Neil Hall

Hi Alex

I have been doing a bit of further investigation to see if I can get this to work. I have now disabled the TinyMCE Comment Field plugin.

Instead I have entered some code in to my functions.php.

/*
==========================================================
WYSIWYG comments
==========================================================
*/
add_filter( 'comment_form_field_comment', 'comment_editor' );
 
function comment_editor() {
  global $post;
 
  ob_start();
 
  wp_editor( '', 'comment', array(
    'textarea_rows' => 15,
    'teeny' => true,
    'quicktags' => true,
    'media_buttons' => true
  ) );
  $editor = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();
  return $editor;
}

This renders in the page correctly, and the user can type their review.

The problem I have is that in visual mode when the ‘Post Review’ button is clicked the message comes up saying “Please type a Review”. However, when the text option is used then it will save correctly.

I can understand why because in text mode it still keeps the textarea name=comment. But if this is switched to visual mode it adds a number of iframes, html, body etc. Although the text area is still there.

I have burnt out google trying to find a solution but without succeeding. Do you know if there is a way in which I can fix this? The only way I have done it so far is use version 1.39 of GeoDirectory Review Rating Manager, but that is not the best solution moving forward, and I did notice it also does not refresh the comment box when submitted in ‘visual’ mode.

Best Regards
Neil

Hi Kiran

Many thanks for your help. That does submit a warning on the other browsers. I’ll see what I can come u with to stop it submitting the form.

Best Regards
Neil

Hi Paolo

It does work in Chrome and Firefox, but I needed to enclose it with script

<script>if (jQuery('textarea#post_desc').length ) {
jQuery('textarea#post_desc').attr('minlength', "100");
} </script>

For some reason it does not seem to work in Internet Explorer, Safari

Best Regards
Neil

Weird Science. Thank you for letting me know.