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shotgunflat
Posted: 16 May 2008 02:21 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi everyone. I’m really new to EE, but completely love it. I’ve figured out how to effectively use EE as a CMS, but now I am in need of really expanding into its uses as a blogging tool.

My challenge is that I can’t seem to get commenting to work at all.  I started from scratch with the template, and I’m clueless now as to how to put commenting in as part of a blog entry.  Here is my markup:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="journal"}

        <h1>{title}</h1>
        {body}
                <span class="technologies">posted by <strong><a href="mailto:{email}">{author}</a></strong>
on {entry_date format="%D, %M %d, %Y"} <a href="/journal/{url_title}">Permalink</a></span>
        

{/exp:weblog:entries}

My question is, how the heck do I get this to allow for people to comment on said “journal” entry? Thank you so very much for your help!
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Ingmar Greil
Posted: 16 May 2008 02:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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shotgunflat, welcome to the forums. Have you taken a look at the Getting started guide and the video tutorials? In your case simply taking a look at some of our templates should help you. They all support blog-style comments out of the box.

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Posted: 21 May 2008 03:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Anyone interested in rolling up their sleeves and giving me a hand?
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Posted: 21 May 2008 03:12 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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I can only repeat my advice to take a look at the default templates. They implement comments in a clear and straight way, and are easy to customize.

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shotgunflat
Posted: 21 May 2008 03:17 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Thanks—I’m running into some issues with domain.com/comments/entry not pulling weblog data.  I’m really stuck.
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Sophie Dennis
Posted: 21 May 2008 03:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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By coincidence I’ve just started building comments into my EE site today (site’s been live for a while, but we’re now adding member stuff and comments etc…). Turns out to be dead easy.

The really dumb gotcha I hit was that I hadn’t got the comments module installed, so I was adding comment tags but nothing was happening.

Once I’d got that sorted I just dropped in some quick tags from the Comment Module Tags page in the docs, and I was posting and displaying basic comments in about 2 minutes. Just copy the example code to get started. They go outside your {exp:weblog} tags, btw,  which seems a bit counter-intuitive at first.
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Posted: 21 May 2008 03:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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shotgunflat - 21 May 2008 03:17 PM

Thanks—I’m running into some issues with domain.com/comments/entry not pulling weblog data.  I’m really stuck.

As Ingmar, the default templates, while they my not look as “pretty” as you want them to, contain a vast wealth of knowledge to learn Expression Engine.

So, in the site/comments template, we see the following stripped down code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" limit="1" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
    {title}
    {summary}
    {body}
    Posted by {url_or_email_as_author} on {entry_date format='%m/%d'} at {entry_date format='%h:%i %A'}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

{exp:comment:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" limit="25"}
    {comment}
    Posted by {url_or_email_as_author}  &nbsp;on&nbsp; {comment_date format='%m/%d'} &nbsp;at&nbsp; {comment_date format='%h:%i %A'}
    {paginate}
        <div class="paginate">
            <span class="pagecount">Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages</span>  {pagination_links}
        </div>
    {/paginate}
{/exp:comment:entries}

You get to this from the /site/index template from the following code around line 78

{if allow_comments}
({comment_total}) <a href="{url_title_path="{my_template_group}/comments"}">Comments</a> &#8226;
{/if}

So if we assume that the template group is called “site,” and the url_title of the entry is called “my_entry,” you will be able to see the full article with comments at the following url: http://www.example.com/index.php/site/comments/my_entry

I did not include the add a comment form code in there, and you also need to look at the comment preview template as well.

I hope that helps,

-greg

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shotgunflat
Posted: 21 May 2008 04:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Thanks—I’m going to take a break and give this stuff a whirl.
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Posted: 22 May 2008 03:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Just to let you know, adding dynamic=“off” fixed the issue.

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