RapidWeaver JS-Kit Blog Integration

17. September 2009 16:09 Gespeichert in:Rapid Weaver | JS-Kit
If you are a Rapidweaver 4.2.3 user, you can use JS-Kit Echo to allow your visitors to leave comments. That's exactly what you see on this blog...

Installation
 
It's very easy to install Echo if you are using Rapidweaver 4.2.3.
 
Step 1 - Install Echo code on your site
 
  • Open the Page Inspector in Rapidweaver 4.2.3
  • Click the "Enable" comments option
  • Upload your site and test it, Js-Kit Echo should now be running on your site

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Step 2 - Edit settings and moderate
 
  • Go to http://js-kit.com/pricing, enter the domain name of your site and purchase a license
  • After purchasing the license, login or create an account on http://js-kit.com/settings
  • Go to the "install" section and add the site you just purchased
  • You can then edit the different settings of Echo for your site
  • Go to the "moderation" section to moderate the comments


Customization instructions
 
1. Changing Colors and Fonts
 
To customize the look of the JS-Kit Echo you need to place your custom CSS rules into Page Inspector>Header>CSS. Do not use style tags - RapidWeaver places the css rules in style tags automatically.
 
 
/* Sample CSS rule */
  .js-kit-comments {border: 1px solid #000;}
 
customCss 

For a complete guide to using CSS to customize the look and feel of echo check the Skinning Guide.
 
2. Changing Echo Behavior
 
In addition to esdit Echo Settings at http://js-kit.com/settings, you can set some advanced settings using some scripts.
To customize the Echo's behavior (for example, to change amount of comments displayed on a page, you should change a parameter called "paginate") you need to perform the same steps as in the paragraph above.
 
However, to set the parameter you need to put custom javascript code instead of the CSS code.
 
For example, to change the "paginate" parameter from default value to 3 comments per page you need to add the code like this:
 

 
You can find the full list of customization parameters here.
When adding the parameters to the JSKitConfig variable above the parameter names should be prefixed with "comments-" substring.
 
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