Download: here

A lot of users have been asking whether we will be supporting K2, so we’ve created a beta version for K2 on Joomla! 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5.

It has all the features of the standard plugin but works with K2 items as well.

Please note that this is beta software and therefore it may contain bugs. If you notice any problems or have any suggestions please feel free to leave us a message in our discussion forums here.

We will have a stand and will be available to chat about DiscussIt moderation and curation solutions. See here for the summit agenda.

Get it [ HERE ] (Joomla! 1.5 not supported)

There are some major changes in the new version, not least of which is the inclusion of local storage for comments. This allows us to include an optional comment count on category pages, and gives us the ability add new features such as import/export and on-site moderation to the package at a later date through automatic updates.

One immediately noticable change is that plugin administration is no longer done through Joomla’s plugin administration page. To get to The new setup page select “DiscussIt” from the “extensions” menu on your site admin page.

Other new features include:

• Settings now controlled from Component.
• Automatic closure of comments.
• Tool-tips in backend.
• Support for automatic updating.
• Language auto-detect (works with language switchers)
• Recent comments list in backend.

Upcoming features in future updates include:

• On-site moderation through the “Recent Comments” form.
• Import / export comments.

The new version concentrates on performance, memory consumption has been reduced and we have cut down on the number of transactions going on behind the scene which results in a more responsive application. To achieve this we have had to remove the mentions section, we plan to put the section back in the future making sure that the feature is not detrimental to the applications core functionality – being the moderation of comments.

Download the latest copy of DiscussIt Moderator.

We’ve made a few changes to our Joomla! plugin in an effort to simplify its use. The plugin now automatically detects what language the page is in and switches to it if it’s in our database. This means it should work with most language switching plugins too.
We’ve also dropped the “Show in all categories” override as it seemed a bit redundant.

You will immediately notice the cleaner intuitive GUI. The comment feed is now rendered using HTML which gives us more freedom with layout and is faster to draw. Changes are not only skin deep though, with speed enhancements the goal, we upgraded our API to use Auth 2.0 and made alterations to the data store. The GUI and backend changes combine to make moderation a speedy pleasure.

A right click context menu can now be brought up for all comments where options to reply, edit or ban IP can be seen. A filters section is now shown on your live comment feed column, you can include or exclude by url patterns (i.e. ‘!sport movies’ would exclude sport and include movies) making it easy to share moderation duties.

Don’t forget DiscussIt Moderator can be used to moderate comments from WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, Echo & DiscussIt commenting systems.

Download DiscussIt Moderator, it’s FREE!

New features include…

* Set toast notifcation visibility/sound per site.
* Edit comments (right click on a message to see the feature).
* Filter your comment view by url to share moderation workload.
* Filter by status (only showing new speeds up your moderation duties – try it!).
* Settings screen imporved.
* OAuth 2.0.

The new DiscussIt Plugin for WordPress (v1.5) has lots of new features including:

• Spam-Protection
  (without annoying captchas!)

• JavaScript comments

• New moderation types

As well as improvements to the admin interface.

We’ve taken a novel two-pronged approach to combating WordPress comment spam. Most WordPress comment spam comes from ‘spam-bots,’ which are programs that inject comments directly into your wordpress blog or automatically fill out comment forms without any human involvement. For this reason a lot of anti-spam systems use ‘Captchas,’ which make users fill out a form to prove they’re human before they are allowed to post comments. We believe this puts users off getting involved in the discussion so, instead we’ve used hidden forms to provide protection against spam-bots and, if you choose to use our JavaScript based comment system, you’ll get even greater protection because spam-bots tend not to be able to handle JavaScript.

As well as adding robust spam-protection for your WordPress blog, the new DiscussIt plugin now supports two different moderation types:

Post-Moderation shows unapproved comments on the blog before they’ve been moderated. and Pre-Moderation hides comments until they’ve been moderated.

For more details see the DiscussIt WordPress Plugin page.

Here is a full list of other formats we support, if your have a suggestion for any other embeddable media you would like us to support then leave a comment below.

Image thumbnailing
Supported extensions include: jpg, gif, png, jpeg.

Videos
The following video sites are supported: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Metacafe.

Audio
We currently just support Audioboo and mp3 files, there are probably many more we should support?

Documents & Other
We used to support Scribd.com documents, but this is currently broken (fix on the way). eBay listings are support though.

As part of this update we have re-written the mentions section of the application. The idea of the mentions section is to provide a quick and easy way of finding where your site, or tracked keywords are being mentioned elsewhere on the internet. At present we are just searching the Twitter stream, but we hope to add other sources over time. Multiple filters per site can be added so you can keep an eye on your competition as well as important keywords.

We’ve also given the GUI a little spring clean, particularly the left hand side sites menu. Here we have spaced things out a little better and added a count of the un-approved comments in each site. Which makes all the difference whilst moderating multiple sites.

Next up we are going to improve the display of comments, to better support the moderation of comments that include images, videos and links to other sites.

If you’ve not yet installed DiscussIt Moderator to manage your web sites comments, give it a go and please give us feedback on your views and suggestions for improvement.

Download the DiscussIt Moderator application, it’s FREE!

[updated to 1.0.1 - changed to new API endpoint]

Download: HERE

Updated installation and administration guide is available here.

The DiscussIt plugin for Joomla! is out of beta with version 1.0, which is more robust and easier to set up than ever!

Users of older versions of the plugin wanting to upgrade should uninstall previous versions of the plugin (instructions: Joomla 1.5, Joomla 1.6) before installing version 1.0 – if you are upgrading from version 0.7.1 or higher your comments will not be lost during the upgrade.

New Features:

• - Simplified installation for Joomla 1.6
• - Added widget module that can be placed almost anywhere (including inside your articles)
• - No longer requires cURL (can use url_fopen too)
• - widget width can be set to AUTO
• - Comments link user-customizable