Comments on: Filosofo Comments Preview Templates

By: filosofo

filosofo — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:16:11 +0000

The plugin tries to guess what would be a good template for the comments preview by reading in parts of the header and footer of the current theme. Sometimes it doesn’t guess as well as others. If you don’t like the way it looks or if it’s not working at all, you can adjust it in the big text box under Options > Comments Preview > Preview Page Templates. One possibility is to start by pasting in the template for the classic theme and adjusting it from there.

By: harry

harry — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:52:22 +0000

well I think I got us a clue.
I switched the theme to the classic and then tried the comments and bingo – there is your preview code as it should be.

So, here is a question: Does your plugin expect the themes in be in a known exact format? I have edited the dark-maple theme to fit my needs – so it isnt the same as fresh out of the zip file. Is there a chance I disburbed an exact sequence of commands or html tags that you code needs to find?

thanks
Harry

By: Harry A

Harry A — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:14:20 +0000

there is no error. The plugin pages at the admin appear to be working ok. There just isnt any changes in my blog.

I thought these bits of code would be either inserted into or completely replace one or more of my files. And I thought if you told me which files and if they replace or only insert, then I could do this manually and see what happens.

but there isnt any blog mistakes or errors. Just a no action/no changes result.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:40:55 +0000

No files are edited. The text you see in the text boxes under Options > Comments Preview > Preview Page Templates is stored in the database. When you preview a comment, the plugin renders that text as though it were a template file.

Could you describe the error that you’re getting?

By: Harry A

Harry A — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:18:22 +0000

well that might be how it is suppose to happen but thats not what is occuring. Perhaps its a file rights issue and your plugin is not getting the chance to put that text into my files?

So, can you tell us what files these templates are meant to either replace or be added into ?

By: filosofo

filosofo — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:34:52 +0000

You don’t have to edit any files. Just paste the templates in the first big text box in the latter link you mention (under Options > Comments Preview > Preview Page Templates).

Actually, for most themes, the default should work fine, so you may not need to paste anything.

By: Harry A

Harry A — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:23:44 +0000

at the risk of embarrassing myself as a complete newbie, I dont get WHERE I am suppose to copy and paste the template text!
I mean the text that the
” wp-admin/options-general.php?page=filosofo-comments-preview.php ” page or the
” wp-admin/options-general.php?page=filosofo-comments-preview.php&subpage=2 “
page generates.

I dont know what file(s) to edit and where to past these texts

This looks like a killer plugin and I’d love to have it on my site.

thanks
Harry A.

By: Martin Ralya

Martin Ralya — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:41:10 +0000

These rock! Thank you so much for taking the time to put together these pre-packaged themes — as well as the plugin itself, which is excellent!