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Disclaimer popups before sending an email or submitting a comment using simple jQuery in WordPress

| March 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

Several of our clients requested that we add popup disclaimers before someone sends an email to the site admin or before they submit a comment. Here's a screenshot of what we're going to do:

Case 1: Add a Contact Us link to the navigation menu that triggers a ... View Post

How to Re-enable and Allow Comments in Older Posts in WordPress

| November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

We had a client come to us and ask how to re-enable comments on older posts. I started searching around and found 2 ways of allowing comments on many posts at once.

1. Use the built-in WordPress Bulk Edit feature.

This feature was introduced back in version 2.7 but only now did I fall in

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Get to know every line of your comments.php WordPress theme file

| June 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
There is one WordPress theme file that I almost never touch when working on a theme: comments.php. I usually style WordPress comments via the CSS sheet, and that's that. Well, there's a lot you can do to customize and extend WordPress comments if you just know how. ... View Post

Using WordPress comments as a contact form

| February 4, 2008 | 3 Comments
Justin Tadlock has posted a way to use built-in WordPress comments in lieu of a contact form. Basically, you replace your theme's current comments.php file with the one that Justin offers for downloading that checks if a page is called "Contact." If it is, the ... View Post

Allow users to use OpenID to interact with your blog with OpenID WordPress plugin

| January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
The WordPress OpenID plugin lets visitors to a Wordpress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID Identity. Says it's designed for WP 2.0.3 to 2.1, but may work with 2.3. Wordpress OpenID Plugin View Post

Make your WordPress comments more user friendly with a mini TinyMCE editor

| December 30, 2007 | 16 Comments
WordPress comment boxes tend to be dry, text editors. That's kind of ok for people who know HTML, but even I get frustrated when I want to add a link in someone else's comment box. Here's a really easy and pretty solution: Advanced TinyMCE Editor. This editor add a simple yet useful toolbar ... View Post

Using PHP to alternate background colors for comments or posts in WordPress

| December 26, 2007 | 23 Comments
Some blogs have alternating background colors for their comments and posts, i.e. a green background for every even comment and post, and a grey background for every odd comment and post. How do they do that? Alternating Comments Styles To alternate comments, add the following code to your comments.php template file, under where it says <?php ... View Post

Giving each comment its own link in WordPress

| November 28, 2007 | 4 Comments
Being able to link to specific comments in your WordPress blog could be very handy. Good comments can really add a lot of value to a blog, and you or others may want to refer to specific comments in your posts by linking to them. In general, comments can be linked to, but to ... View Post

Recent Comments code snippet

| November 9, 2007 | 37 Comments
This code is from the Blog Oh Blog theme, and displays recent comments in the sidebar without the need for a plugin: <?php global $wpdb; $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password ... View Post

Akisment Auntie Spam picks up where Akismet leaves off

| September 18, 2007 | 3 Comments
Akismet brilliantly catches most comment spam and saves it in the Akismet section of our WordPress blogs. But if we don't check Akismet regularly, we can find ourselves hundreds, if not thousands, of comment spam waiting for review. Since Akismet sometimes mistakenly identifies legitimate comments as spam, we need to ... View Post
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