WP Wall is a "Wall" widget that appears in your blog's side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page).
All comments are internally handled by WordPress so that means you have normal comment moderation, SPAM protection and new comment notification.
WP Wall is fully customizable with a CSS file and included graphics.
WP Wall features:
- Global commenting "Wall"
- Comments are handled entirely by WordPress
- RSS Feed for the Wall
- Smilies
- Instant delete for admin
- Navigation through pages
- Interactive Wall: It can automatically refresh turning into a chat
Download
Installation & Usage
1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
3. Use the Options page to change your options
4. Add the widget to your sidebar
5. Optionally add WP Wall recent comments to your sidebar. This will filter out wall comments from appearing on recent comments list
WP Wall Admin
FAQ
How does it work?
It creates a draft page in your blog under which all comments are stored.
What if I don't use widgets, how do I code this to appear in the sidebar?
Just put this code somewhere in your theme template, probably sidebar.php
<?php if (function_exists('WPWall_Widget')) WPWall_Widget(); ?>
How does it combat SPAM ?
The same way your usual blog comments work. You can enable comment moderation. Or you can install one of the spam blocking plugins like Akismet.
How to have fixed height and a scrollbar for multiple comments?
Open up wp-wall.css and look for #wallcomments. You should add something like height:200px;. This will give it fixed height. Then increase the number of comments in the settings to 10-15.
How do I change it into a shoutbox/chat?
Just set the refresh time to 5 seconds in the WP Wall options. The Wall becomes a chat-box :)
Performance issues with hosting/server
Be careful with setting interactive chat option. On busy sites this can cause overload of server resources. Try increase the refresh time above 10 seconds or disable this option by setting 0.
An error occurred, please notify the administrator
If you have this problem, change the file permissions of the files in the wp wall directory to 755.
How can I enable smilies?
WP Wall can show smilies using built in WordPress functionality if you enable it in your administration panel (Settings-> Writing-> Convert emoticons...). You can find more information about using smilies here .
Is it possible to display a “Wall-Archive” Page to show all comments?
Actually you will find WP Wall in your draft pages. Just edit it to your liking and - publish it! All comments will appear at the end of the page as usual.
How do I add a border around the comment wall?
Add this to #wallcomments section of css file:
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
padding 7px;
How did you solve the problem with the commenter's email address?
The plugin does not require one to enter their email address.
What's new
v1.5
- Fixed bug with if the blog was not in root directory (thanks Enrico Rossomando)
- Added a special recent comments widget which will not display Wall comments (thanks Enrico Rossomando!)
- Tested in 2.8
You can also visit my other WordPress Plugins.
If you are looking for WordPress Developer, feel free to contact me.
491 Comments
Hum... I already checked the Notify me of followup comments via e-mail here and then I receivre a lots of emails. And I don't want them anymore. Even when I click the link in the emails that says «To manage your subscriptions or to block all notifications from this site» it doesn't work.
How can I remove my address from the list of notifications?
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Best Regards
Due to popular demand next version of WP Wall is out.
New in 1.2:
- Wall page id can be edited in options
- Users are not allowed to post under registered user's names
- Added wall-admin and wall-registered to highlight comments of admins and other registered users
- Comment box is cleared after leaving a comment
Comments are detected as spam by Dave's Spam Karma 2 and thus not shown. I need to manually recover the comments. Help ASAP!
I know there is the date of comment on hover but is there an option to show the date next to the username?
adn can someone write a tutorial for integrating gravatars with wp-wall?
thanks in advance for you help
I love the wall plugin, it makes a site look so much more profesional. Smilies line up great also.
I edited color's code in css file but nothing happen.
Help me please, this plugin so great and enjoyable! Thanks for ur help.
Check: aresvn.com/wp
I have several questions.
1. How do I expand the reply box? Right now, it's smaller in width compared to the Wall box itself. I would like to expand the reply box to the same size as the Wall box.
2. I would like to have the reply box open as default rather than having to click the Leave a reply link. How would I go about doing this?
3. I would like the change some wordings but when I try to change the codes in the PHP files, the output gets all jibberish for 2 byte character sets (non-English). I would I go about making it UTF-8 compatible? (BTW, the input text comes out just fine)
Thanks for a chat box! :)
Q: where can I change the color of the text?
I have tried several colors in the css file, however it does not seem to work. My site is black and uses a theme and black letters are none readable (obvious :)) when looking at the wall page same issue is that comments are in black letters.
Loved if it worked to my needs because it is a great plugin.
Love this plugin....
With the newest comment appearing on the top...I think it would make more sense for the "leave a comment" link to be at the top as well. Especially if you are displaying around 10 or more comments.
great plugin! I just gave up on cbox
is there any chance to get gravatars inside wp-wall? any hack? that would be cool
just to add to that, i'm missing the text box as well, though the reply link opens it up. you can see an example of it broken here http://blog.mosaicbaptist.org/
previuos and next icons seem to be missing, same with in the 'options' page
Cestitam. Congratulations!
Vladimir, Your plug-ins are great! I want to use the WP-wall plug-in but am wondering if you could add in the ability to exclude swear words and profanity? Even if it was done by the admin providing a list of words to exclude and/or replace with either $##%(%)(random char) or other nice words. I just know how people can get and will just post swear words to be funny.
Thanks!
sorry my last post in the forum here was deleted again :-( or spammed away? so I'll try here.
Ok, I disabled the visitor need a name and email to comment and I was asked to enter all required fields !? I have no clue why, so when I entered an email, I got the old error about notifying the admin again :-(
haha, thats funny, in your latest forum posts widget, I can see my two topics, but when I go to the forum, I can't see them anywhere?
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/forum/wp-wall/cant-comment/page-1/post-312#p312
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/forum/wp-wall/wp-wall-101-only-admin-can-post/page-1/post-311/#p311
hello Vladimir, I tried to post my problem into the forum, it seems to work just fine, then when I go back to read the forum, my topic seems to disappear?
Or are you moderating topics? still I should be able to see it right?
can you please check it out?
hello Vladimir,
I have used this plugin since one of its first versions, but now, with version 1.0.1 if a user logs in (editor) and tries to comment in the shoutbox, he gets:
An error occurred, please notify the administrator.
even if he just wrote: test. Same goes for guests, only me as a moderator can write to the shoutbox. settigns are:
wp settings: comments allowed, user must just leave a name and emai laddress
wall settings: comments are enabled and everyone can comment.
see it here: http://www.die-kellerkinder.eu
thanks for the plugin, its great.
i have one question abt the page that it creates.
How does it work?
It creates a draft page in your blog under which all comments are stored.
when someone clicks on "all" on my wall post, he is then directed to this page that does not show the comments at all. is it becoz currently i jus have 1 msg on my wall, or is it something else?
also on the page, i would like to list down all the msgs, how can i go abt doing that?
I'm with the same problem related by Mike. When a non logged user (visitor) try to leave a message got the error:
"An error occurred, please notify the administrator."
I already deactivated all other plugins and still getting the error.
Thanks for any help.
good works thanks wor this awesome plugin
Hi Vladimir,
I have tried to install the plugin, but when I try to activate it, the message that I am receiving is:
"Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error"
Any idea about why?
Thank you for the plugin, anyway!!
Maria
Hello...
Does anyone (vladimir?) know if WP Wall will work with wpmu? I have it installed as a plugin but I can't change any options in the WP Wall setting page
Thanks!!
New major version v1.0 released today
v1.0
- Added email field
- Added option to show HTML
- Added option to make links clickable
- Renamed form fields for xHTML compliance