Guestbook function
Add a guest book to your xtgem site
Visitors can comment on your site using the guestbook
The guestbook block
You can only create one guestbook per site
Only the sites logged in admin can reply to posts in the guestbook no other users will see the reply links
Post deletions are accomplished using the Guestbook comments link in the Comments tab in your sites control panel
There is a setting in site options for commenting restrictions in the guestbook
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None
guest posting allowed
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Email input required
As far as I know all this does is add the email field it does nothing with the data
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Logged in users only
Only registered and logged in users can comment
The guestbook uses the same classes pagination and markup as blog comments
Logged in xtgem users will post using their community name and avatar (or gravatar if no profile image is set and they have one linked to their email address) with a link to their profile
The main settings are :
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Guestbook entries per page
How many entries to show on each page
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Comment sorting
newest first or oldest first
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Allow html
Allows a very limited amount of html to be used in entries
not recommended
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Format
The format for the time stamp selecting ago uses a Time ago format
The timezone is set automatically to the visitors timezone or their countries main timezone as a fallback
Using the Code editor you can also set
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comments_disable_links="1"
Links in the comments will be displayed as text only
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badwords="comma,separated,list,of,banned,words"
banned words are replaced with *****
In the more options you can set your own text for :
- Guestbook
- This Guestbook has no comments - be the first one !
- Post a comment
- Name
- Comment
- post
- You are posting as
- Please login in order to post comments
- Login
- Signup
- Please confirm your email before posting
- Report spam
- Hidden comment
- Show all comments
- Reply
