Blog comments
The comment module of the Blog Plugin has an advanced spam protection mode nad Gravatar support
Blog comments can be edited at "Quicklinks" -> "Post Comments". Furthermore they can directly accessed and deleted from the blog edit start page for easy deleting of comment spam.
Comment mode
There are 3 different comment modes for each post.
- Allow comments for 1 month (default)
- Always allow comments
- No comments allowed
If you want to change the mode of a post, you currently have to use "Quicklinks" -> "Posts". To change the default value, you currently have to alter your db-table-definition with the following command:
ALTER TABLE `bxcms_blogcomments`
CHANGE `comment_status` `comment_status` TINYINT( 4 ) DEFAULT '2' NOT NULL
Spam protection
The spam protection module puts the submitted comments into 3 categories, the first one - "Approved Comments" - are immediatly shown on the page. The other ones - "Moderated" and "Rejected" - are not shown and deleted after some time (14 and 3 days). The difference between them is, that comments which are to almost 100% spam go into rejected comments (too many links and/or in the blacklist) and comments, which eventually may be spam go into moderated comments. Trackbaks are also always moderated currently. Bitflux maintains a list of blacklisted URLs, which is quite effective. The system automatically fetches this list every 3 hours. You also get an email for each comment. The default values are not changeable (except if you hack the PHP code), but we will soon make that more configureable