“Greg’s Comment Length Limiter Plugin for WordPress” Comments, Page 1

41 Responses (Including 13 Discussion Threads) to “Greg’s Comment Length Limiter Plugin for WordPress”

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   HotForWords

   4th February 2009

   1

   Hmmm.. doesn’t seem to work for me.. I just added it to my website.. but perhaps another plug-in is conflicting?

   Can you see why it doesn’t work?

   You can see it here.

   Marina

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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     4th February 2009

     1.1

     Hi Marina,

     No problem — just have another peek at the usage instructions and how to prepare your comment form. Your comment form doesn’t yet have the correct name attribute, and your textarea doesn’t have the additions made by the gcll_tweak_textarea() function.

     I’m glad to see the other plugin seems to be doing it’s job numbering your comments!

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
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     HotForWords

     5th February 2009

     1.2

     RTFM right Greg!! Added in the stuff you said in the Readme.. and I am golden!

     Thanks!

     Marina
     
     
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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     5th February 2009

     1.3

     Great!

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
2. 

   Nyssa

   5th February 2009

   2

   Ah! This is exactly what I’ve been after for the last couple of days! It will be perfect for my new project :) Thank you very much for writing this plugin. :)

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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     5th February 2009

     2.1

     I’m glad to hear it — and you’re welcome!

     Just in case you’re looking for a plugin to number your WordPress 2.7 comments, we have one of those floating around here, too… :-)

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
3. 

   baron

   5th February 2009

   3

   hi. Thanks for plugin

   perfect.

   Regards

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4. 

   ChuckC

   18th February 2009

   4

   I have added the plugin and modified the footer.php and the comments.php in the Atahualpa theme as I understood them, but am having problems when comments are pasted into the block. Is that normal?

   The numbers count down in response to keystrokes fine, but after a couple of cut and paste operations the counter seems to get lost. Is there a way around that?

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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     18th February 2009

     4.1

     Hi Chuck,

     In order to understand the problem, we’d need to nail down the details quite a bit more — e.g., when you say “having problems”, what does that mean? And the counter seems to “get lost”…?

     Feel free to give me a holler via the contact pages if you like, with more information on what you’re experiencing and some registration details I can use to see the problem (since your site requires registration, I can’t see the problem for myself).

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
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     ChuckC

     19th February 2009

     4.2

     On closer examination it is working fine. The counter doesn’t update on a cut and paste until a keystroke is entered or the maximum number of characters is encountered.

     The fact it did not immediately count down had me confused, but on closer examination it is working fine. You are welcome to try it at garlandgop.com using the subscriber level user “test” with password “xyzzy”, but it works the same as the counter on your site.

     Many thanks this counter is a tremendous improvement to me.
     
     
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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     19th February 2009

     4.3

     Hi Chuck,

     Excellent — I’m glad to hear it’s working well!

     That password for the subscriber test account takes me right back to ‘inside the building’…way better than being in a maze of twisty little passages…

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
5. 

   Tyler

   17th March 2009

   5

   Hi Greg – I’m almost there. I’m trying to install with Automattic’s new P2 Theme (with WP2.7), which mimics Twitter.

   I have the limiter working, so that when the character limit is hit, the text input stops taking characters. And I’ve manually placed the character countdown box in a number of places, and it displays the limit I have set (280), but it doesn’t count down.

   I’ve tried it on two different browsers, just in case it was JS not turned on, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I’ll try to paste the code here, but if not, let me know what I can answer…

   Thanks!

   <form id="commentform" action="/wp-comments-post.php" method="post">

   <textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols ="45" rows="3" >

   Logged in as <a href="/wp-admin/profile.php">. <a href="/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out">Log out →

   Name (required)
   <input id="author" name="author" type="text" value="" />

   Email (required)
   <input id="email" name="email" type="text" value="" />

   Web Site
   <input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="" />

    <img src="/i/indicator.gif" alt="Loading..." />

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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     17th March 2009

     5.1

     Hi Tyler,

     Your comment form needs a name attribute of ‘commentform’ — from what you’ve pasted, it looks like it has an id attribute of ‘commentform’, but no name.

     Good luck!

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
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     Tyler

     17th March 2009

     5.2

     worked beautifully, thanks Greg!

     i’m still trying to figure out how to get the [more] button going with the_excerpt for posts, or modify the_content to limit posts (all automatically), but that’s another plugin entirely, I suppose.
     
