Bug reports

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 52 Looking for a place to tell us about a bug? This is it.

Our running list of bug fixes and enhancements.

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 1 Changes in version 3.2
(release date TBA)
• columns now fill the viewport
• page numbering scheme
• option to hide page title (globally and per-page basis)
• disabled CP support for other themes (it was broken anyway)
• custom body bg, header bg and header text colours
• logo uploads – just attach image to ‘Table of Contents’ page
• commentblock quicktag and TinyMCE button
• full accessibility update: semantic comment form, para icons, skip links, form validation and empty search fix
• commentblocks now have permalinks
• Theme-My-Login plugin support
• WP License plugin support
• contextual help text on plugin settings page
• explicit theme modification (custom.css)
• removed all hard-coded JS variables
• WPMU (multisite): signup and activation pages styled
• WPMU (multisite): illegal blog names set
• and numerous bug-fixes

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Changes in version 3.1
(released 19/05/09)
• Cookies are now specific to a blog in an MU context (rather than to a site).
• Cookies also respect WordPress installations in subdirectories of a site.
• The [caption] shortcode is now supported, as generated by the WordPress import functionality.
• The following in-post modifiers are now supported:
<!–more–>
<!–noteaser–>
<!–nextpage–>
• The “General Comments” icon has been replaced.
• Minimising the “Comments” column now “sticks” for all pages where there is a comments column.
• Minimiser buttons have been removed from “Table of Contents” and “Archive” columns.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Changes in version 3.0
(released 11/05/09)
• This is a complete reworking of the theme and the addition of a plugin. Full documentation to follow.

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Comments

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AnnaBella July 30, 2007 at 1:11 pm

I tried this theme on my test site. It seems to work fine in Firefox but I get a javascript void error in IE.

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1. Eddie A. Tejeda July 31, 2007 at 12:25 am
  
  This should be resolved in version 1.1
  
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Dustin October 1, 2007 at 1:42 pm

I’ve run into this same issue. It would appear to be something that shows up in Commentpress when you have WP2.3 installed. I was able to successfully use CP with both WP versions 2.1 and 2.2.3.

A look at my htttpd error log seems to indicate that CP causes some sort of unrecoverable error. Example:
[Thu Sep 27 10:56:34 2007] [notice] child pid 1596 exit signal Illegal instruction (4)

I’ve received the same issue on both Mac OSX and Solaris. I’ve tried it both with Apache 1.33 and Apache2, and PHP4 and 5.

This really does seem to be some incompatibility between WP2.3 and CP1.4.

Thanks!

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Leslie Johnston October 9, 2007 at 9:22 am

Is something like captcha or recaptcha in the development plan, or has added this themselves? Our sys admin wonders if there is a way to integrate challenge-response into Commentpress to avoid automated spamming.

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Jon Potts October 23, 2007 at 7:43 pm

I’m new to Commentpress and just a week old on the edublogs site.

I’d love to use Commentpress for my English class homepage/blog, but…
The “read/write comments” bubbles do not seem to function on my site. I click and nothing happens–my fault?

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Godffrey September 3, 2008 at 4:12 am

We look forward to seeing developments in the future.

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Bruce D'Arcus February 4, 2009 at 11:59 am

On the floating overview list, the “Paragraph X” list seems both repetitive, and rather thin on information. Am wondering if it might be more helpful to instead have a heading “Paragraphs” followed by a numbered list that includes the first line of each paragraph?

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MJ Ray February 5, 2009 at 3:50 pm

eddie@futureofthebook.org is a bouncing address.

Anyway: when will Commentpress be accessible without JavaScript? It’s not possible to use this without failing accessibility guidelines at present, which is a shame for a good tool. If it’s not planned yet, can you outline what changes you think would be needed?

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1. Christian Wach November 17, 2010 at 10:24 am
  
  @MJ: It has been ever since version 3.1. The latest version (3.2) adds full compatibility with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Caveat: that’s as far as we call tell without a professional audit.
  
