DWQA Comments

DW Q&A Comments

A few weeks ago I came across the DW Q&A WordPress plugin from Design Wall. With a quick activation it replaced bbPress with a discussion board similar to Stack Overflow. A few tweaks to the templates and it looked just like I wanted.

But that wasn't enough. I wanted to replace comments on individual posts with their own mini discussion board. And that's where this plugin comes in.

Installation

Head over to releases and grab the latest zip file.

In WordPress admin click on the Plugins > Add New.

Click on the Upload Plugin and upload the zip you downloaded.

Shortcodes

This plugin adds a [dwqa_post_comments] shortcode that is replaced with any questions tied to that post and the standard comment submission form from DWQA. When on a post or page the shortcode adds a hidden field to the submission form so that it can be tied to that specific post.

Replacing Comments

Easiest way to replace all comments with this is to modify the comments.php file in your theme.

This is the one that I'm using.

<?php
if ( post_password_required() )
  return;

echo '<div class="comments">' . do_shortcode( '[dwqa_post_comments]' ) . '</div>';

Why?

I've never really liked the default WordPress comments or any of the other JavaScript options. The Stack Overflow interface has always seemed more intuitive to me, so I wanted to go with that.