Today I’m adding a small new feature to Pied Type.
After posting a comment, readers will now have 5 minutes to correct or change it. More than once I’ve posted a comment, only to notice too late that there’s a big fat typo in the middle (something that really upsets this retired editor). Now, if that happens to you, you’ll have 5 minutes to correct it. Or edit it, change your opinion or how you said it, add or delete an image, etc. You will not be able to change the name, email, or URL you originally entered.
Once the time expires, the comment becomes permanent, and, I assume, the prompt will disappear.
The feature won’t work with comments left by anonymous users or comments waiting in moderation.
This may or may not work as I hope. There may be some fine tuning or I may just delete it. But based on my own experience, it seemed worth a try.
As the blog administrator, I can’t view this as you would. (Yes, I logged out. But WP keeps recognizing me.) So one of you, willing to be a guinea pig, needs to comment and tell me if it worked or not. Thanks in advance.
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Jan. 9, 2025: Would love to have implemented this, but I can’t get it to work and can’t get any support from the people who wrote the app.
This is a test.
I don’t see an option to edit the comment.
Did you not see the words “Click to edit” with a 5-minute timer ticking under your comment?
Other than that, you shouldn’t see it on any other comment.
Nothing hinting I could edit. No timer.
I can take a screen shot of you’d like.
Well, dammit. It would be nice if I could get it to work. I suspected it wouldn’t work. It all seemed too easy …
Screenshot not necessary, but thanks for offering. If you saw nothing, there was nothing to see. 🙁
here is my response. I’ll look for the words
my comment disappeared and I didn’t see anything under it
Well, I appreciate your trying. Maybe this was not meant to be.
it could be something I’m doing or not doing on my side, tech is not always my friend )
Or maybe you were bitten by the same bug that’s had me for many months. To make it show up, I often have to refresh the page after I enter a comment. Otherwise it disappears forever. Refresh immediately and it shows up. Go figure.
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I think WordPress is unnecessarily complex now. Automattic just wants more and more retail customers who pay to have retail sites: tant pis for those like us who are mere penniless tyros.
Master of the understatement! Well, WP.com always has been just a test vehicle for WP.org. I could live with that with a free website, but now that I’m paying a significant amount, I rather resent it. Of course, it’s my choice to stay and play in their playground …