Old Guy’s Scripts

Addon features (mods)

• Add a “comment teaser” to your website.
• Add a recent comments list.
• Use TalkBack for reviews and ratings.
• Place comments listing and entry form on separate pages.
• Add a comments RSS feed.

Spam checking

• Optional: comments checked for spam using the Akismet service.
• Optional: a captcha using the reCAPTCHA service. (as of version 2.3)
• Optional: spam words filtering
• See the user guide for more information.

General

• Extensive configuration options to control appearance and function.
• Comments are stored in a mySQL database.
• Easy to add to web pages.
• Comments on any number of web pages.
• Customizable error and messages page.
• Language file allows customization of all text.
• Valid XHTML 1.0
• Comprehensive HTML User guide.
• On-going support, development and improvement.

Comments Pages

• Search comments (as of version 2.3)
• Visitors can reply to a specific comment.
• Admin can edit and delete comments.
• Configurable date formatting.
• Easy to change styling via CSS.
• Customizable templates.
• Can display poster’s Gravatar.
• Images in comments (if allowed) are displayed in a “lightbox” {example}.
• Allows multiple templates for different layouts on different pages.
• Prior/next page buttons, visitor can set number of comments per page
• Visitor can set sort order: newest first or oldest first
• Buttons insert HTML tags into comments if HTML is allowed.
• Comment preview.
• Smiley codes (e.g. “:)”) converted to emoticons. Use the supplied emoticon buttons or your own.
• Visitor can subscribe to all followup comments or only replies to his post.
• By page, new comments can be closed with existing comments still being displayed.
• Optional bad words filtering. Bad words are replaced with a character string of your choice (e.g. bleep)

Comments Processing

• Author name and email automatically filled in if poster is a returning visitor.
• Configurable time period before allowing another post.
• Javascript validation of required form fields for efficiency.
• Server side re-validation of form fields for security.
• Moderation triggered if:
  - Moderate all comments option is set.
  - Maximum number of links (configurable) is exceeded.
  - Akismet (if enabled) flags comment as spam.
  - Cannot connect to Akismet server.
  - A spam word appears in the comment.
  
• URL’s entered in comments are converted to hyperlinks.
• Email notice to new subscriber for subscription confirmation.
• Email notice to subscribers when a new comment is entered on page to which they are subscribed.
• Configurable time offset—assign your local time to comments instead of server time.
• Duplicate comment check.
• Banned IP check.

Administration

• Email notice to administrator if a database error occurs.
• Email notice to administrator when new comment is entered.
  
• Admin report panels:
  - Comments by page.
  - Recent comments (last n days).
  - Unapproved comments.
  - Spam comments (with delete all option).
  - Subscribers by email address or page.
  - Banned IP’s.
  - Edit, delete and reply actions for each comment.
  - Reply via email.
• Maintenance panels:
  - Configuration settings – customize comments layout
  - Optimize database.
  - Backup database.
  - Purge comments older than n days