Add Comment Titles to MT4 Blogs (MT Hacks)

Add Comment Titles to MT4 Blogs

Comment Titles is a plugin for Movable Type that adds a "Title" field for comments. Commenters can (optionally) add a Title to their comment. Comment Titles can be viewed and edited from the admin interface.

Screenshot

Template Tags

Comment Titles provides one new template tag:

<MTCommentTitle> - This tag will display the the title for the comment in context. If the comment does not have a title, this tag will output nothing.

Requirements

MT 4.01+

Note: Due to a bug in MT 4.0 that I found while developing this plugin, Comment Titles will not work with 4.0. You need 4.01 (or newer).

Installation

Download and extract the zip file. Upload the contents of the 'plugins' directory to the 'plugins' directory of your Movable Type installation.
Add a "title" field to your comment form. If you are using the default MT4 templates, go to Design>Templates, then "Template Modules" from the right side of the page. Then choose the "Comment Form" template. You can place the field anywhere between the <form and </form> tags, but I recommend after the URL field. Below the "comment-form-url" div, add:
<div id="comment-form-title"> <label for="comment-title">Title</label> <input id="comment-title" name="title" size="30" value="<MTIf name="comment_preview_template"><$MTCommentTitle$></MTIf>" /> </div>

Next, display the Comment Title on your published page by adding the <MTCommentTitle> tag to your Entry (Individual Archive) template. If you are using the default MT4 templates, then go to Design>Templates, then "Template Modules" from the right side of the page. Then choose the "Comment Detail" template. You can decide where you want to display the title, but one option is to place it right before the comment body (before the comment-content div):

<MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTCommentTitle"><div class="comment-content"> <strong><$MTCommentTitle$></strong> </div></MTIfNonEmpty>

Note that in the above example, I have used the MTIfNonEmpty tag. By doing so, the HTML for the title will only be displayed if a title exists for that comment. This avoids extra blank lines and other markup when comments don't have titles.

Publish your entry pages and you are done.

Get Comment Titles

Commercial License - $97.00

Personal License - Free

Comment Titles is free for personal, non-commercial use.

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As always, comments and suggestions are welcome.

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