I pieced together a template from various sources to display comments in a threaded fashion. With the upgrade to MT 4.2, blogs@psu has supported replying to a specific comment, but the comment listing was still purely chronological. My blog now displays comments in a threaded fashion.
One drawback of a threaded view I can see is that it is not immediately clear what the most recent comments are, since they can appear anywhere in the stream. If you want to re-visit a blog entry on the web to see if any more comments have been added, it could be difficult if there are many comments.
What do you think?
P.S. To get this on your blog, replace your "comments" template with the contents of this file:
threaded_comments_display_mtml.txt
One drawback of a threaded view I can see is that it is not immediately clear what the most recent comments are, since they can appear anywhere in the stream. If you want to re-visit a blog entry on the web to see if any more comments have been added, it could be difficult if there are many comments.
What do you think?
P.S. To get this on your blog, replace your "comments" template with the contents of this file:
threaded_comments_display_mtml.txt
Figured I get this party started with the first comment!
Look! A reply!
3 deep..
I like this quite a bit. I am wondering if this could be part of either a new template set built specifically for teaching that promoted discussion in this way, or via a check box in the create entry area? Something that you could decide on a per entry or per blog basis ... This is very useful and imagine we'll have a decent part of the community adopt this -- if it is easy to implement. I'm not sure I'd want this to be on every post across my blog however.
One last question ... if I just add a comment using the open comment box (not replying to someone) I am guessing it places that comment at the bottom like a typical blog does?
If you comment without replying to any comment, your comment because what I would call a "root level" comment, appearing at the bottom of the list, not indented.
I like the idea of threaded comments, but you're right -- the drawback always is the difficulty of finding the newest posts. Of course, I have almost no interaction on my blogs, so I suppose this is a moot point for me.
As always, nicely done. I am really loving the fact that the blogs project is becoming more and more of an everyday reality for me. I want to do some tweeking of my own, but you folks have really done a great job. Thanks for all the work.
I suppose I could make the template display one view by default, but do a little dynamic html magic to allow users to switch from one view to another on the fly.
Actually, my recent comments widget on the right shows the recent comments for this entry in reverse chronological order.
Brad,
How do I make our blogs do this? Is there code I can add to the CSS?
Looks very promising.
:) Shannon Kennan
(GA for Larry Ragan)
Never mind! I just saw your p.s. Works great. Thanks!