{"id":3080,"date":"2010-10-11T22:03:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2010-10-11T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:33:47","slug":"customizing-intense-debate-with-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/technology\/customizing-intense-debate-with-css.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing Intense Debate with CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/personal\/poll-do-you-like-the-new-commenting-system.html\">prefer IntenseDebate to Disqus<\/a>, but the default IntenseDebate layout leaves much to be desired. It&#8217;s very easy to change IntenseDebate using the &#8220;Custom CSS&#8221; option in the settings section. This is important because there are <em>lots<\/em> of things which need to be customized.<\/p>\n<p>In this tutorial, we&#8217;ll see how to do these four things:<\/p>\n<p>Remove the flashy and annoying &#8220;Login&#8221; buttons<br \/>\nIncrease the height of the comment box<br \/>\nEnable and customize the &#8220;CommentLuv&#8221; plugin for IntenseDebate<br \/>\nMove the &#8220;Name&#8221; and &#8220;Email&#8221; fields above the comment box<\/p>\n<p>These tips below should work for everyone. The documentation provided by IntenseDebate leaves much to be desired and I had to use Google Chrome&#8217;s &#8220;Inspect Element&#8221; command to figure out how to achieve the following.<\/p>\n<h2>Removing the Login Buttons<\/h2>\n<p>Most of our readers are simple people. They get confused by multiple login choices with different colors. Some of them don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s optional and ask why they have to login (and sometimes create an account) <em>and<\/em> enter their Name, Email, URL! You can lose a lot of readers, cause the first rule of designing comment systems is <em>Keep it simple!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our first job is to hide all the annoying login buttons such as IntenseDebate, WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, and OpenID as well as the &#8220;Comment as a Guest, or Login&#8221; message. To do that, type the following into your &#8220;Custom CSS&#8221; section in the &#8220;Settings&#8221; tab:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">.idc-postnav-label { display: none !important; }<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">.idc-postnav-list { display: none !important; }<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Save the CSS, reload your page and confirm that the buttons have vanished.<\/p>\n<h2>Increase the Height of the comment box<\/h2>\n<p>I never understood why the comment boxes are always so tiny. I like room to type my thoughts without having my last two lines scroll up and vanish. Unfortunately, the &#8220;Enable auto-expanding textareas&#8221; option doesn&#8217;t work. I sent an email to the IntenseDebate support group, but didn&#8217;t get any reply, which was a pity since it would be quite a killer feature if it worked. Anyway, increase the height of the comment box to 200px to give your commenters some breathing space:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#idc-container div.idc-text_noresize, #idc-container textarea.idc-text_noresize {height: 200px !important;}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Make sure you disable the &#8220;Enable auto-expanding textareas&#8221; checkbox.<\/p>\n<h2>IntenseDebate doesn&#8217;t always link names to your Website!<\/h2>\n<p>Some time ago, Automattic &#8211; the creators of WordPress &#8211; acquired IntenseDebate. Because of this, IntenseDebate got a new &#8220;feature.&#8221; Anyone who&#8217;s signed into their WordPress account is automatically signed into the IntenseDebate commenting system and so they see a &#8220;Posting as <em>username<\/em>&#8221; message when they comment on an IntenseDebate enabled site. This <em>sounds<\/em> great, but the big gaping hole is that after posting the comment, <strong>the name of the person links to their IntenseDebate profile instead of their website!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people don&#8217;t have an IntenseDebate account, but <em>lots<\/em> of people have a WordPress account. When I comment on someone&#8217;s post, I want my name to link back to <em>my website<\/em>. As of now, if a WordPress logged-in user comments on your IntenseDebate enabled site, their name will link to a blank IntenseDebate profile, leaving other readers no way of knowing who they are, or what their website is. Here&#8217;s what it looks like:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3081\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3081\" title=\"Name links to IntenseDebate profile instead of Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Name-links.jpg\" alt=\"Name links to IntenseDebate profile instead of Website\" width=\"321\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Name-links.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Name-links-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Name-links-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Name links to IntenseDebate profile instead of Website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>See the link in the red box? That&#8217;s what the name of a commentor links to. And most people&#8217;s default IntenseDebate profile is blank. The only way for a WordPress Logged in commenter to get their name linked to their own URL is to log out first, then fill in the Name, Email, and URL fields.<\/p>\n<p>No one is going to take that much effort.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no workaround for this. As of now, there&#8217;s only one thing I&#8217;ve been able to do that somewhat mitigates the effect of this terrible design decision &#8211; and that is to activate the &#8220;CommentLuv&#8221; plugin.<\/p>\n<h2>Enable and customize the &#8220;CommentLuv&#8221; plugin<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using IntenseDebate, you simply<em> have<\/em> to use the CommentLuv plugin for the reasons given above. What this plugin does, is that it allows commenters to fill out a &#8220;URL&#8221; field. It then grabs the latest post from the feed of that URL and appends it to the comment. So people who want to find out more about a commenter can click that link to go to their website.