Implementing Comments

Of course, setting preferences does very little good without setting up your weblog's templates to actually collect and present comments in the first place. Fortunately, Movable Type's default templates come ready to display comments in a couple of different ways.

We've got that starting point to work from, so let's go ahead and deconstruct both methods to see how they work. That way you'll understand the concepts even if you have decided to create your own templates for your weblog.

Inserting Comments Inline

We'll start by looking at the comments that are presented inline in the Individual Entry Archive template. As we've already seen, this template is used to create the pages that present the individual entries themselves. ...

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