Jack Slocum’s Comment System Available as a WordPress Plugin
Jack Slocum became pretty popular when he built a WordPress comment system that was unlike any others you might have seen. The concept behind the comment system was to let users leave comments almost anywhere they would like on a post, instead of just at the end.
It basically divides a post up into “blocks” where each paragraph is considered to be a block. Users can then leave comments for that block by simply clicking anywhere in the thin sidebar, and doing so will popup with a window for you to leave a comment.
While it was cool playing with it on Jack Slocum’s site, there wasn’t an easy way for WordPress users to implement the comment system themselves. Now, however, PHPVoid has created a WordPress plugin that lets you add the comment system onto your site in no time at all. You’ll just need to download and install the plugin along with modifying a little bit of the code on the site.
Personally I think the comment system is a cool concept, but if I were trying to read through a lot of comments it would probably get annoying. So you won’t be seeing this implemented on our site, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a good system for your own site.
P.S. We are, however, working on revamping our site with a brand new look as well as some new features that have been requested. One of those features is a nested comment system so that users can easily reply to other users comments. This is just one of the many things that will be great in our biggest update ever, which should be coming in the next month or two!
Thanks for the tip Kassad!
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The Jack Slocum link (2nd one in the post) seems to freeze Opera and Firefox.
Jacks UI library now re branded [ExtJs.com] is fantastic! I’ve used it in a couple of project for work and it’s simple awesome. It makes web development fun and the user experience better.
The comment system uses his library to create a unique and interesting way to comment.
I’m guessing that is because of the 3000 comments on the article.
Any live examples we can checkout?
Check out the [yui-ext.com] It’s has example and is built with the library.
Here is the link to some general [jackslocum.com]
You should check out [jackslocum.com] It’s has lots of goodies.
That layouts thing is actually pretty cool. I went through is blog the other day when I wrote that article but must have missed that post.