Wordpress Plugin v1.5 - 1.6 Administration Guide
N.B. Please go here for installation instructions.
contents:
New Features
1.5
- Better spam protection
- JavaScript comments for additional spam protection
- New moderation types {add linky!}
- Improved export function
1.6
- Held comments visible to comment author
The plugin settings page in WordPress dashboard:
Moderation Type
The plugin now has two moderation types to choose from, which detemine when comments should be displayed to end users. These are: Post-Moderation (comments are moderated after being displayed to users) and Pre-Moderation (comments are moderated before being displayed to users).
This is the standard moderation type which earlier plugins used. Comments are displayed to users BEFORE they are accepted, rejected or marked as spam by the moderator. This is essentially the same as having the: "An administrator must always approve the comment" setting disabled (un-ticked) in the WordPress Discussion settings in the WordPress dashboard.
This moderation type hides comments from end users until AFTER they have been moderated, either in DiscussIt Live Moderator, Wordpress or DiscussIt mobile. This mimics the behaivour of having the "An administrator must always approve the comment" setting enabled (ticked) in the WordPress Discussion settings in the WordPress dashboard.
Plugin Mode
This mode uses the standard wordpress comment system to display comments using the currently enabled theme. This mode has only some of the spam-protection offered by the DiscussIt plugin. To make use of all the spam-protection features of the DiscussIt plugin the "DiscussIt Style" mode must be enabled.
Using this mode sometimes requires changes to be made to the WordPress discussion settings. Please see section 5 for more details.
This mode uses the DiscussIt JavaScript widget to display the comments and comment submission form. This mode offers greater protection against spam-bots than the "WordPress Style" mode.
Exporting Comments
If you are installing the DiscussIt WordPress plugin on a blog that already has a number of comments in its database you will need to synchronize your blog with the DiscussIt API using the plugin's "export" feature...
Important Caveats
In order to keep your WordPress comments in sync with the DiscussIt API, you must ensure that you do not change certain discussion settings in Wordpress. If you choose to use DiscussIt-style comments (JavaScript widget) you probably won't notice any difference unless you switch back to wordpress-style comments.
It is important to note that there are some differences between the way the standard WordPress commenting system deals with comments and how the JavaScript widget...