Comment Text Hack

This is the section of code that has to be replaced to make the words "No Comments" or the number of comments on a post show as different text.

The original content pulls from a specific data location and that is what creates the words No Comments or the number....so making this change tells the page to pull the comment text from the text written in therefore by making this change, you are giving up the ability to see the number of comments on a post as well...just fair warning in case you decide to do this.

This change is really only designed for the Designer Templates....there are other CSS things you can do for the Dynamics that you can find on other blogs out there.

I mostly wanted this for my own reference for the big updates I need to make. Another note about this, that the post template and full template are updated pretty regularly when the Blogger platform is updated so these hacks can disappear and have to be reapplied.

The content that needs to be replaced is < data:post.commentlabelfull/ >: with the text you wanted. This is the section that you are looking for to make that change.

<br /> < b:if cond='data:post.commentSource == 1' ><br /> < span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' expr:data-count='data:post.numComments' expr:data-onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick' expr:data-post-url='data:post.url' expr:data-url='data:post.canonicalUrl' ><br /> < /span ><br /> < b:else/ ><br /> < a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick' ><br /> < data:post.commentLabelFull/ >:<br /> < /a ><br /> < /b:if >

Mishka
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Testing Blogger

Appreciation on the Blogger Help Forum

Always feels good when you help someone and they really appreciate it...makes all the hours worth it!!! See quoted text below!

"Thank you so much!!!! Your information made it so easy. I'm up and running.
I am glad you sent the information on getting started as well. I'll be reading that tonight.
More than anything I appreciate your answers tone. I feel like the old joke from IT support-"Is it plugged in?" You must get a lot more challenging questions but you treated me with respect and grace. That really means a lot. If you have a supervisor that I can sing your praises to let me know, I'd be glad to. If you do this because you like to, I think you are made for helping people. I needed this for an online class I'm taking (don't laugh, they take computer illiterates in the class. They are used to "Adult Learners").
Again, Thank You so much for your help."


https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/blogger/XR7HioTuCK8


Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

CSS For Changing The Wording Of The Commentor

This code worked for me in at least one of my blogs for adding "said:" to the comment after the user's name...I image you could change it to whatever word you wanted. This was only tested on regular templates, not the dynamic views.

Thanks to Yoboy for figuring this out for me.

.comments .comments-content .user:after{
content: " said: " !important;
}
.comments .comments-content .icon.user:after{
content: "said: " !important;
font-size: 0px !important;
}

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

Links to Help Articles About Google+ Comments

These links in the Blogger Help Center about Google+ Comments that were activated today can be very helpful for answering some of the questions users might have about this new feature.

http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2981015

http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=3007761

http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=3007766

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

FAQ: My Comment Link Is Not Working

Comments can have several different issues come up. This thread addresses those times when a user has enabled comments in the blog settings but can't get the link to work properly. This thread does not address problems related to the different styles of comments and issue that they might cause.

Check to make sure the comments are turned on in all three places:
1. On the post options below the post editing window in the post editor
2. On the layout page, if you click on the edit link on the post box (the big one in the middle)
3. On the comments page in your blog settings.

If you have turned all on and cleared your cache and cookies and reloaded the page and they still don't show up, then you might have corrupt blog post widget and Bonnie (another Top Contributor) has a fix for that on her blog that is very easy to follow.

http://howcanidothat.blogspot.com/2007/08/resetting-blog-widget.html

Mishka
Official Blog*Star
Testing Blogger

URL for Comment Feed

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

Mishka
Blogger Help Group Blog*Star
Testing Blogger

Text for Answering the Comment and Blog Post Widget Issue

Check to make sure the comments are turned on in all three places:
1. On the post options below the post editing window in the post editor
2. On the layout page, if you click on the edit link on the post box (the big one in the middle)
3. On the comments page in your blog settings.

If you have turned all on and cleared your cache and cookies and reloaded the page and they still don't show up, then you might have corrupt blog post widget and Bonnie has a fix for that on her blog.

http://howcanidothat.blogspot.com/2007/08/resetting-blog-widget.html

Mishka
Testing Blogger

Link to Bonnie's Fix for Widget Corruption

http://howcanidothat.blogspot.com/2007/08/resetting-blog-widget.html

Mishka
Testing Blogger

Testing Comments...

Trying to see if you can have comments available but not visible...

Mishka
Testing Blogger

Grammatical Comments

This is the link to the grammatical comments hack.

http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-fix-comment-count-grammar-in.html

Mishka
Testing Blogger