Comments
Discussion under any site entry — a news item, page, file, product or custom section entry: threaded replies, pre-moderation, rated reviews, anti-spam and a moderation queue in the admin panel.
Features
- Attaches to entries of news, pages, downloads, products and custom sections. Those modules know nothing about comments: turn comments off and the site carries on as before.
- Threaded replies up to five levels deep. A reply deeper than allowed is placed next to the last permitted level, so nothing written is lost.
- Guests post with a name and, optionally, an email; the email is never shown on the site.
- Pre-moderation: a new comment stays hidden until it is approved.
- Signed-in users can edit or delete their own comment within a set time.
- Reviews rated from 1 to 5 wherever the owning module allows it (currently the shop): an average score above the reviews and a «Verified purchase» badge when the shop confirms the purchase.
- Bot protection without a CAPTCHA: a hidden honeypot field, a minimum fill time, a link limit, a per-address submission limit and duplicate filtering.
- In the admin panel: «Pending», «Published» and «Spam» queues, bulk actions and a counter of waiting comments in the menu. The «Missing source» tab lists comments whose entry has been deleted.
Settings
In the admin panel: Comments → Settings, in four groups.- Publishing and permissions: guest comments, moderation before publishing, editing own comments and the edit window (30 minutes by default).
- Reviews and ratings: ratings, the average score and the «Verified purchase» badge.
- Discussion and display: order, closing the discussion after N days, reply depth (0–5), minimum and maximum length, conversations per page.
- Anti-spam: minimum fill time, allowed number of links, posts per IP per 10 minutes, duplicate window.
Permissions
- Moderate comments — see the section in the admin panel, approve comments, and send them to spam or the bin. Comments from users with this permission are published without pre-moderation.
On the site
The module has no pages of its own. The «Discussion» block sits below the content of an entry page. The form is signed with the module's key, so a comment cannot be slipped under someone else's entry.Installation and removal
Installation creates the comments table and the module's own form-signing key. Removing the module with its data drops the table with all comments and ratings, along with the module's permission and settings.How to install
You already have it. Panel → Modules → enable.
Version history
1.2.0
- Users can edit or delete their own comment within a set window; edited comments are marked
- The admin section is now an overview, with status queues on separate tabs and bulk actions
- New «Missing source» tab: comments whose entry has been deleted or whose module is turned off
- Settings for the average rating and the «Verified purchase» badge
- Choice of discussion order: oldest first or newest first
- Anti-spam is configurable: fill time, number of links, posting rate, duplicate window
- A person's comment count is shown in their account area
1.1.0
- Reviews rated from 1 to 5 wherever the owning module allows ratings; the average counts only rated reviews
- Authors get a circle with their initials, in a colour that stays the same for the same name
- Rate limit on form submissions
- Pagination for discussions; the admin panel shows which entry a comment was left under
1.0.0
- Comments under entries of any module that reports what the page is about: news, pages, section entries
- Single-level replies, pre-moderation and silent bot protection
- A moderation queue with a counter in the admin menu, status tabs and the bin
- The form is signed with the module's own key, so a comment cannot be slipped under someone else's entry
Questions and findings go to the forum: the Modules section