OK - no worries ... and I too am trying to help. When you are immersed in the technology like you guys are, it can be hard to tell what is intuitive and easy for the general user.

Apparently the "automatically approve comments" is a feature that should work without any coding (just the settings ...

Actually I don't want to beat up any software system or nor spend any time writing custom code (otherwise I'd be looking on the developer's forum). I guess my expectation was, since this is named "User and Developer community" that non-developers could get some sort of community support without the ...

Thank you mgroeninger for all the attention.

OK here are responses to help get this resolved.
1)
"Do you want comments on the main blog page, under each entry?
(For example, on this page? http://beta.theledge.net/) "

Yes!

Email alerts for comments are a standard part of the software. You ...

Incidentally, that solution worked quite nicely.

OK - well, unfortunately I need to remove the example that is exposing this flaw in Serendipity... because people actually need to view the blog. I wished someone could have stepped in with some help.
Thanks

1. OK - so it's a job for the template. What do I do?

2. Again, I need to gently point out that is it good to snap out of the developer mindset and into the consumer mindset (if you want this software to be more than just for an elite crowd). Bloggers are trying to pull in folks who are not already ...

Here's one

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/09/is_ ... sing_.html

thouigh he has way too many trackbacks ... scroll down just a little and you will see the comment threads underneath, indented and shaded.

OK - actually I mischaracterized the problem (though working with inserting google scripts is very quirky!)

Here is the problem: I am using "google gadgets" (generates a short javascript line that I insert into the web page so that a quote of the day, little game or other app appears). Works ...

OK - I checked all the blogs I subscribe to, and about half have the comments appearing underneath (most are indented and have a different color, shading and font).

I already use the plugin that allows me to list the most recent comments on the side column. Ideally, underneath each blog post would ...

With all due respect - it is a little insulting to imply that because I asked for clarifcation, that I simply had not read the thread.

Not everyone who uses seremipity is a developer (or comfortable with php). The posting/thread is like a dialog between two people who already have a fairly good ...

Here's an interesting one.

1. on the left side I have a google adsense banner (in an HTML nugget). No problems

2. somewhere else, I decided to embed another google link (to a google 'referral') ... this is a similar javascipt segment. So I put this in another HTML nugget.

But when I view the page ...

wow - way too overwhelming amount of info on that link.
To just a have to comments defaulted so that they are showing under the posts - one one think this should be a admin panel setting - or at least one additional setting in the config file(s) somewhere.

I would think it is ... but I just cannot ...

I tried to search to see if anyone had the same problem here without luck.

How do I get the comments posted to appear on the page without the user clicking Comments (5) for example.

in other words ... people are able to log comments, but they are initally not visible on the blog page ... one has ...

I was just about to try that.

Thanks!

I have it such that the blog administration link is exposed on the main blog page - but really - all I want to do is expose a link for "New Entry" - to make it convenient for the 2-3 users who are allowed to do this (without having them be confused by all the admin options)

How can I do this?