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Jon September 16, 2009 at 7:50 am

Hi there

Is Commentpress dead? Any news of updates to theme welcome!

Best wishes

Jon

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1. Christian Wach November 17, 2010 at 10:25 am
  
  Er, no. Please check back for version 3.2 – out today.
  
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Jon September 16, 2009 at 8:05 am

I should add if anyone can drop the code or where to find it to make compatible with 2.8.4 pls do.

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1. Christian Wach November 17, 2010 at 10:25 am
  
  Commentpress 3.2 now requires WordPress 3.0.1.
  
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Ruby October 6, 2010 at 11:09 am

Hi, I’m using Commentpress 3.1 on my multisite WordPress site v 3.0.1. We’re having a problem with Safari users who are logged in. When they click to “comment on this page” (or paragraph), it just reloads the page but the comment form does not appear. It works fine in Safari for registered users, but we need for everyone to be able to comment on the site. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

The site is at https://blogs.hastac.org/duke/makn

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Ruby October 6, 2010 at 11:23 am

A little more info: we SOMETIMES have the above issue with Firefox and IE as well.

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Martin Burr January 23, 2011 at 7:21 am

Automatic installation only installs ‘readme.txt’, error in header is the error message.

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1. Christian Wach January 23, 2011 at 3:36 pm
  
  Hi Martin – Are you trying to install Commentpress from the WordPress plugins repository? That won’t work. Please download the plugin and theme from this site instead.
  
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Jonathan Dueck August 31, 2012 at 11:24 pm

Hi, I’m trying to use CommentPress in several classes I’m teaching at Duke University. This past year I used it and it was a marvelous tool for writing-intensive work. But the University has just updated to WordPress 3.3.2 and CommentPress no longer works–paragraphs no longer have a “comment” icon to their left. This is true using the previous and current versions of CommentPress (as of 8/31/2012). I realize this might well be a result of the integration of WordPress at Duke with our NetID (Shibboleth) authentication system. But I thought I’d ask if you know of version incompatibilities between the current version of CommentPress and WordPress 3.3.2?

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1. Christian Wach September 3, 2012 at 4:59 pm
  
  Replied offlist
  
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Gord Wilson January 12, 2013 at 3:40 pm

HiThis is exactly what our writing group is needing.I have it on the test site and for the most part it is working ok.It is a multisite and is running WP 3.5.I think I first activated it as a network but then changed it to a site activation.It is using the built in menu and dosen’t seem to use the built in WP menus. This is ok I guess but not ideal.The problem is on the built in menu the home page button takes you back to the root web-sitei instead of the sub website. Of course I don’t have CP installed on the root website so it just goes to a blank screen..Can I edit a php file to fix this or can I get CP to use the WP menu system? Thanks

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Shawn September 9, 2013 at 2:13 pm

Hi!

We’ve got commentpress 3.5 installed, but we’re getting a funny error with some of our users. Seems to happen if, while entering a comment, the paragraph in question gets scrolled out of frame -get an ajax error, ‘Cannot call method ‘toSTring’ of undefined

but other times not. See

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTun6S7CYAMc0bC.png

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1. Shawn September 9, 2013 at 2:14 pm
  
  also get error, ‘a is undefined’
  
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Mike Stumpf September 22, 2013 at 9:21 am

Hello,

I am getting fatal PHP errors when I try to use the commentpress-core themes:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_blogs_root_slug() in …/wp-content/plugins/commentpress-core/themes/commentpress-modern/assets/templates/navigation.php on line 140

&

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_blogs_root_slug() in …/wp-content/plugins/commentpress-core/themes/commentpress-theme/assets/templates/user_links.php on line 65

The plugins I am using are: CommentPress-core, Commons in a Box, All in One WP Security, Jetpack, and Akismet. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling CommentPress but with no luck. I have not modified anything in the plugin files.

