Coment Preview for WordPress 1.2
Mark Ghosh 
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I wrote a very small addition to WordPress 1.2 which lets you have comment previews. The install is very simple and it helps in a couple of ways:
- Lets your commenters know what their final comment is going to look like
- Might prevent comment spammers
Example here: http://proc.homeip.net/testwp
Download here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/wp-comment-preview.zip
Please post bugs/suggestions.
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Very nifty, and easily implemented. Thanks!
[Reply] Brian (1 comments.) — 05/21/2004 @ 2:54 amI note the preview isn’t running here…
Had to add a stripslashes to your preview output as follows:
?php echo stripslashes($comment_new); ?
and in the hidden values, as follows:
?php echo stripslashes (htmlentities($comment)); ?
It keptputting backslashes in things like “don’t” otherwise (and passed them to the post, too).
[Reply] Kathy K (2 comments.) — 05/24/2004 @ 2:52 pm
Forgot to say:
[Reply] Kathy K (2 comments.) — 05/24/2004 @ 2:55 pmThank you for writing it. Adding a few stripslashes is nothing to the trouble I’d have had trying to do it myself!
Fixed
[Reply] Mark (58 comments.) — 05/24/2004 @ 7:54 pmThe above trackback is from me.
[Reply] mikelu (1 comments.) — 06/7/2004 @ 8:12 amI had some suggestions for this hack:
1. use
htmlspecialchars()so that double-byte characters can be correctly showed up in the preview page.2.
apply_filters()to$author_newcould be$author_new = apply_filters('comment_author', $author);and to$comment_newcould be$comment_new = apply_filters('comment_text', $comment_new);Good ideas, maybe in a newer release.
[Reply] Mark (58 comments.) — 06/7/2004 @ 2:58 pmI’ve made some of the changes that mikelu suggests above, fixed the problems where slashes weren’t stripped from usernames/URLs, made it so that the comment is ‘texturized’ (smart quotes, etc.) during preview, and fixed a couple of the layout issues. My hack of the source code is available through my name link on this post.
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[Reply] xZx — 09/15/2004 @ 8:19 amThe example link no longer works.
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Thanks!
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