Hey, that’s excellent — I’m really glad to hear it’s working for you!

(Beware that the article you mentioned talks about the pre-2.7 way of displaying comments, so if you ever need to modify something using the new code for 2.7 and later, you may want something newer to refer to.)

Incidentally, your energy bar recipe looks extremely tasty! Yummmm!

All the best,
Greg

All the best,
Greg

Thanks for your response. Good news/bad news: I’ve gone back and tried several things… the plugin seems to work ok at present, except the countdown “character counter” is there, but doesn’t count down. (As I type this, your counter is functioning normally.)

I tried pasting a 900+ word document as a comment, and when I submitted it, the plugin truncated it, per the settings I’d opted for. So it works (I think), but the counter isn’t.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your time and help!

Kevin

I’m afraid I’m not able to provide custom coding or theme modifications for folks using the plugin, but I hope the instructions above (including the explicit code example from the default theme) can be of some help.

As a general guide, with regard to the name attribute, if you have a peek at your comments.php file in your theme, you’ll find the form tag in it already has id="commentform", and what it needs is that as well as name="commentform".

Then it’s just a matter of adding the template tag documented in the instructions on this page (namely, gcll_tweak_textarea), and you’re good to go.

For general assistance with modifying XHTML in general or WordPress theme files in particular, there are loads of free resources out there as well as plenty of paid help available for folks who would just like to get it done without investing lots of their time.

All the best,
Greg

I’m using Vladimir Prelovac’s Amazing Grace theme. I have no idea of how to find whether or not the comment form has the name attribute “commentform”. (I’ve looked through comment.php but can’t find it.) I inserted the code into the appropriate line, but it doesn’t seem to work.

aaaarrrggghhhh! I may need counseling after all of this! ;-) Can you help??

Thanks in advance…

Kevin

Without any further details to go on, the best I can suggest is to double-check that you have followed the instructions fully, including ensuring that your comment form has a name attribute of commentform and adding the required template tag/function call within the appropriate textarea tag.

All the best,
Greg

I see that in your site the counter is diminishing in real time the “characters available”, What can i do for work this feature?

Thanks for your quick assistance.

Hmmm, if you check my reply to another recent comment at the following URL, I mention that the ‘disappearing options’ problem only seems to have been reported in cases where WP’s built-in auto-upgrade system has failed to perform properly:

http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/01/27/threaded-comment-numbering-plugin-for-wordpress/#comment-50900

I’d recommend the suggestions from that reply.

Some people are also getting hassles from WP 2.8’s higher memory requirements. If you’re affected, you can open up your wp-settings.php file and change WP_MEMORY_LIMIT from 32M to 64M.

With regard to the red circle after “Plugins”, that’s WP’s built-in system letting you know whether any of your plugins need to be updated. If you visit your plugin admin page, you’ll see a notice if there are new versions available of any of your plugins. (That red circled number doesn’t always update straight away. It may take a few more clicks around your admin panel before it shows correctly.)

All the best,
Greg