allow viewers to comment

manypets

I'm setting up my first album, and I want visitors to be able to add comments to each image. I thought that "allow comments" being checked (for the album and for the image itself) would do it, but there is nowhere for anyone to add a comment when I view the album. Is this not a feature, or am I missing something?

kagutsuchi

To allow visitors to comment, you need to do three things:

In the options for the `comment_form` plugin, enable the options to allow comments on whatever items you want and make sure that "Only members can comment" is disabled.

You must have "Allow comments" enabled for each item you want.

And lastly, your theme must have comments enabled as well.

If you still find that it's not working, it would be helpful to us if you provided a link to your site.

manypets

Thanks! It's perfect.

goodpasture

I can't seem to find these options anywhere. Can you please help me with this same problem? http://fancythatcake.com

thanks,
Jon

Blue Dragonfly

That link makes me want cake :-)

The things Kagutsuchi said you needed to do are all from the Admin page. Your theme (ZenPage) supports this, so the steps you need to take are:

1. On the Plugins tab of the admin page, enable the comment_form plugin.

2. On the Options tab, go to the Plugins sub-tab. Or select the "Change plugin options" link from the Plugins tab above in step 1. On this page, set the options as desired.

3. On the Albums tab, if you want albums to be commentable (this means commenting on the album, as opposed to a specific image within the album), then ensure "Allow Comments" is checked for each desired album.

4. On the Images sub-tab of any Album you want images to be commentable in, then ensure that "Allow Comments" is checked for the image. I'm not sure if this always defaults to enabled, or only when the plugin is set to allow image comments, so you may have to do this for a lot of images, or you may not.

That should be all there is to it!