Comments in 1.5/new template

  • Hello,
    I’m having a few problems with comments. Two problems in particular are bothering me, and I can’t find anything in previous threads here that seems to address them.
    The first problem arises on the single-post page (although it also arises if the main template is used to handle a single post). It looks as though the call to comments_popup_link just doesn’t get made when there is just one post. See, for example:
    https://andwat.weblogs.us/archives/5
    Then I get to the comments popup page. It needs a little work, but that’s not my main problem with it. The main problem is that, after I leave a comment, WP stuffs the main template into the popup box.
    Thanks in advance for any help,
    Andrew

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  • Thread Starter andwat

    (@andwat)

    After digging around, I found the answer to my first problem. It is that comments_popup_link cannot be called from a post page (single.php). This can be worked round with a small edit to WP source. Thanks to Kafkaesqui, in:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=25853
    While digging, I found that the standard way to deal with comments on a post page is to use comments_template. This appears to be a template tag that just grabs comments.php. Is that right? If so, shouldn’t it be listed on:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags
    I still have the second problem I originally reported. After leaving a comment in the popup box, WP stuffs everything, sidebars and all, into the box.
    To add a problem… WP seems to like to give me very wide comment boxes. You can see this is you try to leave a comment at my blog.
    Thanks for any help…

    “This appears to be a template tag that just grabs comments.php. Is that right? If so, shouldn’t it be listed on:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags “

    Yes, it should. I’ll put it on my list of things to add to the Template Tags index. Thanks.

    For your second problem, this thread might help:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=26015

    On the third, try adding this to your theme’s style.css:

    #commentform textarea {
    width: 300px;
    }

    Play with the width value to suit.

    Thread Starter andwat

    (@andwat)

    Kafka,
    Thanks again. The comments popup now restricts itself to comments, rather than trying to stuff the whole post page into the popup.
    The #commentform textarea {width
    suggestion didn’t seem to affect the width of the text area on the popup, though. Perhaps it refers to the text area summoned by comments_template? (That was ridiculously wide when I tried comments_template.)
    If you are Template Tag Documentation Guy, then you are even more of a hero. And it might be worth an explicit comment on the page on comments_popup_link that it won’t work from single.php (with the WP 1.5 code – not sure whether this is seen as something that should be fixed in 1.5.1).

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