When I post a comment on someone’s blog, I like it when a message appears saying something like, “Your comment has gone into the moderation cue. It will appear shortly,” or something like that. It frustrates me because I can’t get that to work on this blog. I found out it was because of the way the comments.php file was created with my current theme. With other themes, the moderation message appears as soon as a user submits a comment (e.g., the default theme – Kubrick). But with this theme, once you post a comment, the script returns you to the home page of the blog. You can see the moderation message if you open that particular blog entry, but otherwise, you have no idea where your comment went. As an obvious workaround, I posted a short moderation message at the bottom of the comment form, but that can go unseen.
So, I’m still looking for the perfect theme. It must be similar to what I have, because I really, really like the big picture at the top. I like the simplicity of the theme. But I’d really like it if, after posting a comment, a comment moderation message appeared. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about coding to modify the comments.php file to cause that to happen.
Does anyone else have any ideas on this? Any expert coders care to help me fix my problem?
You changed your blog theme. Is it solving the comment problem?
I guess it is.
Yes, it is working. This particular theme is the default theme (Kubrick). Changing the header image is a bit more difficult with this theme. But the comment issue has been resolved.
Also, I like having a “recent comments” section on my blog but my old theme would not redirect you to the exact comment whereas this theme does. The old theme would just take you to the page the comment was on. That’s fine, but if there are lots of comments, you’ll have to scroll through them all to find the one you want to read.
But there are some things I don’t like about this theme. For instance, the navigation menu disappears on some pages. I prefer that the navigation menu stays intact on all pages.
Well I’m sorry that I can’t help you with the moderation code. I don’t even know what that is. But I sure like the big picture at the top as well. I really like that kitty picture.