Do you know why this might be happening?

Thanks

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1. Christian Wach September 23, 2013 at 4:25 am
  
  Hi Mike, sounds like something is amiss with your BuddyPress installation. Do you have blog signups enabled? Do you have any BuddyPress components disabled?
  
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Peter Hulse August 31, 2017 at 1:15 pm

The scrollbar on the table of contents does not activate until the TOC is clicked. Until the bottom of the table is not visible to the user. Have I got too many items on it? I’ve tried adapting the CSS. No success. I hope you can help. Apart from this, I rate Commentpress very highly.

Reply to Peter Hulse
1. Christian Wach August 31, 2017 at 4:24 pm
  
  Hi Peter, which browser are you using when you see this? Do you have a site where I can see the problem for myself? If not, steps to reproduce the problem would be most helpful.
  
  Cheers, Christian
  
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  1. Peter Hulse August 31, 2017 at 5:17 pm
    
    http://www.argonautica4.co.uk is the website where I’m having the problem with the scroll bar on the table of contents. I use Safari but I’ve looked at it in IE and Chrome and it’s the same. Thanks for replying. Peter
    
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    1. Christian Wach September 5, 2017 at 6:12 am
      
      Hi Peter, it looks to me as though you have Javascript errors and CSS issues which need clearing up. Once you have done that, I suspect the left hand column will scroll as expected.
      
      Cheers, Christian
      
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Madeline June 30, 2019 at 12:20 pm

Hi! I’m using the CommentPress Core theme and added a Forum/Discussion section as well to the WordPress site. Unfortunately, using the CommentPress Core theme, within the forums all of the comments are automatically transformed into ALL CAPS which is making them sound a little bit aggressive. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks,

Madeline

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1. Christian Wach July 2, 2019 at 6:50 am
  
  Hi Madeline, which plugin are you using to implement your forums?
  
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Leo November 30, 2020 at 2:53 pm

Hello, is it normal that the archive of the categories of the blog are only one page (a ten items) ?

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1. Christian Wach December 15, 2020 at 4:11 am
  
  Yes, that’s normal. If you have more than that, you’ll find arrows which allow you to navigate to further pages of ten items each.
  
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Christian Wach April 23, 2019 at 5:59 am

You appear to be using a plugin that is a clone of CommentPress. You should contact the developers directly:

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/commentarysandbox/

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Rob Mc December 30, 2010 at 9:56 pm

There is a problem adding comments. I’m using WordPress 3.04. I enter the first comment, say on paragraph 3, and all is well. Then, when I go to enter a second comment, be it on paragraph 3 or any other, it won’t do it in the sidebar — the mouse never changes to allow text entry. However, if I toggle to full page, it will allow typing. Weird, I know, but there you go. I’m running Chrome, if that helps.

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1. Christian Wach December 31, 2010 at 10:38 am
  
  Thanks for the report Rob, will investigate
  
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Eric Bakovic July 2, 2012 at 5:24 pm

I also have a problem adding comments, though it’s somewhat different — I just can’t. I’m using WP mu 3.4, and when I try to add a comment, the “adding a comment” animated bar just keeps going and nothing gets added. (I’m having the same problem with digress.it, FWIW.)

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1. Eric Bakovic July 2, 2012 at 5:25 pm
  
  Meant to add: I’m experiencing the same problems in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on a Mac. And the problem is only with my own installation (https://quote.ucsd.edu/bakovic/), not with others (such as this one, obviously, since I can leave comments).
  
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  1. Christian Wach July 3, 2012 at 7:39 am
    
    Thank you for discovering a bug in Commentpress – it’s never been tested in https environments before and you revealed a weakness in how the AJAX commenting plugin was loading scripts. I’ve updated the plugin on GitHub.
    
