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hberberoglu Thanks so much for your respones above. I thought I had the latest version, but I’ll check this. Your advice was very helpful. Good luck with future releases.

Thanks David for that update. Looking forward to the next release then.

Thanks for the update on the template issue. The new include line fixed the problem.

arno_esterhuizen solution is preferable. As already said, hacking the core is not a good idea, if you can do it with a plugin. I tried this plugin with 2.7 and it works perfectly. Thanks arno_esterhuizen!

Looks like we have the same problems on tinyMCE comment plugin. So there is no wysiwyg editor compatible with wordpress 2.7 nested comments. It’s a choice between the editor or the nested comments, but we can’t have both. Urgh …

Thanks mk for an explanation. Sorry this can’t be resolved yet, as nested comments is a priority for many users.

This plugin works fine on latest 2.7

I have made some simple hacks to show the complete comment text as well as the title, following my thoughts in the above comment. Can someone show me how to truncate comment text to say 100 characters?
Im using ‘” . $comment->comment_content . “‘ in the template to get the text

also trying to add avatars to the commenter name, but not succeeding …

>>Messire Loup: In the admin options for this plugin, there are options to show a checkbox “Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail”

https://skullbit.com/wordpress-plugin/register-plus/ is one of the best custom registration plugins available. You can build your own registration forms that must include an invitation code entered by the applicant before it’s validated. How does that help you? well what criteria do you allow or veto a registration? One way to do this is to ask for a simple contact form request for registration, (use cForms plugin) making certain required fields that give you criteria data to make your decision on any application. If the applicant meets that criteria, email them back with a registration code that they can use in the ‘register-plus’ self-registration process. It will validate and allow them access to their profile page.

You can do almost anything with wordpress, you’re only limited by your ability to add concepts and apply the code!

Another thought. unregistered commenters can’t be recorded. I think this could be improved, maybe by logging the supplied name against email addresses if user is not registered or not logged in. Maybe then we have an option to log non-member commenters [yes/no]

Just an idea.Thanks …

I just downloaded version Stable tag: 1.1 before my post above..?

[edit] Got it version 1.2 has the widget. Many thanks … that was quick work (LOL)

It’s a feature request:

1- add gravatar support
2- show extract of comment
3- reply now link on each comment

Think about it … since 2.7, the above is already available in the core. Adding these extras to BT active discussions makes it into a mini forum discussion board.

Domi1975 a further thought here … using an xml file will ONLY populate posts/categories/comments/dates/etc data. Any plugins and theme you install and configure locally is NOT part of and xml file import. If plugin and theme configurations are not important to you then go xml. If you want the whole site ‘mirrored’ on your server, you need to use a full wp-content local backup and transfer this to your online server version. Then you need to make a local database backup and overwrite this copy to your online server. Then, you will nearly have a mirror.

I say nearly, because there are some very important extras that need to be done to make the online site work properly

1- If you add any images locally to your site, you should not use full urls like https://localhost/mysite/wp-content/uploads…etc

If you do this, these must be changed en mass to reflect the new address of the images online. You can do this by opening the local database and doing a msss search and replace of the URL The other option is to add images by releative URLs such as ./wp-content/etc … If you do this the ./ will be filled in by whatever the site root is.

2- permalinks. I doubt that you used permalinks (pretty links) locally, but if you did, change this back to default before backing up the DB

3- Site URL this also needs changing in the database if it has been written as https://localhost/ …

4- save the database with these changes and save it as the same name as the database for the online version of the site.

5- You should now be able to ‘overwrite’ the online database, by selecting to restore it in cpanel your new modified local version.

6- Clear browser cache and cookies and login with your local login details.

7- If you want to keep a synchronised copy of your site locally, try out this system here https://www.mariosalexandrou.com/blog/?p=233

I have done this procedure a few times quite successfully, but you need to take time to check everything, especially the database changes. If you’re not comfortable with hacking the database file, this can be daunting at first.

Remember, everything in your localhost database that refers to https://localhost/ must be changed to show https://mydomain.com/ where ‘mydomain’ is your online TLD

There is a further issue here: Importing an XML file is good for content like links, text categories, comments etc. The file is uploaded to your server and populates the wp tables from the uploaded data. Images are another matter. So when if you select import all media in the import option (orwhatever the phrase is) it has to query the addresses for your images and transfer them across to your new site.

This can be a problem, if you have images on a ‘localhost’ server that is NOT configured to run publically. If you are importing images from another public server, this works ok, although sometimes, you have to repeat the import sequence, if you run out of memory. On the second run it usually picks up where it failed last time and continues to import the remaining images.

I have a similar problem moving a domain from one server to another using the xml export/import method. Once I change the DNS to the new site, the old site image addresses cant be reached. My solution is to rename image addresses in my downloaded xml file changing the domain (that has now moved)to the old server temporary IP address. I’m hoping that using this xml file will import old images correctly.

This is a tricky procedure … would be nice to hear from someone who has done it successfully??

Same for me… blank page??