Comments on: Last freaking post (with updates! until I’m done)

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:23:35 +0000

Ooh, no, I hate Haloscan with the heat of ten thousand suns. Sites with Haloscan often never load at all on my computer — I don’t know why.

However, there are a few other commenting scripts out there with all sorts of features that look interesting (Disqus, something else I can’t remember right now), and I am keeping them in mind in case the new site gets unruly. Speaking of which… (See the top of the post.)

By: rickc1

rickc1 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:12:43 +0000

Have you considered using Haloscan for comments?

By: Scribe of Slog

Scribe of Slog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:02:54 +0000

How odd. I may have to try to set up those links on one of my Core sites to see if they work for me, or if the forum moderator who said Core doesn’t have those functions was indeed correct.

Anyway, as I said via e-mail, these days EE is really more of a site-building engine with blogging capabilities, than a blogging platform.

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:58:39 +0000

Just checked — yup, it’s there, the member trigger word is “member.” It was already set up, in fact.

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:50:26 +0000

I’ll email you. I have to take a look at that member-trigger-word thing — not sure if I set that up.

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:48:53 +0000

I do get a page showing my member list, which right now just consists of me.

By: Scribe of Slog

Scribe of Slog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:12:09 +0000

Found the one other file that needs to be changed to reflect a changed trigger word, as explained here. I still don't know why they require a special template to be hard-coded like that.

By: Scribe of Slog

Scribe of Slog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:08:55 +0000

Unless I pirated the one that came with my paid license to put on those other sites

FTR, I distinctly do not remember having done so.

By: Scribe of Slog

Scribe of Slog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:05:33 +0000

…and if you change that word you need to change it everywhere it appears in your templates.

I was just looking up another place where I seem to remember once before also having to change the trigger word but instead happened on a very recent forum thread at ExpressionEngine.com where it is claimed Core doesn’t include the member module.

Unless I pirated the one that came with my paid license to put on those other sites, I think either somebody’s got it wrong at EE, or something has changed very recently.

When you go to CP Home › Admin › Members and Groups › View Members what happens?

By: Scribe of Slog

Scribe of Slog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:57:11 +0000

I can’t figure out how to get a register/login-logout/view your profile link to work.

What does the link code look like? E-mail me if you'd prefer. On my site the link code looks like this: Register: /register}"> Login: /login}"> You set the member "trigger" word in the control panel at CP Home › Admin › Members and Groups › Membership Preferences in the last line on that page.