X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/848ff1bf5e218c57cc738a85ed02d7e1396c1d22..3d6cb667aafa175819ffcec86930eef3621c8b04:/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn index c13a6daa6..48b6c6ae7 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[!template id=plugin name=comments author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] -[[!tag type/useful]] +[[!tag type/web]] This plugin adds "blog-style" comments. Unlike the wiki-style freeform Discussion pages, these comments are posted by a simple form, cannot later @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ 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 -[[lockedit]] and [[anonok]] pages for details on locking down a wiki so -users can only post comments. +[[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]]` [[ikiwiki/directive]]. +[[comment_directive|ikiwiki/directive/comment]]. There are some global options for the setup file: @@ -45,8 +45,11 @@ There are some global options for the setup file: ## comment moderation If you enable the [[blogspam]] plugin, comments that appear spammy will be -held for moderation. Wiki admins can access the comment moderation queue +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. -The comments are stored in `.ikiwiki/comments_pending/`, and can be -deleted, or moved into the wiki's srcdir to be posted. +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.