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By: filosofo

filosofo — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:50:38 +0000

I’ve posted my comments preview plugin here. And I’m now using it on this blog. I think I’ve met most of the criteria I listed above, but I’m a little uncertain about its being easy to use by novices.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:35:49 +0000

It’s good that you are working on a comment preview plugin of your own. The criteria you listed in the article are what I was looking for too. At present there doesn’t seem to be much of a choice. I looked at Laughing Lizard’s Comment Preview for WordPress 1.2, but without downloading it I don’t know if it would work with WordPress 1.5, so it’s not quite suitable for novices. ComPreVal is good, but I had to make changes to make it work with the Classic Theme.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:02:36 +0000

I figured out the problem. The preview hack keeps the character entities as is, but when they’re put into the value of the textarea, they get rendered as tag delimiters, so when the comment’s finally submitted, they’re no longer character entities.

Anyways, it’s helpful that this problem happened, because I’m working on a previews plugin based on this hack, and now I know to avoid that problem. Thanks.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:15:16 +0000

I used character entities for � and �, but it looks like they got converted into tag delimiters. ComPreVal doesn’t do that. I looked at the page source and noticed that your comment script inserted ‘nofollow’ twice in the anchor tag:

�a � rel=’nofollow nofollow’�

I haven’t gone live with my blog yet. I’m new to WordPress and I’m still trying out plugins and themes on my local PC and reading online articles to pick up tips. I’m using the WAMP Server for Windows so that I can run Apache/MySQL/PHP as “localhost”:

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

In the paragraph that got clipped I said ComPreVal is designed to work with the WordPress default theme (Kubrick). I had to make a few small changes to adapt it for the WP “Classic” theme.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:26:01 +0000

Your preview script seems to have removed the last paragraph from my comment. It was displayed OK on the preview page before I clicked �Post�.

Hmmm. I’ll have to look into that. Maybe a special character confused the program?

By: Kerim

Kerim — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:14:10 +0000

Your preview script seems to have removed the last paragraph from my comment. It was displayed OK on the preview page before I clicked “Post”.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:09:05 +0000

I’m also puzzled as to why WP doesn’t have a comment preview option. At the time of writing, it isn’t even on the list of suggested features for the next version of WP:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_1.6

I chose ComPreVal. You can disable the XHTML validation function if you want to. Scroll to the end of the “safehtml.php” file and comment out one line and add “return true;”…

function isOK() {

// return count($this->errors)