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[[!template id=plugin name=comments author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]
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[[!tag type/useful]]
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This plugin adds "blog-style" comments. Unlike the wiki-style freeform
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Discussion pages, these comments are posted by a simple form, cannot later
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be edited, and rss/atom feeds are provided of each page's comments.
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When using this plugin, you should also enable [[htmlscrubber]] and either
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[[htmltidy]] or [[htmlbalance]]. Directives are filtered out by default, to
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avoid commenters slowing down the wiki by causing time-consuming
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processing. As long as the recommended plugins are enabled, comment
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authorship should hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users.
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The intention is that on a non-wiki site (like a blog) you can lock all
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pages for admin-only access, then allow otherwise unprivileged (or perhaps
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even anonymous) users to comment on posts. See the documentation of the
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[[lockedit]] and [[anonok]] pages for details on locking down a wiki so
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users can only post comments.
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Individual comments are stored as internal-use pages named something like
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`page/comment_1`, `page/comment_2`, etc. These pages internally use a
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`\[[!_comment]]` [[ikiwiki/directive]].
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There are some global options for the setup file:
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* `comments_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where comments are
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allowed. The default is not to allow comments on any pages. To allow
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comments to all posts to a blog, you could use
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`blog/posts/* and !*/Discussion`.
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* `comments_closed_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where
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posting of new comments is closed, but any existing comments will still
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be displayed. Often you will list a set of individual pages here.
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For example: `blog/controversial or blog/flamewar`
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* `comments_pagename`: if this is e.g. `comment_` (the default), then
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comment pages will be named something like `page/comment_12`
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* `comments_allowdirectives`: if true (default false), comments may
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contain IkiWiki [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]]
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* `comments_commit`: if true (default true), comments will be committed to
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the version control system
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* `comments_allowauthor`: if true (default false), anonymous commenters may
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specify a name for themselves, and the \[[!meta author]] and
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\[[!meta authorurl]] directives will not be overridden by the comments
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plugin
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## comment moderation
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If you enable the [[blogspam]] plugin, comments that appear spammy will be
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held for moderation. Wiki admins can access the comment moderation queue
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via a button on their Preferences page.
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The comments are stored in `.ikiwiki/comments_pending/`, and can be
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deleted, or moved into the wiki's srcdir to be posted.
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