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Peter July 6, 2012 at 7:37 am

WP 3.4.1. Multisite ->sub-blog1) When I try to reactivate ‘Display Header Text’ under Theme->customize->’Site Title and Tagline’ the title and tagline don’t reappear.2)Additionally: Regardless of what I check/uncheck/choose for options. The table of Contents page only displays TOC and nothing else.This is a fresh install.Any suggestions welcome.

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1. Christian Wach July 6, 2012 at 12:56 pm
  
  I’ve posted an update to the theme on GitHub which solves this for me. Thanks for alerting me to the issue.
  
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Peter July 7, 2012 at 3:37 am

Hi Christian, The fix works a treat for the title/tagline. they are visible again.You can see the Table of Contents issue @ http://journey.faithworks.eu/table-of-contents/One other issue now,I hide page title.I have added centered h1 tags+text instead for headings.They have all aligned left since the update.I tried deleting and recreating but they insist on going left.The HTML seems ok to me and in edit mode they are centered. Thanks for an awesome theme : )

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Peter July 8, 2012 at 3:51 am

Hi Christian, I don’t know if this is a bug or a user error. But when I try to activate Commentpress for BuddyPress I get “fatal error BP Groupblog must installed”, although it is installed. I have tried Network activation/local activation etc. WP 3.4.1/ BP 1.5.6/ BP for CP 1.0/BP Groupblog 1.7.1

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1. Christian Wach July 23, 2012 at 5:00 am
  
  Commentpress for BuddyPress is deprecated now. Please use Commentpress for Multisite instead.
  
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Peter July 21, 2012 at 6:36 am

Hi Christian, I noticed that the commentpress plugin fails (on the user end) with a fatal error when you use Rich text editing in conjunction with German as the default site language.

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1. Christian Wach July 23, 2012 at 4:59 am
  
  Thanks for the report, Peter – I’ll look into it.
  
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2. Christian Wach July 23, 2012 at 5:17 am
  
  This seems to be a bug in WordPress core. If you add the following line just before line 548 of ‘wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/wp-langs.php’, everything works as expected:
  
  if ( ! class_exists( '_WP_Editors' ) ) { require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-editor.php' ); }
  
  I’ll file a bug report on WordPress Trac. Thanks!
  
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  1. Christian Wach July 23, 2012 at 5:35 am
    
    Bug report filed here. Patch attached, which fixes the problem.
    
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Mike Kelly May 9, 2013 at 3:28 pm

We’re trying to install CommentPress 3.4.8 on a WordPress 3.4.2 server (multisite-enabled) and have run into problems.

When the plugin & theme are activated on a blog, the CommentPress UI shows up as expected. However, clicking on the add comment icon next to any post gives us a blank comment tab on the right, and the following javascript error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method ‘split’ of undefined
[snip code]

Any/all help would be appreciated. Can’t give you the URL of the actual box as it’s an internal dev server.

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1. Christian Wach May 10, 2013 at 12:09 pm
  
  Replied to you by email, Mike.
  
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gabriell con(tech)text July 27, 2013 at 11:22 am

How does CommentPress deal with Revisions? I change lots and have a huge revision history. Are annotations stored/moved/lost/fully accounted for version-by-version/altogether somewhere or…. ? Otherwise, lovely tool.

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1. Christian Wach July 29, 2013 at 8:33 am
  
  CommentPress ignores revisions, since it was primarily built as a tool for commenting on static texts, for example digital copies of already-published books.
  
  Revising the text too much will “orphan” the comments and make them appear under the page- or post-level comments section, though they can be reassigned to paragraphs by dragging their “Move” button to the appropriate paragraph.
  
  Applying comments to particular revisions would be possible, but I’ve not given it much thought so far since I imagine it to be a complex feature to implement.
  
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José D August 21, 2013 at 5:41 pm

I installed the plugin but something is off. Could be the theme not loading completely, or a CSS issue. Digress.it ran ok, but I rather go with your project. Can you help?.

