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