Comments

Connect your blog to the most popular social networks. Each comment becomes a call to action for thousands of friends to come check out your content.

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Please note that any test comments entered in this comment roll will disappear after a few minutes.

1 Billion Accounts

Connect your site to 1 billion user accounts and hundreds of thousands of sites full of rich profile data.

White Label

Pro and Pro+ customers can hide the JS-Kit brand and receive enterprise-grade service.

Data and Spam Protection

Advanced spam protection (powered by Akismet). All data is backed up and protected.

Sync*

Legacy comments are imported into JS-Kit comments upon installation. New comments are synced to the base CMS in real time.

* For Wordpress and Blogger only.

Priority Support

Pro and Pro+ customers receive priority support and assistance with any issues related to installation, customization or operation of JS-Kit products.

Comments Service Features

Moderation

Feature Description Availability

Modes
Post-moderation In this mode, all comments are posted and published immediately. Moderators can choose to moderate comments after the fact.
Pre-moderation In this mode, comments will remain hidden until moderated.
White list Comments from whitelisted users (by User Name and/or IP Address) will always be approved by default.
Automated White List Users who have had N comments manually approved by moderators automatically get added to a white list to reduce moderation workload.

Content filtering
Spam control with Akismet JS-Kit has integrated Akismet for powerful automated spam detection.
Community moderation "Mark as offensive" is displayed under each comment. The community can flag comments they feel are innapropriate. Administrators can set the number of required reports before the system automatically removes the offending comment.
Language Filter Administrators can customize a list of 'stop words' that automatically flag comments containing those words. The flagged/filtered comments can then be moderated and posted by the administrator.

Moderation controls
Comment Metadata

Each comment comes with additional data attached including: Known user name, user profile (if available), full IP address, date and time, moderation status, link to page source and more.
Ban by User Name Users can be baned one at a time by User Name
Ban by IP Address Users can be baned one at a time by IP Address
Ban List Management Administrators can modify the ban list at any time
Search Administrators can search in comment body, by user name and by IP address
Moderation Sorting Administrators can sort the moderation queue by date/time, IP address, user name, threaded view or flat or highlight "bad words". Pagination features are also available in the moderation system
Filter list of comments by Administrators can filter the list of comments in the moderation queue by site, pending, published, starred, from banned users, from banned IP, spammed by community or deleted.
Batch selection Administraots can select all, select none or select/deselect comments individually
Batch controls Administrators can approve, mark as spam, block user, block IP, delete or mark for later multiple comments in batches
Individual controls Administrators can approve, mark as spam, block user, block IP, delete, mark as star or reply to each comment comment one at a time
Image control Thumbnails are automatically created for attached images. Clicking on each thumbnail loads the image at full resolution.
Highlights Coments left by moderators can be highlighted to denote authority.
Multi-user moderation Site owners can grant moderation access to multiple users to help spread the workload around.
Sub-section moderation Administrators can assigned specific paths over which they have moderation privilidges. This is great for sites with multiple sub-sections managed by multiple individuals.

Notifications
Email notification Users have the choice of receiving notification emails when new comments are posted to threads they are participating in.
Enable email followups Users can reply to comments by simply replying to the notification email.


Visual customization

Feature Description Availability

Basic Themes

Multiple Skins

 "Wireframe" and "Smooth Gray" currently available. More contributed by the community all the time.

Theme Customization
Visual design Administraots can set the visual attributes of most of the elements of the comment thread and "Leave a comment" panel through client-side CSS. This iIncludes all CSS attributes including text, background, border, margins and more...

Element layout

 Administrators can change the layout of most of the elements of the comment thread and "Leave a comment" panel through client-side overrides of <div> tags or other attributes.
Labels Administraots can edit the most common labels used in the user interface such as "Leave a Comment" or "Reply".
Custom fields Administrators can add custom fields using client-side <div> tags to extend the functionality of the comment form. Custom fields can include text fields, lists etc...
Flexible date/time format Administrators can configure their preferred date and time format.
White Label Pro Customers can chose to remove the JS-Kit branding (White Label).

Dimensions

Width Controls

 Administrators can force the width of the widget. The default width is 100% (Will occupy the available horizontal space available in the parent div/container).
Multiple Display Modes Administrators can chose to display the comment thread embedded expanded, embedded collapsed, or in popup

Pagination
Results per page Administraots can enable pagination and set a maximum number of comments per page.

Multi-page threads

 Thread that are spliced by pagination highlight as much using a 'torn paper' effect.
Sort Ordering Administrators can set the default comment order (Ascending or Descending). Users can also override for their own needs on a case by case basis.

 

Leave a comment options

Feature Description Availability

"Leave a comment" form
Comment Form Behaviour Administrators can set the New Comment Form to load expanded or collapsed by default.
Comment Form Location Administrators may set the default position of the New Comment Form either above or below the comment thread.
Safe HTML support Administrators may enable 'safe html' support in comments (E.g. Bold, Italics etc).
Hyperlinks URLs included in the comment body are automatically made into hyperlinks.
Video embed If enabled by Administrators, users can embed YouTube videos with inline video playback (Video plays within the comment) without leaving the site.
Rich Text Editor If enabled by Administrators, users can use a rich text toolbar for formatting options (Bold, Italics, Underline, Undo, Redo, Hyperlink).
Emoticons If enabled by Administrators, users can chose from a palette of 16 graphical emoticons to include in their comment. Emoticons will also be parsed out of clear text in the comment body.

