Blogger introduces inline comment form

The most annoying feature of blogger, the commenting system, has been finally been looked upon by the blogger team as it pushes out much desired inline comment forms out of the draft version of blogger. Good move, I would say though and as I anticipated, this would create a bit of mess for people like me who completely revamped their widget templates.With the help of some html tweaks, thankfully this blog now runs inline comment forms which I hope will increase the participation of those lazy people who simply hated that popup



If you too are running a heavily modified template, following html tweak might work for you

Important: I'm giving directions for widget templates and not for classic templates



First of all follow basic instructions given on blogger blog.Check your post page, if comment form is visible then no problems, but if not, then the following steps may help you out.



Step 1: Open your dashboard, Follow the Layout link, Select Edit HTML



Step 2: Backup your template(don't be lazy, this may prove very costly)



Step 3: Look for this line

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if>

            and replace it with

<b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'> <b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if> </b:if>



 There may be one/ more than one places where u'll find this code, just be sure where you want comment form to be dislayed



 Tip: For saving time, you can copy the html code to notepad, save it as a text file first and then use the find option to quickly jump to the required code.



Step 4: Save the template code, and have a look on any of your bog's postpage.



Should work, if not, comments welcome.

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