[wp-hackers] Threaded Comments

[Mark Shields]

Oh, I'm talking about Brian's Threaded Comments
(http://meidell.dk/archives/2004/09/04/nested-comments/) which does
require replacing those files.  What other threaded comments are you
speaking of?


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:18:28 -0400, Owen Winkler
<ringmaster at midnightcircus.com> wrote:
> Mark Jaquith wrote:
> 
> > I'm fairly certain that it can be done with a plugin + replacement
> > wp-comments.php file.  Now that we can hook in to comment_post in
> > wp-comments-post.php, that portion can be handled with a plugin.
> > Check for the "parent comment" value, and if set, update the comment
> > in the DB with that info.  Then the new wp-comments.php file can take
> > care of making sense of the parent > child relationships and display
> > the comments accordingly.
> 
> Just thinking out loud...  You're not replacing the wp-comments.php
> file, right?  You're creating a new file and including that from a
> function like threaded_comments_template(), which would be called
> instead of comments_template().  Because then you'd only need to change
> one line in the template to get the threads, and upgrades wouldn't
> overwrite your changes.  Of course, this would only apply to 1.3.
> 
> A cheesy way to do it with javascript would be to add script output from
> the plugin to rearrange the parent containers of comments so that they
> display as threaded.  Then you wouldn't need to do anything but activate
> the plugin.  But that's using javascript on the post pages, which I
> don't even like that much.
> 
> Also, wp-comments.php comes along for the ride in a theme as
> comments.php.  So you could conceivably create a theme to output
> threaded comments, as long as the funcions to capture the parent data
> could be built into the theme or combined with a plugin somehow.
> 
> It would be kind of neat to be able to package plugins with a theme if
> they are required.
> 
> Maybe you've all thought of this already.
> 
> Owen
> 
> 
> 
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