Tranny

Yeah man, W3 is officially abandonware. It has not been updated in several months, and no support is provided. It has serious bugs, and returns error messages in PHP7. I had the same problem you are having and worse – forcing an old cached version of the page on logged in users, ignoring properly set cookie, making it look as if the user was not logged in, preventing them from leaving comments. I had to get rid of W3 because of it. Unfortunately, no other caching plugin seems to deliver comparable performance – nowhere near. But I run a very busy site with a lot of user activity, so these issues W3 was causing I could not overlook. Now I don’t have these issues, but my server load is significantly higher.

Does it still work by way of a cookie that is set on a person’s computer so if one uses several accounts, if they log out of one and log in to another, they will see the links to edit comments made by the first account? Similarly, if one logs out of their account on a desktop and logs in on a smartphone within time allocated for editing, would edit link not be available anymore?

Hello Jason,

thanks for your response. You mentioned plugins recommended on the settings screen, but the screenshot of your options page doesn’t show any such recommendations. What am I missing?

That’s pretty cool. What would I need to do to retain 2016 round avatars, and decrease spacing between borders so more space is available for comments, and less for unused empty space (about 20 pixels on the left, and probably only about 3 pixels or so on the right)? Otherwise 5th level comments would be reduced to just a narrow column of text.

If you could provide an option to have child comments encapsulated within a parent comment by way of a thin border, that may be an easier option to implement, and would go a long way to making comments easier to follow on busy sites. I will likely become a paying customer when such option becomes available.

Changing those settings did not help. I’ll need to get someone to look at the log files, as I’m not a server tech and don’t know what I’m doing.

First of all, let me say again that you got a very nice plugin, and I applaud you to creating this awesomeness. I don’t have the best communication skills, so I probably come across incorrectly, but this has not changed. I think this is a fantastic plugin and I can’t say anything other than all good things about the coders who made it. Furthermore, your dedicated and speedy responses to concerns raised here are remarkable – it speaks volumes about your company, and certainly reassures interested parties that should such need for support arise, you got them covered.

What I like about your plugin is the ability to allow members to edit their comments, the ability for the admin to set the time limit for editing of comments, and the ability to vote comments up or down, and to sort them by most upvoted. This is what makes me want to use your plugin. Things like social links or subscription options I would not use.

But what I would like to see is the ability to use the plugin with website’s native styling. Right now you are basically forcing your own styling on the user.

Additional possible new features to consider (though lack of those is not a deal breaker for me, but would be most welcome), is the ability to only have an upvote button, and no downvote, and a widget that would allow to display either the most upvoted comments of all time, or the most upvoted comments during a time period specified by the admin (such as during the last 24 hours, to show yesterday’s most popular comment).

Also, the possibility to convert video links from YouTube, LiveLeak, Vimeo, etc into iframe embeds in the comments would be fantastic.

Your remarkable dedication to answer all questions on these forums make me want to buy some of your pro plugins ??

Your plugin comes with many nice features, but your styling is not usable for an active site. I can see it working well on a site that gets 2 to 3 comments per post, but if each of your posts gets hundreds of comments, with dozens of child comments that have dozens of child comments each, and each of those child comments has child comments, etc – then members wouldn’t be able to follow the structure easily, would get lost in the messy pile of comments, wouldn’t know anymore which comment they are replying to and would get frustrated beyond words.

So in other words, I can only change colors and backgrounds, but I will lose my styling of comments because it would be overridden by your plugin’s styling, correct?

If that’s the case, this basically closes the door to the plugin for me, so I would just make a suggestion to perhaps consider in one of your future releases to allow an option to inherit current theme’s styling.

My comments look a certain way on my website, because of my own styling of comments. My question is, which I keep asking over and over, if I activated your plugin, would it ignore my custom styling and force its own styling on comment section, or would it honor the native styling? I don’t how else to ask this anymore? Will your plugin override my styling with plugin’s styling for the comment section?

I’ve enabled Enable when web host requires “Mail From” strictly tied to site. I’ll see if there is any change.

What do I look for in the log files?

That’s correct. Make it about 150 people per day in my case. All appearing to come from the same sender – website’s name, and the same email address – website’s email, as appearing on WP’s general settings page.

I can see sender’s name and email address which he/she provided while entering the message, within the message, but they are overridden by WP’s details in the email’s head, so they all appear to come from the same sender. I have not changed anything, it started after the latest update.

On Basic Settings tab, I have just regular text in “Welcome introduction”, under “Email To” I have one email – mine, and under “Email Subject Prefix:” I have a three word subject text. The rest of the fields are blank.

On advanced tab, “Confirmation Email Settings” is not selected, nothing under “Redirect Settings” is selected. The only selected options are:

1. Enable an HTML anchor tag on the form POST URL
2. Enable to prevent double click on submit button
3. Enable sender information in email footer
4. Enable checking DNS records for the domain name when checking for a valid email address

Nothing else is selected. What is going on with my mail form?

Hello,

thank you for your reply. It didn’t really answer my question, though – would your plugin retain my custom styling for comments, or would I have to style it all over again in your settings to achieve the same look?

Since there are way too many settings, which ones should I share?