Il Filosofo

The Filosofo Comments Preview Plugin allows you to customize the look of the previewed comment's page in your WordPress administrative control panel. By default, it should look okay with the Classic and Default themes that ship with WordPress, but it may need adjustment with other themes.

On this page I'm assembling previewed comment templates for popular themes. Just find your theme on this page, then copy and paste it into your template.

If there are themes you'd like to see included on this list or if you've customized a template that you'd like to share with others, please leave a comment below or email me at if.website (located at) gmail (dot) com .

The Templates

Blue Horizon

<?php include_once('../themes/bluehorizon/gravatar.php');
get_header(); ?><div id="static"><div class="post">
<h2 id="comments">Your Comment Preview on %previewed_post_title:</h2>
%previewed_comment<p>by %previewed_author_link</p>
<hr />
<form action="%previewed_form_submit_path" method="post" id="commentform">
<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl');  ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity;?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout"  title="<?php _e('Log out of this account') ?>">Logout »</a></p>
<?php else : ?>
<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="textarea" value="%previewed_author" size="28" tabindex="1" />
<label for="author"><?php _e('Name'); ?></label></p>
<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="%previewed_email" size="28" tabindex="2" />
<label for="email"><?php _e('E-mail'); ?></label></p>
<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="%previewed_url" size="28" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><?php _e('<acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym>'); ?></label></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<p><label for="comment"><?php _e('Your Comment'); ?></label><br />
<textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="10" tabindex="4">%previewed_raw_comment</textarea></p>
<p>%previewed_buttons</p>
</form>
%previewed_prev_comments</div></div><?php get_footer(); ?>

Classic

<?php get_header(); ?>

<h2 id="comments">Your Comment Preview:</h2>

%previewed_comment<p>by %previewed_author_link</p>

<hr />
  <form action="%previewed_form_submit_path" method="post" id="commentform">
  <?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
  <p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="<?php _e('Log out of this account') ?>">Logout &raquo;</a></p>
  <?php else : ?>
  <p>
  <input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="textarea" value="%previewed_author" size="28" tabindex="1" />
  <label for="author"><?php _e('Name'); ?></label>
  </p>
  <p>
  <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="%previewed_email" size="28" tabindex="2" />
  <label for="email"><?php _e('E-mail'); ?></label>
  </p>
  <p>
  <input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="%previewed_url" size="28" tabindex="3" />
  <label for="url"><?php _e('<acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym>'); ?></label>
  </p>
  <?php endif; ?>
  <p>
  <label for="comment"><?php _e('Your Comment'); ?></label>
  <br />
  <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="10" tabindex="4">%previewed_raw_comment</textarea>
  </p>
  <p>
   %previewed_buttons
  </p>
  </form>
      %previewed_prev_comments
  </div>  
  <?php get_footer();

Connections

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/1">
	<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
	<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> 
	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
		@import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
	</style>	
	<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
    <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
	<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

<body>
<div id="rap">
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="main">
<div id="content">
<div class="post">
<h2 id="comments">Your Comment Preview:</h2>

%previewed_comment<p>by %previewed_author_link</p>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Default

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content" class="widecolumn">
<h2 id="comments">Your Comment Preview:</h2>

%previewed_comment<p>by %previewed_author_link</p>

Tarski

<?php get_header(); ?><div id="primary"><h2>Your Comment Preview on %previewed_post_title:</h2>
%previewed_comment<p>by %previewed_author_link</p></div>
<hr />

<div id="respond">
<form action="%previewed_form_submit_path" method="post" id="commentform"><fieldset>
<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl');  ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity;?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout"  title="<?php _e('Log out of this account') ?>">Logout »</a></p>
<?php else : ?>
<div id="info-input"><label for="author"><?php _e('Name'); ?><input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="textarea" value="%previewed_author" size="28" tabindex="1" />
</label>
<label for="email"><?php _e('E-mail'); ?><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="%previewed_email" size="28" tabindex="2" />
</label>
<label for="url"><?php _e('<acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym>'); ?><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="%previewed_url" size="28" tabindex="3" />
</label></div>
<?php endif; ?>
<div id="comment-input"><label for="comment"><?php _e('Your Comment'); ?></label><br />
<textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="10" tabindex="4">%previewed_raw_comment</textarea>
%previewed_buttons
</div></fieldset></form>
</div>
<div id="comments">
%previewed_prev_comments</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

8 Comments

Martin Ralya commented on September 9, 2005 at 1:41 am | Permalink

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!
Harry A commented on March 22, 2006 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

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.
filosofo commented on March 22, 2006 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

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.
Harry A commented on March 22, 2006 at 8:18 pm | Permalink

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 ?
filosofo commented on March 22, 2006 at 8:40 pm | Permalink

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?
Harry A commented on March 22, 2006 at 9:14 pm | Permalink

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.
harry commented on March 23, 2006 at 12:52 am | Permalink

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
filosofo commented on March 23, 2006 at 8:16 am | Permalink

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.

Filosofo Comments Preview Templates

The Templates

Blue Horizon

Classic

Connections

Default

Tarski

8 Comments

Post a Comment

Recent Comments