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1. José D August 21, 2013 at 9:18 pm
  
  Fixed it. Apparently theme was not copied to appropriate folder. I copied it manually. All OK now.
  
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  1. Christian Wach August 21, 2013 at 10:06 pm
    
    Glad to hear it’s fixed, José, but odd that any themes needed copying anywhere, since CommentPress defines its own themes directory. What exactly did you need to do? Which version of WordPress are you using? Anything special about your setup?
    
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Vincent February 17, 2014 at 9:06 pm

Could you please integrate this plugin annotatorjs.org? It will enhance CommentPress with the wonderful function of commenting on selected words!

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1. Christian Wach February 18, 2014 at 5:14 am
  
  Interesting, thanks for pointing me to it.
  
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  1. Vincent February 18, 2014 at 7:29 pm
    
    And this plugin (under GPLv2) is also very powerful, it can track changes like Microsoft Word. But it is based on CKEditor, I’m not sure if it can be integrated with CommentPress.
    
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    1. Christian Wach February 19, 2014 at 5:27 am
      
      Thanks again – though I’m not clear how that would enhance CommentPress. What advantages do you see in it?
      
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Sarah March 26, 2015 at 11:42 am

Hi – have noticed that the sidebars do not scroll in Chrome for us, although they are working fine here. Fine for us in Firefox and IE.

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1. Christian Wach March 27, 2015 at 6:52 am
  
  Thanks for the report. I’m following up on this via email.
  
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Dave January 12, 2016 at 12:45 pm

Not a bug . . . more of a feature request . . . actually, more of a request that you develop something like a CommentPress option for a wiki that would provide a platform for collaborative develpment of point — counterpoint type articles. The main article (left column) would contain the position, arguments, and evidence for Position A. The left side column would be for counterpoint arguments . . . mostly short responses with links to other articles that would more systematically present the opposing view.

I was even thinking of raising money to hire a developer to create this plugin, as I have some great applications for it. A more complete description of what I have in mind is at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117368

Besides the platform (a collaborative wiki rather than a blog), what makes my proposal distinctly different from is that rather than have a running list of comments from numerous contributors (as you currently have it, which is very cool), the wiki version would enable collaborating editors to edit and refine the counterpoint argument and modify the links to the more complete responses to each point.

As I indicated, if this is within your coding skill set, I would even consider trying to raise money to fund development of plugin that could be used in a wiki environment.

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1. Christian Wach January 29, 2016 at 8:19 am
  
  Hi Dave, sounds like a good idea. Good luck with the project!
  
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julien March 8, 2016 at 3:18 pm

Hi,

Thank you very much for this great plugin.

I need to customize the comment form with several additionnal fields. I installed the “WP advanced comment” plugin for this. But it doesn’t work with Commentpress core.

Do you know why and how I could customize the comment form (with new fields, flag option, likes, etc.)

Thanks for your help !

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1. Christian Wach March 9, 2016 at 5:59 am
  
  CommentPress predates the comment_form() function, which I suspect is what the plugin you want to use hooks into. Upgrading CommentPress to use comment_form() is not trivial, I’m afraid.
  
  What you could do, however, is create a child theme and override the CommentPress comment form template with your own version that is compatible with WP Advanced Comment.
  
  Alternatively, there are a number of hooks in the stock CommentPress comment form that you could use to inject extra fields. Have a look at the ‘comment_form.php’ template for details.
  
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Ralph Bloch December 2, 2016 at 11:55 am

I am trying to ‘publish’ an interactive book using CommentPress. Since I am learning while doing, chapter 8 is the one chapter formated properly. But I do not see consistent paragraph marks, nor does the number of paragraphs for comments seem to correspond to the actual number of paragraphs in the document. It could be that I am doind something wrong. If so, I haven’t figured out what it is.

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1. Ralph Bloch December 4, 2016 at 6:47 am
 
 SOLVED!
 
 When I replace ….
 
 with:
 
 ….
 
 it works. Odd, isn’t it?
 
