hot or not wordpress plugin

01 Feb

Posted by aRo` as php, software

This wordpress plugins adds a radio button to the comment form so users can tell if a post is hot or not. Depending on the value that is chosen, another css class is added to comment .

Download the plugin

Download the Hot Or Not plugin here
Unzip this file into the /wp- content/plugins/ folder.

Adding the radionbutton group to the comment form.

This radiobutton has to be added in the < form > tag of the comments. You can find this somewere at the bottom of your "template/comments.php" file. It looks somethin like this.

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HTML:

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

You have to paste the code below in that form.

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HTML:

<p>

<input name="hon_group" type="radio" /> Yes

<input name="hon_group" CHECKED="true" type="radio" /> no

</p>

Dynamically add the class to the comment

In the beginning of that same file, there is a php foreach statement to print all comments.

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HTML:

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

A bit further in the file you have to add the hotornot class to the listitem:

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HTML:

li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" class="<?php print $comment->css ?>">

Activate the plugin

Active the plugin in the admin "Plugins" screen in wordpress.

Change the css style of your comments

You can do this in the template/style.css file.

.vote_hot {style.css (line 692)
background-color:#CDEEAB;
border-top:1px dotted #006600;
color:#006600;
}

.vote_not {style.css (line 699)
background-color:#FFE0E0;
border-top:1px dotted #F5857E;
color:#AB0000;
}