Comments on: Making WordPress comments behave like a threaded forum

By: Robert Neuschul

Robert Neuschul — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:01:02 +0000

I’d be most interested.

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Forum-like display of blog comments 61, revisited — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:30:55 +0000

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By: novak

novak — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:33:54 +0000

Hi Carolann,
What exactly you mean by assigning independent projects?
Perhaps using categories could be the solutions for this?

By: Carolann

Carolann — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:16:08 +0000

Thanks Brian for being on top of this. I don’t find the wordpress interface difficult, but I know my classmates are frustrated. This looks like a great solution to discussions.

On another note the other issue with WordPress is that professors assign independent projects, and it is not possible to create them in the same WordPress blog, so we end up with sites to navigate to all over the place. If there were a way to keep everything within the WordPress interface it would be much easier. Perhaps it shouldn’t be an option…

By: Novak

Novak — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:44:42 +0000

Thanks for posting this Brian!
It took me longer to write the post about it
(http://blogs.ubc.ca/novak/2008/10/29/forum-like-blog-comments/) than for Enej to actually create it!
We will put it up very soon and also check it in @ wordpress codex.

By: Gerry Paille

Gerry Paille — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:02:26 +0000

I don’t know enough to collaborate on this, but I can certainly test on my development site and in the two course sites we will be running starting in January.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:20:37 +0000

I certainly like that interface, in that you can see which post was commented on most recently. One of the problems that I always feel as a blog visitor is that I don’t know where comments have been posted. As the blog owner, I do, but I don’t as the visitor. It’s one of the reasons I’m always sceptical of group blogs – and where i feel that discussion boards (even those as clunky as Vista’s!) win – it’s easy to see what’s new if you didn’t actually create the first post.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:17:20 +0000

I haven’t seen anything like this, and we at UMW Blogs would certainly be game for testing. It is an excellent strategy for re-thinking the blog for multiple uses, all hail UBC and Novak yet again!

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:26:28 +0000

um… HELL yeah sign me up…