<\/p>\n<p>To enable the CommentLuv plugin just go the &#8220;plugins&#8221; section in your IntenseDebate account and activate it. This will place a small &#8220;Site URL&#8221; box underneath the comment box. But once again, there&#8217;s a big flaw.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3082\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3082 \" title=\"CommentLuv Below Box - Immediately pressing &quot;Reply&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CommentLuv-Below-Box.png\" alt=\"CommentLuv Below Box - Immediately pressing &quot;Reply&quot;\" width=\"580\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CommentLuv-Below-Box.png 580w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CommentLuv-Below-Box-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CommentLuv-Below-Box-150x48.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CommentLuv-Below-Box-400x130.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CommentLuv Below Box - Immediately pressing &quot;Reply&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the CommentLuv plugin to work, a user has to type their URL into the box. But after that, <em>they have to click somewhere else<\/em> for the plugin to retrieve the latest post. By default, the CommentLuv box is below the main comment form and so most users just click &#8220;Reply&#8221; after typing in their URL. This means that the plugin won&#8217;t have the time to go get the latest post and thus won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to use CSS to place the CommentLuv section <em>above<\/em> the comment entry box. This way, users will first fill in their URL and <em>then<\/em> type in their comments giving the plugin plenty of time to find the latest post and prepare it for insertion. Here&#8217;s the CSS to do that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#IDCommentsNewThread {position: relative !important;padding-top: 80px !important;}<br \/>\n#IDCommentReplyForm1{position: relative !important;padding-top: 80px !important;}<\/p>\n<p>#luv_field_new {left: 0px !important;position: absolute !important;top: 10px !important;}<br \/>\n#luv_field_reply {position: absolute !important;top: 10px !important;left: 0 !important;}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This pads the top of the comment box <em>and<\/em> the &#8220;Reply&#8221; box\u00a0with 80 pixels and positions the CommentLuv primary and reply sections on the top left.<\/p>\n<h2>Move the &#8220;Name&#8221; and &#8220;Email&#8221; fields above the comment box<\/h2>\n<p>Of course, now that the &#8220;Site URL&#8221; field is above the comment box, we should move the &#8220;Name&#8221;, &#8220;Email&#8221; and &#8220;URL&#8221; fields to to the top as well next to it. Here&#8217;s the CSS to achieve just that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#IDCommentReplyDiv{position: relative !important} \/*Prepare reply comment for positioning *\/<br \/>\n#IDCommentReplyForm2{position: absolute !important; top: 31px !important; left: 200px !important;}<br \/>\n#IDCommentNewThreadForm2 {position: absolute !important; top: 7px !important; left: 175px !important;width: 100% !important;}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These have to work in conjunction with the CSS commands in the previous section.<\/p>\n<h2>Hide the &#8220;CommentLuv&#8221; image and the &#8220;IntenseDebate&#8221; logo<\/h2>\n<p>If you really want to clean up the comment section, this CSS will hide the unnecessary images:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>.idc-foot { display: none !important; }<br \/>\nspan#mylastpost img:first-of-type { display: none !important; }<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Putting it all together<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is my consolidated CSS put together for easy copy paste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>.idc-postnav-label { display: none !important; }<br \/>\n.idc-postnav-list { display: none !important; }<br \/>\n.idc-foot { display: none !important; }<br \/>\n#idc-container div.idc-text_noresize, #idc-container textarea.idc-text_noresize {height: 200px !important;}\/*Pad and prepare new comment and reply comment boxes *\/<\/p>\n<p>#IDCommentsNewThread {position: relative !important;padding-top: 80px !important;}<br \/>\n#IDCommentReplyForm1{position: relative !important;padding-top: 80px !important;}<\/p>\n<p>#IDCommentReplyDiv{position: relative !important} \/*Prepare reply comment for positioning *\/<br \/>\n#IDCommentReplyForm2{position: absolute !important; top: 31px !important; left: 200px !important;}<br \/>\n#IDCommentNewThreadForm2 {position: absolute !important; top: 7px !important; left: 175px !important;width: 100% !important;}<\/p>\n<p>#luv_field_new {position: absolute !important;top: 10px !important;left: 0 !important;}<br \/>\n#luv_field_reply {position: absolute !important;top: 10px !important;left: 0 !important;}<\/p>\n<p>#all_luv{font-weight:bold !important;} \/*Bold the text for comment luv *\/<br \/>\nspan#mylastpost img:first-of-type { display: none !important; }<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After making all these changes, here&#8217;s what the final result looks like for a non-logged in user:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3083\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3083\" title=\"Cleaned up IntenseDebate form\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IntenseDebate.png\" alt=\"Cleaned up IntenseDebate form\" width=\"534\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IntenseDebate.png 534w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IntenseDebate-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IntenseDebate-150x105.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IntenseDebate-400x282.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleaned up IntenseDebate form<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s close enough to the default WordPress comment system for me. 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