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[edit] CommentPress
- Style sheet highlights wrong paragraph when linking deep into a page? e.g. the link to Action 19 (writetoreply.org/digitalbritain/2009/01/29/section-42-driving-universal-connectivity-take-up/#22) actually highlights the next paragraph, Action 20?
- Documentation for the theme http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/development/ I've contacted Future of the Book, the theme creators. CommentPress 2.0 is being worked on and should be ready for use in Feb 09.
- Plugins often do not work with CommentPress.
- Comments and comment forms are only visible to browsers that support Javascript. They need to be visible to everyone to meet WCAG-1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ - one possible method is to show them all by default, then hide them with an onload.
- CommentPress v2.0 will be released very soon. It is structured as a plugin with optional theme. See this example: http://www.commentpress.net/?p=58 With jscript turned off in my browser, commenting by section is possible but not by paragraph. Functionality is therefore reduced (i.e. no paragraph level comments), but not entirely removed. Is this acceptable? (note that at time of writing, there's a bug in CP 2.0 that breaks paragraph level comments for everyone, but you can still see how it works in principle).
[edit] WordPressMU
- There's a bug in WP which is affecting the end of posts that have links, such as mailto: and http://. Will contact the WPMU forums.
- We need better feedback on comments caught by spam filter.
[edit] Plugins
- There's a bug in the OpenID plugin which doesn't allow you to just accept the openid. We're currently forced to ask people for their name and email address. Also, it has a problem saving the settings, complaining about the user not having permission to edit options.php As a workaround, I edited /options.php directly.
[edit] iPhone Support
We use wptouch for iPhone/iPod Touch support. To get theme switching to work, I had to add <?php wp_footer(); ?> in the commentpress footer.php. I also added support for wp-super-cache, as outlined here.
The TOC does not render as an iPhone page. Not sure why. This could be to our advantage as the sections are posted in reverse order.
When viewing a document on CommentPress, the oldest post made is the first to show in the TOC. wptouch doesn't handle this as it's a commentpress 'feature'. So readers will have to navigate their way to the oldest post to read from the beginning of the document. Navigating to 'Home' takes the reader out of the iPhone theme and back to Commentpress TOC where they can navigate from their desired section.
[edit] FeedBurnerFeedSmith
This plugin grabs the 'tag' feed so that you can't isolate the tag feed for other purposes. I found a fix and replaced line 110 in the plugin with:
if (is_feed() && $feed != 'comments-rss2' && !is_single() && !is_tag() && $wp->query_vars['category_name'] == && ($withcomments != 1) && trim($feedburner_settings['feedburner_url']) != ) {
[edit] Laconica
Installed but several features don't work due to reliance on external processes which are not easily (impossible?) to run on Dreamhost:
- XMPP (can try to set up once on VPS as it requires running a daemon. UPDATE: It also requires 'pcntl_fork' to be compiled, which it isn't)
- Search (relies on Sphinx)
- SMS and Email posting (relies on Mailparse)
[edit] Design
[edit] Comments on Fake Digital Britain Report
Seems very difficult to figure out where to comment. I can't see the point of fibre to the home for every home in Britain- wireless broadband coverage seems to make more sense to me. But without an undiscussed sweeping edit that will completely change the first section (which would probably simply be reverted), there's no platform to question it.
Some guidance would be helpful here... SomeRandomNerd 19:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Normally, you'd use the Discussion tab on a wiki to comment on the main page, but this is being used to feed comments from the digital Britain site. You could present your wireless suggestion as an alternative proposal to fibre. Rather than trying to suggest one solution, lay out a set of alternatives? josswinn 19:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
