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Better handling of comment list and comment form display

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Derek Hogue

First, I suggest making your comment form and comment list markup into distinct templates, which accept a single embedded variable (“weblog”). This allows you to reuse these templates wherever you allow comments on your site. Say these are located at embeds/comment_list and embeds/comment_form.

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Managing comments

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Derek Hogue

Just learned this from a client(!). To view a list of all comments on your site, from the Edit screen, leave the keywords field blank, choose “Comments” from the “Search In” dropdown, and search.  You can also use the Weblog filter to view comments from one specific weblog.

(This is actually in

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Use private comments in your templates

Posted on June 01, 2009 by johnniefp

We all put comments in all of our code don’t we… no, ah well.

I’m sure your familiar with the <!—comment—> structure in HTML but what if you wanted your comments in your template to not be in the source of your HTML.

Start using the EE comment tag:
{!-- this comment will not end up in your source

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