That’s actually a trick question. Comments are already enabled but you need to add a few things to your templates to display the comments and form.
You can do this many ways but these are the steps we recommend.
1) Add a template called ‘Comments’. This will be for displaying existing comments and displaying the form to leave a new one
2) Add a template called ‘Comment’. This will be for displaying an individual comment
3) Add a template called ‘New Comment’. This is the form for leaving a new comment
4) In your article template, include the new ‘Comments’
There’s sample code for each step at the end of this post.
But first, a few technical details.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
This post will focus on a key task you’ll encounter while working with any website: linking. To make linking as easy as possible, Hot Ink provides a series of Liquid filters that will build links to any Hot Ink page. Hot Ink linking helpers will automatically decide which text to use as the link text unless you’ve provided specific text as an argument. (more…)
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
If you’ve been working with Hot Ink for a while, you may have noticed some overlap between the use of the terms “section” and “category”. In Hot Ink your newspaper can have many categories, those categories can have many subcategories, those subcategories can have their own subcategories and so on. We use the term “section” to refer specifically to your top-level categories, those that are not subcategories of any other category.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
You can access your Hot Ink blogs from 2 different locations. The first is on the blog index page as the array variable ‘blogs’, the other is through the newspaper drop as ‘newspaper.blogs’. This can be used in combination with the ‘newspaper.latest_from_blog’ hash to run through a list of each blog and the latest posts in each blog.
For more information on how to work with Liquid data types like hashes and array, read: http://wiki.github.com/tobi/liquid/liquid-for-designers
Blog entries are available through the Article drop, with one added variable, an ‘entry.blogs’ array of all the blogs this entry is belongs to. In all but a few rare cases, you can access the entry’s blog data using the syntax ‘entry.blogs.first’. (more…)
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Issues represent the printed editions of your newspaper. You aren’t obligated to use issues to organize your content, but it does help readers navigate your site, especially those who are looking for an article that appeared in a certain issue of your newspaper. Issues are special; they can have an attached PDF.
Issue are generally accessed through the newspaper.latest_issues array, newspaper.latest_issue or through the “issues” array on an issues index page template.
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