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Questions, Bugs, Enhancements? Mail me: yatcp@organisiert.net
Features
- Tested from WP 2.0.10, up to 2.5
- Out of the Box threaded comments
- Works without Javascript
- Customizable through CSS or own templates
- Completely internationalized for easy translation
- Limiting of nesting depth
- GPL v2 licensed
Customization
YATCP comes with a full set of template Files, so you can use it out of the box with minimum changes to your template.
The look it produces roughly reproduces what standard E-Mail Readers show you, when they visualize a Mailthread: increased depth
of the text, prepended by a number of vertical lines, as shown in the image. 
This visualization however lacks all fancy features one could imagine (like collapsing comments), and it might not match your template design at all. To alleviate these shortcomings you can tweak the outout of YATCP in two ways:
- If you're happy with the HTML output (which basically is a list of nested <ul> elements) and just don't like the look you might tweak the CSS that YATCP is using.
- If you want everything to behave different you are also free to use your own Template Files
YATCP Options
Starting with Version 0.3 YATCPs behavior can be customized. Below you'll find a short description of what the Options do.
You can easily change these settings using the new Options page (starting with Version 0.5). It is found in the Wordpress Admin Area under Options » YATCP Options
- Comment nesting depth
- Having deeply nested comments will most probably destroy your design at some point (or making the space for the comment text ridicously small). To prevent this YATCP constricts the nesting level. You just need to change this to the number of nesting levels you want to see. (In the YATCP default style this will be equal to the number of vertical lines shown to the left of the post)
- Preventing Trackbacks/Pingbacks from being replied to
- Within WP Trackbacks and Pingbacks are just comments of a special Type. That caused them to
show up in the dropdown-box to select the comment to comment on. Now YATCP takes care of excluding those
comments in the List, as you normally won't comment on them. Also Trackbacks/Pingbacks do not get
a Reply Link added.
Checking the Checkbox in the Options pane means that Trackbacks/Pingbacks are not shown as valid Reply Options.
The Display of Trackbacks/Pingbacks is - however - not influenced by this setting - Hiding of Trackbacks/Pingbacks
- This Option allows you to completely hilde Trackbacks/Pringbacks from the list of comments.
If the box is checked these are not displayed anymore.
Please note, that this also influences the number of comments shown for the post! - Display of the nesting warning
- By default every Comment where a Reply wouldn't be shown nested but flat - due to the comment depth restriction - has a warning shown. By setting this Option you can however have YATCP show that warning only on those comments that are on the maximum depth, but not on the ones nested deeper. That way only the first comment in a flat display of nested comments will have that warning.