Use the magic of Statamic to power your comments

• Basic supports authentication of Statamic
• Gravatar Support
• Honeypot (inspired by Eric Barnes (https://github.com/ericbarnes/Statamic-email-form)

Copy first the commentatic.yaml.sample file from the plugin folder to _config/add-ons/commentatic.yaml

Then field the following parameters :

• username_field: Sets the field name containing the username (default: username)
• email_field: Sets the field name containing the email (default: email)
• comment_field: Sets the field name containing the comment (default: comment)
• comment_per_page: Number of comments per page
• comment_folder: Set the folder that will host your comments and located in the _content folder of your Statamic installation. Use a underscore before the folder name in order to hide the navigation (default: _comments)

Create a folder dedicated to the comments in the _content folder. Assign write permissions to the folder.

Use the {{commentatic:listing}} method in the same way as for the Statamic {{entries:listing}} method. The options are similar except that you don't have to specify the limit (defined in the config file).

{{ commentatic:listing }}
<div class="row">
 <div class="entry clearfix">
 {{ if no_results }}
 <h3>Hey! No comment. <a href="#post-comment">Why not post one ?</a></h3>
 {{ else }}
 <div class="span2">
 <div class="entry-meta">{{ username }}</div>
 <a href="{{ gravatar_profile }}">{{ avatar }}</a>
 <div class="entry-meta">Posted on <span class="date"> {{ last_modified format="F jS, Y H:i" }}</span>.</div>
 </div>
 <div class="span6">
 {{ content }}
 </div>
 </div>
 {{ endif }}
</div>
{{ /commentatic:listing }}

If you use the pagination, The use is similar to the method {{ entries:pagination }}. Except that you don't specify the limit parameter (defined in the config file).

To display the form for writing a comment, use the method {{ commentatic:form }}

Here are the options :

class : Sets the class name of the form tag id : Sets the ID of the form tag required : Sets the required fields. Separated by |.(no default but username, email and comment are always required) honeypot : activate or not the honeypot against bot (default : true)

Example of usage :

{{ commentatic:form honeypot="true" id="post-comment" }} {{ if error}}

{{ errors }}
• {{error}}
{{ /errors }}

 {{ if success }}
 <p>Your message has been sent!</p>
 {{ else }}
 {{ if logged_in }}
 <div class="clearfix">
 <p class="offset2">Logged in as <strong>{{ username }}</strong></p>
 </div>
 {{ else }}
 <p class="offset2">
 <label for="username">Username*:</label><br />
 <input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="{{ post:username }}" placeholder="Your Username">
 </p>
 <p class="offset2">
 <label for="from">Email*:</label><br />
 <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="{{ post:email }}" placeholder="Your email address">
 </p>
 {{ endif }}
 <p class="clearfix">
 <label class="span2" for="comment">Your comment:</label>
 <textarea class="span6" type="text" rows="5" name="comment" id="comment" placeholder="Your thoughts here !">{{ post:comment }}</textarea>
 </p>
 <p class="clearfix"><input class="offset2 btn" value="Send comment" type="submit"></p>
 {{ endif }}

{{ /commentatic:form }}

• {{ commentatic:comment_count }}: returns the number of comments of an folder
• {{ commentatic:comment_count folder="my_folder"}}: returns the number of comments for a specific folder
• {{avatar}}: print the user's gravatar if available
• {{gravatar_profile}}: print the user's gravatar profile link if available

• Better management publishing date and publishing time
• Better memory of users who have already posted (Cookie)
• Social login (Twitter, Facebook, etc...)
• Performance improvement (Something like caching)
• More tests!
• Code cleanup