Comments on: Blog updates

By: mlopes

mlopes — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:28:35 +0000

Cool! That reminds me that I also should allow OpenID on my blogs! If we want to embrace it we need to support it :-)

By: mlopes

mlopes — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:30:15 +0000

Damn, if you’re not authenticated with OpenID prior to submitting the post it will get cleared out! Happened to me right now. I think I’ll delay using this plugin before it’s stable enough but I’ll definitely keep your post as a reminder! :-)

By: Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:06:58 +0000

Yeah, that’s a bummer. I need to try commenting on a LiveJournal (or some other) blog and see if the same thing happens. However, if you want OpenID with WordPress this plugin seems like the best way to go, which is always better than nothing :)

By: Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:18:18 +0000

Yeah :| Livejournal let’s you comment right away. I have to look into this.

By: Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:06:53 +0000

Oops. Disregard that !

The post doesn’t get cleared out. It’s just held for moderation :)
The plugin author pointed out this, and it’s true. Works like a charm.

By: mlopes

mlopes — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:09:56 +0000

Then that was it! But still I didn’t receive any confirmation that the comment was submitted!

By: Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:23:03 +0000

I’ll quote the plugin creator, Alan Castonguay:
“Honestly, I think that LJ’s mechanism is perfect. It makes use of a comment preview loop to give the second comment box. Wordpress doesn’t have much of a mechanism to support this feature, apart from hooking into another kludgy comment preview plugin, or duplicating the work myself. If comment preview is put into the Wordpress core, this becomes easy.”

I’ll just put up a warning explaining how it works.