grav-plugin-comments/README.md

# Grav Comments Plugin

The **Comments Plugin** for [Grav](http://github.com/getgrav/grav) adds the ability to add comments to pages, and moderate them.

| IMPORTANT!!! This plugin is currently in development as is to be considered a **beta release**.  As such, use this in a production environment **at your own risk!**. More features will be added in the future.

# Installation

The Comments plugin is easy to install with GPM.

```
$ bin/gpm install comments
```

Or clone from GitHub and put in the `user/plugins/comments` folder.

# Usage

Add `{% include 'partials/comments.html.twig' with {'page': page} %}` to the template file where you want to add comments.

For example, in Antimatter, in `templates/item.html.twig`:

```twig
{% embed 'partials/base.html.twig' %}

    {% block content %}
        {% if config.plugins.breadcrumbs.enabled %}
            {% include 'partials/breadcrumbs.html.twig' %}
        {% endif %}

        <div class="blog-content-item grid pure-g-r">
            <div id="item" class="block pure-u-2-3">
                {% include 'partials/blog_item.html.twig' with {'blog':page.parent, 'truncate':false} %}
            </div>
            <div id="sidebar" class="block size-1-3 pure-u-1-3">
                {% include 'partials/sidebar.html.twig' with {'blog':page.parent} %}
            </div>
        </div>

        {% include 'partials/comments.html.twig' with {'page': page} %}
    {% endblock %}

{% endembed %}
```

The comment form will appear to the blog post items.

# Enable the Captcha anti-spam filter

To reduce spam in your comments, enable the Google Recaptcha integration we added. Copy the plugin's `comments.yaml` to `user/config/plugins/comments.yaml` and enable `use_captcha`. Also add the Google Recaptcha API keys to allow it to work correctly.

# Where are the comments stored?

In the `user/data/comments` folder. They're organized by page route, so every page with a comment has a corresponding file. This enabled a quick load of all the page comments.

# Visualize comments

When the plugin is installed and enabled, the `Comments` menu will appear in the Admin Plugin. From there you can see all the comments made in the last 7 days.

Further improvements to the comments visualization will be added in the next releases.

# Email notifications

Upon receiving a comment, if `enable_email_notifications` is enabled, the Comments plugin will send an email to the `notifications_email_to` address set in the plugin options.

# Things still missing

- Add language file
- Allow to delete comments from the Admin Plugin
- Allow some pages to disable adding comments
- Ability to see all comments of a page in the Admin Plugin
- Ability to reply to a comment from the Admin Plugin
- Auto-fill the comment form when a user is logged in