Imagine my surprise when I finally got around to testing comments on this live site and found they weren’t working at all. Then imagine my confusion of them working on my test site just fine, with all the same settings.
My apologies for anyone who has tried to submit a comment. For what it’s worth, you should be able to do so now.
Seems with the settings I had (only allowing comments from logged-in users) you can type in a comment but after submission you get a blank page.
Sigh.
I’ve changed the settings to not require a login for comment submissions. Hopefully I’ll be able to take a closer look at some point to see why things weren’t working.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:10pm
Speaking of WP and comments, I’ve been asked recently how feasible it’d be to restrict comments on a WP blog to those with a valid UW NetID. It’s intriguing, but a search on WP’s plug-ins directory revealed nothing for “pubcookie” or “netid.” This might be an opportunity to build something for the UW community. Think it’d be possible without too much trouble?
November 5th, 2009 at 3:47pm
This page should give you the information you need:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/wordpress.html
Note that I’m still having problems with posting comments while logged in, the opposite of what was happening before.