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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn | 27 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn index 2e501995f..3e6dcfd76 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/comments.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!template id=plugin name=postcomment author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] +[[!template id=plugin name=comments author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] [[!tag type/useful]] This plugin adds "blog-style" comments. The intention is that on a non-wiki site @@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ only by direct committers. Currently, comments are always in [[ikiwiki/markdown] >> admins (~= git committers) and possibly the commenter (who we can't check for >> at the moment anyway, I don't think?) to be able to edit comments - I think >> user expectations for something that looks like ordinary blog comments are ->> likely to include "others can't put words into my mouth". --[[smcv]] +>> likely to include "others can't put words into my mouth". +>> +>> My other objection to using a namespace is that I'm not particularly happy about +>> plugins consuming arbitrary pieces of the wiki namespace - /discussion is bad +>> enough already. Indeed, this very page would accidentally get matched by rules +>> aiming to control comment-posting... :-) --[[smcv]] Directives and raw HTML are filtered out by default, and comment authorship should hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users. @@ -37,10 +42,14 @@ hopefully be unforgeable by CGI users. >> I was initially wary of allowing meta directives, but I think those are OK, as long >> as the comment template puts the \[[!meta author]] at the *end*. Disallowing >> directives is more a way to avoid commenters causing expensive processing than ->> anything else, at this point. --[[smcv]] +>> anything else, at this point. +>> +>> I've rebased the plugin on master and made it sanitize individual posts' content now. +>> Disallowing HTML is still optional and on by default, but it's trivial to remove +>> the code. --[[smcv]] When comments have been enabled generally, you still need to mark which pages -can have comments, by including the `\[[!postcomment]]` directive in them. By default, +can have comments, by including the `\[[!comments]]` directive in them. By default, this directive expands to a "post a comment" link plus an `\[[!inline]]` with the comments. @@ -72,7 +81,10 @@ to allow non-admin users to comment on pages, but not edit anything. You can als to allow anonymous comments (the IP address will be used as the "author"). -Optional parameters to the postcomment directive: +> This is still called postcomment, although I've renamed the rest of the plugin +> to comments as suggested on #ikiwiki --[[smcv]] + +Optional parameters to the comments directive: * `commit=no`: by default, comments are committed to version control. Use this to disable commits. @@ -86,7 +98,8 @@ Optional parameters to the postcomment directive: * `atom`, `rss`, `feeds`, `feedshow`, `timeformat`, `feedonly`: the same as for [[plugins/inline]] This plugin aims to close the [[todo]] item "[[todo/supporting_comments_via_disussion_pages]]", -and is currently available from [[smcv]]'s git repository on git.pseudorandom.co.uk. +and is currently available from [[smcv]]'s git repository on git.pseudorandom.co.uk (it's the +`postcomment` branch). Known issues: @@ -94,7 +107,7 @@ Known issues: * The access control via postcomment() is rather strange * There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which should probably be shared -* If the postcomment directive is removed from a page, comments can still be made on that page, +* If the comments directive is removed from a page, comments can still be made on that page, and will be committed but not displayed; to disable comments properly you have to set the closed="yes" directive parameter (and refresh the wiki), *then* remove the directive if desired |