Hi! I am upgrading to 3.0 and I use the simplecomments plug-in. What should I do to make sure it works in 3.0?

This worked for me:

http://www.milbertus.com/archives/2004/05/003228.php

Great! It worked for me too. Thanks so much!! Have you discovered a way to get Typekey to work with it?

Never had a typekey problem.

You need to edit your comments templates a bit, but it works as advertised.

Hmm. Can you point me to the documentation. When I peruse the other comments on this site, I get the impression that typekey is in alpha and that only a handful of folks have figured out how to implement it. What am I missing? Fyi, I'm using the simplecomments plug-in.

Maybe I'm further ahead than I think. I inserted my typekey key in the config as requested. Checked the appropriate radio boxes. Now, when a new commenter posts a comment, it doesn't immediately post to the site. Instead, it's held for my approval or rejection, which I decide on the mt admin page.

But I thought there was more to this. Like an email to me, and a typekey form presented to the commenter which I've uet to see.

There is both more and less.

The more is that those features exist.

The less is that you can replace your all your comment tags with one:

"MTSimpleComments"

That puts in a whole comment form, complete with Typekey registration.

Thanks. I'm aware of what simplecomments offers. Unless I'm mistaken, the balance of the typekey implementation seems to be vaporware at this point.

What exactly are you referring to when you ask about "typekey implementation"?

TypeKey is up and running quite successfully. Unless I'm missing something, everything you're asking about is working - you may just not have set up correctly, especially if you're using your old templates and have not adapted them for 3.0D. It's not about the code used to display the comments (like SimpleComments does), but how the comment is submitted, the forms used, sign-in links provided.

If you want to find out how it all works, I would suggest you take a look at the default templates, specifically the Individual Entry, Comment Listing, Commemt Preview, etc templates, and check out the new template code that is required. Create a new blog with the default templates, even, and enable Registered comments, and do some testing. Searching the forum will undoubtedly offer you even more information.

And I believe the tag hipnerd intended to refer to was MTCommentFields, not MTSimpleComments, which is a plugin tag.

Thanks. I've taken your suggestion and done a full install on a nother server. Unfortunately, none of the front-end graphics came up and I'm stuck there now.

Actually, i'm stuck in so many places at the same time, I can't see straight. A couple of days ago, I got stuck migrating to mysql (i went back to berkeleydb for the time being.)

Today, I got stuck trying to figure out why posting comments in my mozilla browser literally freezes the system, whilst doing the same thing in explorer wroks smoothly (albeit without sending me off to typekey to register.)

Arg. Brain fart.

This is the tag you need:

"MTCommentFields"

I don't know what I was thinking. Too tired, I guess.

Yes. The whole thing hangs on the code in the new templates. I had tried an upgrade to the old site whilst retaining my old templates. Bad idea. Thanks to you both.

I tried to do an import the old (upgraded from 2.63 to 3) data into the new (fresh install) site and it hung on the 24th entry. Nor have i been able to purge the db to start over. I'm wondering if this is all because I failed to re-install simplecomments before importing, or failed to purge the new site of three test entries. What a mess.