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 1. Christian Wach December 5, 2016 at 7:32 am
 
 Thanks for reporting your workaround, Ralph. Adding custom classes to paragraphs or other top-level tags isn’t supported by CommentPress. Adding tags inside – as you have done – is fine.
 
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Ralph Bloch December 12, 2016 at 4:08 pm

I am using a CommentPress child-theme/child-template. In the stylesheet I define a style .standard {…..; text-align:justify;…}

It justifies when I use it as , but then the commenting doesn’t work. For the commenting to work, I use , but then it doesn’t justify. It would be really neat if I could both justify and comment on a paragraph.

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1. Christian Wach December 13, 2016 at 5:54 am
 
 Hi Ralph – if you use the built-in “Justify” button in TinyMCE, then your text should be both justified and commentable. The underlying code is:
 
 
 
 Cheers, Christian
 
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 1. Christian Wach December 13, 2016 at 6:02 am
 
 Hi Ralph – you can see the result applying the standard theme unit tests against CommentPress on this test site. The tests are those for theme authors to see all the built-in formatting possibilities and make sure the theme accommodates them. The paragraph justification page can be found by following this link.
 
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 1. Ralph Bloch December 13, 2016 at 8:38 am
 
 Thanks Christian, I got a bit confused by the format tags you can see, and those you can’t. I am used to handcrafting my style-sheets. My tinyMCE editor does not seem to have a ‘Justify’ button, but using the menu item chain Format>Formats>Align>Justify I could get the desired effect.
 
 The pages now look pretty much as I like them. I am just left with one beef: I don’t seem to be able to modify the vertical paragraph distance. <style> {…;padding-bottom: 0.3in;..} doesn’t seem to do the trick, even if I fortify it with !important. Do you have any helpful suggestions?
 
 Ralph
 
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 1. Christian Wach December 13, 2016 at 10:48 am
 
 Ah yes, TinyMCE was tweaked recently. You’ll now find the Justify button if you click the Toolbar Toggle button. It’s in the second row.
 
 I don’t seem to be able to modify the vertical paragraph distance
 
 Try setting the margin instead:
 
 p.textblock {margin-bottom: 1em;}
 
 The above CSS works for me.
Ralph Bloch January 3, 2017 at 5:04 pm

I have another little problem that I was unable to solve: The second of the three panel switches obscures the right side of the text body when scrolling. I found its “right:74px;”, but I don’t seem to be able to create a child template for screen.min.css.

Is there something, I can do?

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1. Christian Wach January 4, 2017 at 6:20 am
  
  Hi Ralph, you should be able to override anything in the default stylesheet by being more specific in targeting the element in your child theme’s stylesheet. A CSS tutorial will explain the mechanics of specificity to you – it’s a bit complex to explain in a comment reply.
  
  Out of interest, what is your issue with the button overlapping the text? There should be plenty of screen space where it doesn’t do so.
  
  Cheers, Christian
  
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  1. Ralph Bloch January 13, 2017 at 6:55 am
    
    Hi Christian,
    
    The comment button is floating, so when users scroll, it obstructs parts of the rightmost body text. I notice that the comment press website doesn’t display the comment button. How did you get rid of it? Also, where is the CSS tutorial, you are referring to?
    
    Thanks, Ralph
    
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    1. Christian Wach January 13, 2017 at 8:10 am
      
      This website currently uses the “Modern” theme supplied with the plugin. I’d still be interested to hear why you think the button in the “Flat” theme is problematic.
      
      I don’t know any particularly good ones, but I’m sure you can search for a relevant tutorial.
      
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Ralph Bloch January 24, 2017 at 6:36 am

Hi Christian,

I solved the button problem in the Flat them by moving them to the right, so the comment button no longer obscures text.

But now I have a real problem: Being obsessive compulsive I W3 validated the html on all 135 pages of my online eBook.After a few minor corrections, they all passed – except two! Both showed the error:

Error: No p element in scope but a p end tag seen.

