking broadly, it doesn't require any attention except sometimes following a WordPress or PHP update. I got involved at the other site where it runs after cumulative updates had broken it completely.
2025-12-06 20:43:53
Thanks, Charles. As I've mentioned, I inherited this when it was orphaned by the original author. I've kept it running, but have never been through it systematically to clean up. I know there's a bunch of CSS that only applies when the widget (as opposed to page) version is run, and I suspect there's some CSS that's just dead. Once I get past the holidays, I'll apply these corrections and I also intend to address lj's complaint about the comment excerpts.
ETA: And it doesn't come anywhere close to the current practices for things that ought to be included in plugins.
2025-12-06 13:55:28
And just an observation about italics.
The WordPress built-in get_comment_excerpt() strips out formatting tags. The SotD code I inherited has its own comment excerpt code, and also strips out formatting tags unless the excerpt is the entire comment. That's what happened in the middle comment in your picture.
Question: How do you insert line breaks into a comment without causing it to post?
You can't just hit enter?
This is great, as an add-on not as a replacement, which is what I assume was the intention? Does this now happen automatically, or does someone have to do things to it intermittently?
It's a very non-traditional add-on, intended to let someone get a feel for what's going on. State of the Discussion, not the discussion itself. CK MacLeod, the original author, figured out how to organize a lot of information into a little space. To be honest, despite the links back to the real pages, it tempts someone to jump straight to comments w/o reading the post proper first. That's a potentially serious downside. There's a widget version of the code that might be better, added at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar.
Every invocation generates a new page that's up-to-date. Speaking broadly, it doesn't require any attention except sometimes following a WordPress or PHP update. I got involved at the other site where it runs after cumulative updates had broken it completely.
Thanks, Charles. As I've mentioned, I inherited this when it was orphaned by the original author. I've kept it running, but have never been through it systematically to clean up. I know there's a bunch of CSS that only applies when the widget (as opposed to page) version is run, and I suspect there's some CSS that's just dead. Once I get past the holidays, I'll apply these corrections and I also intend to address lj's complaint about the comment excerpts.
ETA: And it doesn't come anywhere close to the current practices for things that ought to be included in plugins.
And just an observation about italics.
The WordPress built-in get_comment_excerpt() strips out formatting tags. The SotD code I inherited has its own comment excerpt code, and also strips out formatting tags unless the excerpt is the entire comment. That's what happened in the middle comment in your picture.