Comments on: forum-like blog comments

By: Robert Neuschul

Robert Neuschul — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:16:56 +0000

Novak

Your approach isn’t a bad one, but as far as I’m concerned the WP Thread Comment plugin you mention doesn’t really deliver threading in a user-friendly or useful manner. By the time a thread is deeply nested the quotes of quotes of yet more quotes have entirely obscured the thread itself; it becomes impossible to follow.

For a thread to be usable and trackable to users requires an extension of your “grid” approach, using a scrollable split-screen view – with “your” list of threads in the upper display and the body content in a lower scrollable screen, the upper screen thread display should then be expandable/collapsable at any node on the tree.

With a suitable next/last and begining/end [of thread] plugin and a quote plugin users can then view and respond to the thread root or to any other reply in the thread with great facility.

If you’re interested, mail me off list: I can show you screen shots of a fully threaded mail/news reader which I helped to design and implement in the early 90s which does exactly this.

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By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:56:00 +0000

Here’s the link with the BlogActivityShortcode plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogactivityshortcode/

By: Gerry

Gerry — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:09:07 +0000

Hi Novak – just wondering about the status of your plugin. I did a quick search (wasn’t totally sure what to search for) in the WordPress plugin directory and didn’t find anything.

By: supernovak

supernovak — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:49:27 +0000

Hi Eric, I will keep you posted. We should have it in WP codex soon.

By: eric feinblatt

eric feinblatt — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:01:27 +0000

Learned about the plug-in from D’Arcy’s site. Would love to beta test it. Just what we need

By: Weltschmerz · please comment to test comments

Weltschmerz · please comment to test comments — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:05:18 +0000

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By: supernovak

supernovak — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:27:37 +0000

Thanks D’Arcy,
Thanks for sending links to WP-Stats – we are looking into what to use, and this seems like a really good fit.
Your blogs’ system is just fantastic, great model for us!

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:56:33 +0000

Sounds great, Novak! I’d love to play with the plugin, and help work on it if needed.

We’re using the WP-Stats plugin to do something similar, but it’s certainly not as fully developed as this idea.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats/

http://ucalgaryblogs.ca/2008/10/22/new-feature-content-stats-plugin/