Both occurred with the first of two captioned illustrations (the only two pages with two illustrations). The source code reads:

<!– cp_caption_start –><img class=”size-full wp-image-2888″ src=”http://www.stuehlingen.online/Book/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/BusColAbs-e1485171019750.png” alt=”Business mix, absolute” width=”400″ height=”282″ />Figure 8. Absolute commercial pattern of 34 most active merchants.<!– cp_caption_end –>

And it is the unpaired at the end that triggers the error.

In the page editor it looks thus:

[caption id="attachment_2888" align="alignleft" width="400"]<img class=”size-full wp-image-2888″ src=”http://www.stuehlingen.online/Book/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/BusColAbs-e1485171019750.png” alt=”Business mix, absolute” width=”400″ height=”282″ /> Figure 8. Absolute commercial pattern of 34 most active merchants.[/caption]

Without a trailing .

In the WP forum they are telling me that the problem must be due to the plugin.

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1. Christian Wach January 24, 2017 at 8:50 am
 
 Hi Ralph, can you email me please? I have an idea why this might be happening, but I’d like to see what the editor really shows and how the caption is placed in the flow of the text. Comments are a bit of an unwieldy way to manage this!
 
 Cheers, Christian
 
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Ralph Bloch January 24, 2017 at 10:06 am

Hurray, I found a kludge! On both pages, the image was the first element. When I precede the image with “ the error disappears. The display does not change. If, however, I only insert it doesn’t help.

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1. Christian Wach January 24, 2017 at 12:39 pm
 
 Thanks for the workaround and for finding the bug. I can confirm that a captioned image as the first item does indeed break the markup. It is actually a (presumably unintentional) quirk of the WordPress wp_autop() function that results in this error – so in a sense it’s not the “fault” of CommentPress, but it’s also not the “fault” of WordPress either! Quirks are unavoidable. I will post a fix for this in due course.
 
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William April 20, 2018 at 12:06 pm

Hi, when exporting my commentpress site data to import into another site, it seems the database comment field ‘comment_signature’ is not included in the export. This means that on the new site the comments have lost their links to the correct paragraph. Are you able to fix this? Do you know of a work around? Thanks!

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1. Christian Wach April 20, 2018 at 12:11 pm
  
  Hi William – please read this support thread for the solution.
  
  Cheers, Christian
  
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Tara Carlisle May 1, 2018 at 4:22 pm

Hi,

The comment form only displays on the home page, not on the other pages. So when one clicks on the icon to add a comment on page 2 and after, the form does not open to allow someone to add a comment.

We would like to use CommentPress to co-author a white paper for a grant we received.

Tara Carlisle

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1. Christian Wach May 1, 2018 at 4:53 pm
  
  You will need to enable comments on the other pages. On the “Edit Page” screen, you may need to tick the “Discussion” box in the “Screen Options” slide-down panel at the top of the page. The box will allow you to enable comments.
  
  (For some time now, WordPress has disabled discussion on pages by default. IIRC it was because for the majority of sites, pages are static, merely informational things. Not so in CommentPress, of course.)
  
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Anon April 11, 2019 at 4:14 pm

Hi,

I am having difficulty with the right column on my website.

For some reason, instead of having a scroll bar, all of the text is visible and eventually overflows beneath the main column.

Also, the tab buttons in the right column seem like default buttons instead of the nice ones on this website.

Do you have any suggestions for what might cause this or how to solve it?

Cheers

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andy April 20, 2011 at 10:13 am

Hi guys,
loving commentpress – thanks for all the hard work!
is there any way to use a child theme of CP and still get the commentpress options? i can understand that its not possible to support other themes, but it seems counter-intuative not to support child themes, as it means i have to hack the commentpress theme itself to make any changes.
any suggestions on how i can get round this?
thanks 🙂

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