Hi all,
Robin suggested that it is possible to expand and collapse the replies in a thread. However my php skills are rudimentary so I am wondering if someone has the solution?
This is what I want – in perfect world:
- to allow replies to have a title (they do in the back end but never when the user is posting)
- to display a thread as a collapsed, and indented, list using the title (or first line if titles proves impossible) as the default view
- to offer an expand “button” to allow the user to see the full text of anything that is collapsed
- to offer a collapse”button” to allow the user to collapse and expanded item
- to complete the usability it would be good to have a config parameter that the user sets to indicate if he wants collapsed or expanded threads as default – but this is a plug-in change, I include it here for completeness
If anyone has don anything similar please share it, I think it may be a good addition to the dev requests in the long-run?
Thank you……… liz
Oh, forgot to say tried alternate theme and behave the same way if threading is on.
Hi Robin,
About the indenting: I do have threading ticked because I want that. So I want it to look like this
….1 First item
……..1.1 Reply to first Item
……..1.2 Second reply to 1st Item
…………1.2.1 Reply to 1.2
……..1.3 third Reply to 1st item
….2 Second Item
My problem is that I get this:
….1 First item
….1.1 Reply to first Item
….1.2 Second reply to 1st Item
……..1.2.1 Reply to 1.2
….1.3 third Reply to 1st item
….2 Second Item
Which don’t make any visual sense at all. So I imagined it is a CSS setting that I can change but what is it?
liz
Robin,
One last question. I am using a child theme to preserve changes. In this case can I put the file in the child theme folder?
liz
Dear Robin,
Yes, that is all clear. I have managed to do this without breaking anything!
Thank you
liz
It doesn’t quite indent as I would expect. What happens is the parent post is margin aligned. the reply is also margin aligned – I thought it would be indented by one (so to speak), then any response to the reply would be indented by 2.
Is it possible to indent the first reply…. can I do this with CSS?
Thank you
liz
I should have been clear and indicated that I mean I want this facility at the point where you get to all the posts; I would like to see all listed and have the ability to expand or collapse, plus remove the avatar
thank you,
liz
aha, I see. Yes this works now. I would like the display to be somewhat more compact can I display a single line, no avatar and then expand or collapse?
Thank you
liz