Threading
Reply Button Administrators can enable the "reply" button. Users who 'reply' to comments create unlimited levels of threading. When in threaded display mode, replies are displayed directly indented under the parent comment.

Pictures
Picture Commenting Users can attach an unlimited number of JPEGs to each comment (up to 10MB per file). Images are automaticly thumbnailed with an editable caption for each.

Avatar
Avatar Upload If enabled by the Administrator, Users can upload custom avatars. Images are automaticly thumbnailed for use next to comments etc.
Gravatars Gravatars are supported (from Gravatar.com). Gravitars are automatic imported based on email address used by commenter. Ability to select audience rating based on Gravatar rating system.
Avatar Controls Administrators can set the dimension of Avatars/Gravatars displayed in comment thread.
Custom Default Avatar Administrators can customize the default avatar when commenter do not provide their own.

Default comment
First Commenting Administrators can set a customizable 'first comment' to be automatically added to each new thread.

 

Deployment controls and privacy

Feature Description Availability
Multiple Instances per page Administrators can display multiple comment threads on a single page (Using the 'Path' attribute).
Multiple pages per Instance Administrators can display the same comment thread across multiple pages (Using the Permanent URL attribute).
Email Privacy User emails addresses are always protected. We do not share emails with other commenters or with publishers. Email is only used for notification and system messages.

 

Transparent Blogging Platform Integration

Feature Description Availability
Wordpress Comment Sync Full integration with the WordPress platform: Transparently switch back and forth between native WP comment system and JS-Kit Comment system with no loss of comments because comments are always synchronized with Wordpress.
Blogger Comment Sync Full integration with the Google Blogger platform: Transparently switch back and forth between native Blogger comment system and JS-Kit Comment system with no loss of comments because comments are always synchronized with Blogger. This allows to use Blogger as a backup solution should JS-Kit go down.

 

SEO and access to comments

Feature Description Availability
RSS Feeds RSS feeds are available for every comment thread on a path basis js-kit.com/rss/yoursite.com/path. Learn more here.
SEO Administrators can ensure their site is credited with SEO juice by adding a DNS entry rss.yoursite.com in CNAME (subdomain mapping). Learn more here.
API API access to the core JS-Kit comment engine available. Learn more here.

 

Authentication

Feature Description Availability

Commenter authentication
Multiple Login Methods Users and Administrators can log in using any of the following methods: Facebook Account, OpenID, Haloscan Account or JS-Kit Account.
Optional Forced Authentication Administrators can chose to force users to log in before leaving a comment (this removes anonymous/guest commenting)
Account Binding JS-Kit user profiles and accounts can be bound to the host site account system so that users only have to log in once. Learn more Here.

 

Community

Feature Description Availability

Comment Ratings
User Karma If enabled by the administrator, users can vote on comments. Karma appears as  "Like this comment? (yes/no)" on each comment.
Comment Ratings If enabled by the administrator, users can use the JS-Kit Star Ratings widget rate each comment.

User Profile and private messages
Toggle profile on and off Administrators can enable or disable user profiles attached to users and their comments.
User profile includes Users can provide multiple links to personal sites. User profiles also include the user's activity stream of actions across all JS-Kit sites (Administrators can chose to turn this feature off).
Private Messages Users can send private messages to a commenter with email notification (when email is provided by the recipient).

TrackBack/PingBack
Enable TrackBack/PingBack JS-Kit Comments auto-detects and inserts Trackbacks/Pingbacks from other blogs.
Pre-moderation Administrators have the option to pre-moderate TrackBacks/PingBacks just like comments.
Trackback/Pingpack replies Users can reply to TrackBack/PingBack notices right in the comment thread.

 

Client-side features

Feature Description Availability

Viewing options
Multiple Sort Options Users can sort comments by date, user name, karma (votes), rating (stars), ascending or descending order.
Multiple presentation styles Users can switch between threaded (nested messages and their replies) view and non-threaded (flat view, sorted by sorting options) view. Default can be set by the administrator.
Search Ability to search within a comment thread using search queries.

 

Support

Feature Description Availability
Enterprise grade service and support JS-Kit engineering team is dedicated to supporting our customers. The team is intimately familiar with the core technology and enterprise-grade deployment.
Priority email support Priority email support is provided for Pro customers.
Customization Support Support is available for customization of all products (look and feel, behaviour and integration into other services).
Constant Communication JS-Kit provides constant Blog and Twitter updates. We also track Twitter to help out wherever we can. We think support is a killer feature!
Full Documentation Wiki-based documentation & Support Forum available including Admin Guide, Frequently Asked Questions, API Guide and more.