Because comments are social objects too June 25, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : social objects, blogs and community , trackbackApplying the theory of object centred sociality to a blog, it seems reasonable to deduce that the main social object is the blog post or article, ( that which used to be called a ‘blog’ before weblogs themselves took the name). Comments are logically subsidiary to articles but it can also be the case, especially with popular blogs, that each comment has the potential to become a social object around which new activities can be linked. So it was bothering me on this blog, ever since I upgraded to Wordpress 2 and adopted the regulus theme, that the permalinks to individual comments were broken.
Sometimes it’s necessary to deep link in to a particular comment in order to provide context for a further response or to show where a point has already been answered etc. Or a discussion elsewhere may wish to crosslink.
Not only that, but the “Recent Comments” section in my sidebar needs to go straight to them, which was not happening correctly.
I checked out the theme author’s site for bug reports, but he’s done a great job and moved on. The work is considered ‘finished’. So I’d have to get my hands dirty and do a bit of PHP coding myself. That’s not something I’m currently experienced in, but neither am I afraid to tackle new languages as long as there are some examples to follow.
In the end I added one line of code into the comment.php file and changed another. That’s it. Done.
I should now try and find a way to offer the modification back in case the author would like to incorporate it.
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