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modding comment input field lengths in textpattern/publish/comment.php

A simple one-line addition to both rss.php and atom.php will allow for displaying a link to comments inside the body of your website’s feeds:

Have comments welcome back visitors instead of redisplaying entire comment form for regular visitors.

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to remove the comments preview function from Textpattern. It involves publish/comments.php in your Textpattern folder, and I would advise backing up the file before you make any changes.

This is a dead easy hack to Textpattern that will let you have your comments anywhere on an article page—not just tacked onto the bottom of the text like the default behaviour.

In TextPattern when you click on an article and are presented with the ability to comment, the set of input boxes, text areas, and other items are generated by a simple “form” called comment_form. The idea is that …

A small change in comment.php to highlight the author in comments.

Comment spam is annoying and happens more for older posts, but disabling commenting on older…

From the Gravatar implementor’s guide, here’s how to get Gravatars working on your site. (A…

The basic implementation instructions don’t mention how to not display the gravatar for those commenters…

Purpose of this hack: Change the recorded comments to display as <div>’s rather than <li>’s,…