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Hello all,

I just wanted to know if I could get some assistance with two quick issues:

1) How does one make it so that ALL comments require approval before they are made public? I need to moderate all comments to all articles (even ones made the same day).

2) How does one change the colour of the dates on the calendar sidebar-plugin for which I have written. Basically, I would like to change the colour of the dates that are links in the calendar.

Thank you preemptively.

Hi!

1. You can check the checkbox "Comments require moderation" when creating a new entry to require moderation. Also you can configure the spamblock plugin and enter ".*" inside the author name text filter box and set that to "Moderate" to catch comments made by any author name.

2. This is controlled via CSS; there exists a specific CSS class for those entries, which you can look up with tools like Firebug, and then edit the style.css stylesheet of your template.

HTH,
Garvin

kalos wrote:Hello all,

I just wanted to know if I could get some assistance with two quick issues:

1) How does one make it so that ALL comments require approval before they are made public? I need to moderate all comments to all articles (even ones made the same day).

When you first create an entry/post, there is a checkbox for "Comments & trackbacks to this entry requires moderation" that will accomplish your objective. You can also set the default value for this option on an author by author basis.

kalos wrote:2) How does one change the colour of the dates on the calendar sidebar-plugin for which I have written. Basically, I would like to change the colour of the dates that are links in the calendar.

This question has a good chance of being template-specific... because the template you are using may have elected to use a custom smarty template to display the calendar.... you COULD start by trying this class in your style.css file:

.serendipity_calendarDay .Link {
your style rules here....
}

Thanks for the information! I have changed the settings to automatically require moderation for comments. I really appreciate the help.