HANDLING COMMENTS IN DRUPAL

Drupal Essentials

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Who is this for?• New to Drupal?

• Starting a new Drupal site!

• Inherited a new Drupal site and want to know more about configuration

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training.acquia.com/events

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In this demo• For total beginners to

Drupal configuration

• Comment configuration

• Display of comments

• Modules to improve comment moderation

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Comments: Out of the box

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Demo• Adding a comment. • Turning on comments for a content type.• Setting permissions.• Review the comment queue.

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Per content type

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Comment configurationEnable the Comments module

Enable comments per content type

Configure permissions per role

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Closed??

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Comments• As an author you can open or close

comments per item of content.

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Comment form• Below the

content.• After showing

list of comments.

• This is configurable.

• Show reply form on another page as an option.

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Add fields

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Possibly Webform

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Comment queue

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Unapproved

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Check comment• Visible only if logged in

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Modules to improve Comments

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Comment Notify

https://drupal.org/project/comment_notify19Wednesday, February 12, 14

Rules scheduler

http://drupalize.me/videos/introducing-rules-scheduler

• Close comments after a period of time.

http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/doug-hercules/2013/01/give-your-comments-shelf-life

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Schedule based on date

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CAPTCHA +

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Honeypot

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Services

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Panels

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Comment theming

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Default node layout

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Node template

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Per node layout

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Panels

Override display of nodeOverride display of node

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Disqus

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Disqus• Advantages:• Hand over moderation. • Login verification w facebook, G+ etc

• Disadvantages: • You’re giving up all your comments and

user interaction.

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Disqus

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http://disqus.com/admin/drupal/35Wednesday, February 12, 14

Permissions

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Mollom

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Mollom

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Statistics• Shows you “Ham” versus “Spam”

By Douglas Muth (CC BY-SA 2.0) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmuth/8180972354/ 39Wednesday, February 12, 14

Another example• Spamtastic!

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Mollom Configuration1. Download and Install the module

2. Account keys connect you to Mollom server

3. Set permissions for users

• Which user roles can bypass Mollom protection?

4. Configure Mollom for specific forms

• Select protection mode, either Text analysis or CAPTCHA-only

5. Set fall back optionshttp://mollom.com/tutorials/drupal-7

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https://drupal.org/project/mollom

1. Download

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http://mollom.com/

2. Sign up for keys

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3. Permissions

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Who can access?• Anonymous gets checked by Mollom

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4. Configure for forms

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5. Fall back settings

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Questions?

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