Archive for the “comments” category

How to Animate Threaded Comments with CSS and jQuery

by Jake Rocheleau on September 28, 2011


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With many social applications the use of threaded comments has become a staple in functionality. Webmasters today are focusing much more on user experience rather than content generation, and because of this there has been a rise in custom animation effects.

Below I’ll be going over a guide to building your own custom jQuery threaded comments from scratch. For the ease of our tutorial we won’t be using any backend system to actually store the data anywhere. This means no MySQL databases or PHP calls to a server – all comments are added in-page and will be lost upon page refresh.

jQuery Animated Comments Thread


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Well Designed Threaded Comments Sections in Webpages

by Jake Rocheleau on September 20, 2011


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Comments are an important part to any website community. Within the comments section visitors of your website may share their ideas, thoughts, and related links on topic with your content. It’s revolutionized the web 2.0 era!

Today we take comments as often commonplace wherever we go. Most blogs will include this feature by default. This also includes many of the popular open source projects such as Wordpress, MovableType, Blogger, and others. And although many of these are semi-closed off the most popular systems allow for customizations.

This is where threaded comments have begun. Including threads within the conversations allows for branching topics and more direct responses. Below I’ve gathered a hefty collection of threaded comment designs for your viewing pleasure. Feel free to leave your own comments as well if anything strikes your eye!


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Preventing anonymous comments in WordPress

by Joost de Valk on January 4, 2011

I value comments a lot, in fact, I look at the number and quality of comments on a post almost as much as I look at the number of shares, tweets and pageviews to determine how well a post was received. Recently I’ve done some posts that got a lot of annoying responses. Most of [...]

Preventing anonymous comments in WordPress is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast – Tweaking Websites.

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Display most recent comments with Gravatar

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on January 12, 2010

Is your blog popular? Do you got receive lots of comments from your readers? If yes, what about displaying the most recent comments in your blog sidebar (or elsewhere) to let your visitors knowing about the discussion?

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WordPress How to : Style comments of every roles

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on November 27, 2009

When you have lots of comments on your WordPress blog, it is a good thing to give a special style to admin comments, like I do on CatsWhoBlog.com. But what about being able to give special styles to editors, contributors and subscribers comments?

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WordPress How to : Style comments of every roles

Display registered users comment count on your WordPress blog

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on October 19, 2009

If your blog is private or have lots of registered users, it may be interesting to be able to display the number of comments posted by registered users. This is the purpose of this code.

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Display registered users comment count on your WordPress blog