Comment Form
The composer is Convocept's comment form. Comments → Convocept → Comment form sets how long authors may edit their comments and the email subscriptions, and shows the WordPress settings the form follows.
Editing after posting
Edit window
How many minutes authors can edit their comment after posting, from 0 to 1440. Default: 5. 0 turns editing off.
While the window is open, the author's comment shows Edit and a countdown. Guests can edit from the same browser they posted from; logged-in readers from any device. Moderators can always edit.
Only comments written in Convocept's form with JavaScript on can be edited in the thread. Comments posted without JavaScript, through the core form or before Convocept, are edited from the dashboard.
Edits are checked against the Settings → Discussion rules again: the link limit, the moderation list and the disallowed-words list. An edit that matches one is held for review. So is an edit that adds a link: spam filters such as Akismet only check new comments.
Set in WordPress
A summary of the Settings → Discussion options that decide who can comment, with a link to change them:
- Name and email required
- Must be logged in to comment
- Every comment waits for approval
- Close comments on old posts
Convocept follows these exactly, on the front end and for comments posted through its REST API.
Formatting
Readers format comments with a small toolbar (bold, italic, link, code, quote) or by typing Markdown. Preview shows the comment exactly as it will look before posting.
| Type | To get |
|---|---|
**bold** | bold |
*italic* | italic |
~~strike~~ | |
`code` | code |
[text](https://example.com) | a link |
> quote | a quote |
- item or 1. item | a list |
| three backticks on their own line | a code block |
Bare http and https addresses become links. Raw HTML is never allowed: it shows as typed. Links accept only http, https and mailto addresses, and get rel="nofollow ugc" like core comment links.
Comments posted before Convocept, or through the core form, are shown as WordPress stored them.
Without JavaScript
The composer is a real HTML form that posts to WordPress's own wp-comments-post.php. Readers without JavaScript, or before the script has loaded, can still comment, reply and subscribe. The same spam checks run either way.
Without JavaScript, comments are saved as plain text rather than Markdown, and editing after posting isn't available.