Grav Comments Plugin

The Comments Plugin for 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:

{% 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