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  • June 20, 2013 at 4:20 am #2920
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    Hi I have some issues/questions on blog comments.

    How could we have the comments in reverse order (currently fist one on top, I would like the last one on top like in the forum or docs comments)?

    Is there a way to get long comments to be truncated/collapsed at display with a read more link so it doesn’t cram pages?Thanks.

    June 26, 2013 at 11:36 am #2994
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    Ping! 🙂

    June 26, 2013 at 3:25 pm #2997
    Ray
    Keymaster

    This is a WordPress setting.

    Try logging into the WP dashboard and navigate to “Settings > Discussion”.

    Next, find the “Comments should be displayed with the…” option and select “newer”.

    June 26, 2013 at 3:41 pm #2998
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    Good @r-a-y order solved! Thanks!

    How about collapse of long posts?

    July 2, 2013 at 8:52 am #3046
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    Ping! Is there a way to collapse /truncate long comments on blogs? i.e.so that only a few lines appear and then can be expanded  by clicking a more link?

    July 2, 2013 at 9:04 am #3048
    Matthew K Gold
    Moderator

    Hi Helene — have you tried searching the WP plugin repo for comment-related plugins?

    July 2, 2013 at 9:23 am #3052
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    Hi @mkgold. I tried, but can’t find anything relevant -most revolve around facebook and social. Not sure how to formulate the query…

    Looking for the same thing for forum posts as well…

    July 2, 2013 at 9:30 am #3053
    MySchoolStuff
    Participant

    Hi Helene

    Please have a look at http://disqus.com/ I’ve seen it on a few really good websites that rely on a robust comments system, but have not been brave enough to try it myself.

    July 2, 2013 at 9:31 am #3054
    Matthew K Gold
    Moderator

    Hi Helene —

    Try searching for “comment excerpt” — some of the results there might give
    you what you need.

    Also try searching the BbPress plugin repo for forum related plugins –
    http://bbpress.org/plugins/

    Best,

    Matt

    July 4, 2013 at 1:56 am #3070
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    Thanks @mkgold. Have you heard of http://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/ is it compatible with groups?

    July 4, 2013 at 9:24 am #3084
    Matthew K Gold
    Moderator

    Hi Helene —

    I haven’t experimented with it. Perhaps give it a try and report back.
    Considering that you are looking to do a lot of custom work to your CBOX
    install, you might consider setting up a development site so that you can
    experiment with new plugins to test out their compatibility before
    implementing on your production website.

    Best,

    Matt

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