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Better handling of comment list and comment form display
- Posted by Derek Hogue
- February 13, 2010
- 0 people have found this tip helpful.
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.
Then, use this code at the end of your entries, where you want comments to display:
{if comment_total > "0" || allow_comments}
{embed="embeds/comment_list" weblog="blog"}
{/if}
{if allow_comments}
{embed="embeds/comment_form" weblog="blog"}
{if:else}
<p class="no-comments">Comments are now closed.</p>
{/if}
This technique circumvents the generic “Commenting is not available in this weblog entry” message that appears when comments are closed. Note that this must be placed within your weblog:entries loop.
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