Still working on that comments preview function
A great many commenters here have asked for a comments preview capability. I’ve tried before to find one that works, but there were a number of glitches.
Recently someone suggested this one. But alas, it seems to not be compatible with this blog design, although it’s a WordPress plug-in. For some reason, it gives an error message. So I (along with my trusty tech helper) am still working on the problem, but it hasn’t been fixed yet. Sorry for the inconvenience.
One other option to consider is an edit function for the poster after the fact. I suspect that most desire a preview option to do a quick scan in case of spelling errors.
Here is a google result. About half way down the page is a edit plug-in ( Edit Comments XT — Lets commentators edit their own comments. ). I have no idea if it works or not as I have no clue as to how the “sausage” is made for blogs, I simply enjoy reading it 😉
http://mashable.com/2007/07/24/wordpress-comments/
If you are unable to work in a preview option, then just declare:
Actually, I’m encouraging you to try to Get It Right The First Time!.
Consider it as “Evolution in action“.
(~Niven & Pournelle)
🙂
Neo, I agree with Paul_In_Houseton. Those of us who alwyas get our grammer and speling right the furst time don’t need a prevue pain. But thanks for the effort.
Thanks, Neo. The issue for me is not so much spelling but making sure that my HTML tags are OK. Example: insure that only the parts I want in boldface are are actually in boldface. Links, also.
Which reminds me of what a family friend, then in her sixties, said about the computer over a quarter century ago. ” The computer doesn’t do what I want it to do. It does what I tell it do do.”
IMHO, fewer and fewer blogs have the preview capability than before, which is a regression rather than a progression.
Wow. Weird. Works fine for me. Could be the rev. level of WP you’re on.
I just updated to a newer revision level and the strikeout feature suddenly stopped working.
It was pretty humorous because I had posted something after a celebration and the post showed it. Rather than just fix it I thought it would be funny to do strikeouts followed by the corrections. It looked fine on the screen but luckily I looked at it after updating and all the words were there
but the strikeout lines were goneand then it looked REALLY deranged.I agree with Mike. I love the edit function. For some reason having to do with personal limitations, I seldom spot my errors before I hit the enter button. Moments later they leap out and grab me by the throat.
I really don’t see the for a preview function, nor do I reely think thier neads to be a speling funchsion either.
S. Weasel has a nice preview plus edit. I think it’s AjaxEditComments. Free, or cheap.
How about a “Are you really really sure you want to present those choice words to the world?” button.
But I always like the surprise when one of my pithy, well reasoned comments goes up with misspellings and bonehead punctuation errors.