     
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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     17th March 2009

     5.3

     I’m glad to hear it! :-)

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
6. 

   DOM

   3rd April 2009

   6

   I did everything the way it was described but it still doesn’t work! Any ideas? I am using WP 2.7.1…

   <form action=”/wp-comments-post.php” method=”post” id=”commentform” name=”commentform” >

   [...]

   <textarea name=”comment” id=”comment” tabindex=”4″ cols=”100%” rows=”4″ >

   [...]

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7. 

   DOM

   3rd April 2009

   7

   And one more time

   <textarea name="comment" id="comment" tabindex="4" cols="100%" rows="4" >

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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     3rd April 2009

     7.1

     Hi DOM,

     If you’re having trouble posting the code, you could always try posting a link to the code instead. From what I can see so far, you have the form tag prepared, but not the textarea tag. I.e., the textarea tag doesn’t yet have the function call…or did that bit just get eaten by the WordPress code-in-comments guardians?

     Also, have you used the previous version successfully, or is this your first use of the plugin, with version 1.2?

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
8. 

   Harrison

   20th April 2009

   8

   I added the code you listed and the countdown box works on my site but when I try and open the settings for it I get this message:

   Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_specialchars_decode() in /homepages/43/d274348678/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/gregs-comment-length-limiter/gcll-options-functions.php on line 241

   Any idea why?

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     Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

     20th April 2009

     8.1

     Hi Harrison,

     Hmmm, that’s pretty weird if you’re running 2.7 or above (which is required for the plugin), since the function which the error message is telling you hasn’t been defined is defined by the WordPress core. (You can verify whether it’s missing from the WordPress core by checking in wp-includes/formatting.php. The current version of that file looks like it has a date stamp of 29 Jan 2009.)

     The usual advice for something going wrong in the WordPress core is just to re-upload the original files, following the instructions available at the WordPress site.

     I hope you’re able to get things back in fully working order — it’s probably only a matter of time before some other bit of code wants to use that same function, so the sooner it’s available, the better.

     All the best,
     Greg
     
     
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   22nd April 2009

   9

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10. 

    Rafael Arcanjo

    19th May 2009

    10

    Hi Dr. Greg,

    I’ve tried to put that on my blog with the new version 1.2.1 and couldn’t show the box , I don’t know why.

    The old version was working.

    Look at the site above.

    I have a wp_footer() call on my footer.php and if you need my code from the textarea, call me on my mail.

    ps: sorry for my bad english :(

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      Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

      20th May 2009

      10.1

      Hi Rafael,
      I can tell from looking at your source code that the plugin is installed and functioning, and the JavaScript is being included as it should be, with a length limit of 800 characters. What I cannot tell without being registered at your site is whether your comment form is correctly configured to enable the JavaScript to work.
      I’m afraid I can’t offer much more feedback, since without being registered at your site, I can’t even see the comment form, let alone check what might be happening with it.
      I would recommend, though, that you have a peek at the plugin settings page (which has been updated) just to double-check that everything is set the way you want it to be, and then test once more.
      All the best,
      Greg
      
      
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      Rafael Arcanjo

      20th May 2009

      10.2

      Hi Greg, Thanks for your patience!

      I think my plugin settings page is correct. There is not much information to make a mistake (I hope.. hehe)

      Limit: 800
      Automatically insert the box: Yes
      Text to Display: caracteres disponíveis
      Action for Oversized Comments?: Moderate
      Disable from administrators: Yes

      My comment form has a name commentform and I think my textarea is Ok.
      
      
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      Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

      20th May 2009

      10.3

      Hi Rafael,

      Again, I cannot offer much without being able to see what is actually happening on your site (which I cannot do without being able to log in).

      Note, however, that you will not see the length limiter box at all while you are logged in — since you have specified that the plugin’s functionality should be disabled for administrators. (I’m assuming that you mean the box doesn’t appear for other users, since it is designed not to appear for you, given your settings…)

      All the best,
      Greg
      
      
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      Rafael Arcanjo

      20th May 2009

      10.4

      What a Shame, Greg!

      I Forgot that I’m administrator and don’t see the box ! OMG ! What a Shame !!!

      It’s working pretty well. My bad, my bad !

      Thanks, Dr. Greg(ory House)!
      
      
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      Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

      20th May 2009

      10.5

      No problem, Rafael — glad it’s working for you. :-)