Comments on: New Version of Comment Length Plugin Adds Anti-Spam Features

By: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:33:22 +0000

If you have a peek at the README file included with the plugin — or the original plugin announcement page — you’ll find an example showing how the default theme comment textarea can be modified.

I’m afraid I’m not able to provide tutorials on how to customize theme files or tweak XHTML, but there are myriad resources out there to help with adding something like name='commentform' to your comment form tag.

All the best,
Greg

By: about comments

about comments — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:14:20 +0000

1. Make sure your comment form has a name attribute of commentform
2. Add the following template tag inside the textarea tag of your comment area, preferably wrapped in a conditional that tests whether the function exists: gcll_tweak_textarea()
3. Optionally, if you would like to position the countdown box yourself, add the following template tag wherever you would like the box to appear within your comment form, again preferably wrapped in a conditional that tests whether the function exists: gcll_show_limit_box_manually()

In default theme where the put this(1,2,3)
I am new on wordpress(and other cms applications)

By: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:13:40 +0000

Excellent — glad to hear it! :-)

All the best,
Greg

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:03:38 +0000

Hi Greg, thanks for your response. You are right, I had mistakenly deleted wp_footer() in my footer. Put it back and everything is now working fine.

Thanks

By: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:18:53 +0000

Hi Jack,

Hmm, that’s an error you’d ordinarily see only if your theme were missing the standard call to wp_footer(), which this plugin relies on to make sure its JavaScript gets included on the page.

Was the plugin working fine for you, then you upgraded, and suddenly it is not working — but with no other changes in the interim? (And you do have JavaScript enabled in your browser, I assume?) When you scan through your source code, do you see some inline JavaScript right near the bottom, flagged with a comment line that says the following:

If the answer is no, then it sounds like something might be interfering with the addition of the JavaScript via the standard WordPress wp_footer().

All the best,
Greg

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:05:21 +0000

Just did an upgrade to the new version and the counter is suddenly broken and wont count down the number of characters. Checking in the JS firefox console I get the following error Error: gcllCounter is not defined. Any idea what is causing this?

By: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:59:32 +0000

Hi Russ, If you have a peek inside the comments.php file in your theme, look for the opening form tag, which will very likely have the following attribute inside it: id="commentform" You'll just need to add the following along with that: name="commentform" If that's the problem, that should allow the comment counting box to work correctly. (It also requires that JavaScript be enabled in the user's browser.) All the best, Greg

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:52:20 +0000

Hi. I am having trouble using this plugin. The text box is truncating the comment size but the characters available counter is not counting down. I am assuming this has something to do with the fact that I don’t have a ‘commentform’ Name Attribute, but I am not sure how to add this or where to add it. Any help would be beneficial.

Thanks.