Blogger has just overhauled its comment system. And an overhaul it certainly is. The work done by the team is simply fantastic. This new system now comes with:
- option to show or hide the original blog post that the comments relate to.
- display of any comments that have already been made.
- and the profile photos of the comment authors too (setting based.)
- comments in pop-up window (setting based again.)
And the biggest plus- the identity options! Post as a blogger user, anonymous or any 'other' user.
The new Blogger comment system enables commenting in a new window.
All previous comments along with the Blogger Profile picture are displayed neatly to the left.
UPDATE:
Current Blogger templates on your blogs will, however, behave slightly differently. The comments link which is below every post, like
takes you first to the individual post's archived page and from there you click on Post a comment to go the newly designed Comment posting page.
- option to show or hide the original blog post that the comments relate to.
- display of any comments that have already been made.
- and the profile photos of the comment authors too (setting based.)
- comments in pop-up window (setting based again.)
And the biggest plus- the identity options! Post as a blogger user, anonymous or any 'other' user.
The new Blogger comment system enables commenting in a new window.
All previous comments along with the Blogger Profile picture are displayed neatly to the left.
UPDATE:
Current Blogger templates on your blogs will, however, behave slightly differently. The comments link which is below every post, like
takes you first to the individual post's archived page and from there you click on Post a comment to go the newly designed Comment posting page.
Now, if you wish to override the post-page and jump directly to the comment-posting page without reselecting a template (and thereby losing all the tweaks you made to it) , then you'll need to make a minor change in your existing template as shown below:
<a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemPermaLinkURL$>#comments">
<$BlogItemCommentCount$>comments </a>
<a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemCommentCreate$>"
<$BlogItemCommentFormOnClick$>><$BlogItemCommentCount$>comments </a>
<$BlogItemCommentCount$>comments </a>
<a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemCommentCreate$>"
<$BlogItemCommentFormOnClick$>><$BlogItemCommentCount$>comments </a>
The replacement of text in red with the one in grey will simply update your template and so, when one clicks on the comments link, he'll be directed straight to the comment posting page without having to go the archived post page.
Comments
It is indeed awesome but i can't bear to lose all my haloscan comments.
So i'm sticking with haloscan until one day the company collapses or something.
Oh well.
Cheers
But yeah, comment editing is certainly a desirable feature. And so are trackbacks and post categories.
I don't think that would be possible with the current Blogger system.
Ah well, I still prefer this over the old system, so again, thanks for the tweak. Good blog you got here.
Cheers