Blog comments gone...

I suppose I know the answer to this, but after several problems publishing, I "published all to mobileme" and all of the comments disappeared from my blogs.
Unfortunately, this is a business for us, and we had multiple blogs with hundreds of comments. Is there a way to retrieve them at all?
I host my iweb site on another server, but still keep links to iweb for blogs simply for the ability to comment. This will likely hurry my shift to a more stable platform if I can feel more secure.
Anyone have any ideas?
my site: http://beekman1802.com/1802_homepage.html

joshkp wrote:
Is there a way to retrieve them at all?
Not according to this old thread:
You don't mention having just upgraded to iWeb 2.x, so presumably that isn't the issue described in this Apple doc:
_iWeb: Preserving website comments when upgrading from iWeb 1.x to 2.0_
You also appear to be forwarding correctly to the new me.com URL as described in this Apple doc:
_MobileMe: Unable to add comments to blog pages_.

Similar Messages

After installing iWeb 08 (vers 2.0.1) - Blog comments missing

Originally my web site was created and maintained by iWeb '06 and resides on my .Mac web space. It contained several blog entries and associated comments (as it's a site I set up to commemorate the death of my partner's son). I've just updated to iWeb 08 and when using it for the first time it asked that the site is updated to work with the new version - which I did. I then published the site (though I'd made no changes). Unfortunately, though the blog entries are still there, all the comments we had received from the site visitors have gone missing.
I don't want to try an re-publish the site until I know whether I've lost forever all the comments. Unfortunately, I've not made a back up for the site for many months (my stupid mistake). Is there anyway of getting these comments back.
Any help will be very gratefully received.
Paul

Just updated with iWeb 08 and have the exact same problem. It's a shame when you spend so much time putting together a site and you lose something as valuable as blog comments. I now have dual websites. One updated and the other with comments I want to keep but can't update. Now I have to make everyone know there was also a change in the web address. Bummer. Major disappointment.

How do I hide HTML hyperlink code in Blog comments?

How do I hide HTML code for hyperlinks in blog commments? Here's the background:
I happily and easily include text hyperlinks all over the place in my website, using iWeb. I can even do this when creating a new entry in my blog. In all cases, the actual HTML code is hidden, and the hyperlinked text is, as usual, in a different color (to indicate that it's a link).
However, let's say someone leaves a comment to a blog entry, and I want to respond using the Comments box when I'm viewing the blog online, via Safari or IE or Firefox. And let's say I type a word that I want to also use as a hyperlink, that will take someone to another website.
So far, the only way I've discovered to add hyperlinks in a Comment is to actually type the HTML command right in the Comments text box (then add my name, URL, type in the secret image verification code and click "Add Comment").
When the new comment, with hyperlink, appears on the blog entry page, the hyperlink is active -- however, the entire HTML code also shows up. For example, here's what appears, on-screen, when I want someone to click "here" to get to my website landing page:
Click (a href="http://www.davidalanmoore.com")here(/a) to go to my homepage.
NOTE: I used parens instead of carats in the line, above, in order to show what actually happens in the real world... unfortunately, this forum is so well done that it actually read my carats, created a real hyperlink and hid the HTML -- which is what DOESN'T happen in the blog comments!
How do I hide everything but the word "here," without losing the hyperlink?
Thanks in advance!
iMac Intel Duo Core and iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac Intel Duo Core and iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Yes, the http:// part does make it become a hyperlink, as in the example I noted in my question. That is, the hyperlink works... it's just that all of the HTML code that makes it a link is also visible.
For example, take a look at the following sentence, that includes a hyperlink -- a hyperlink for which Apple's Discussion Forums automatically reads the HTML correctly, hides the code, and turns the text for the word "here" into a different-colored hyperlink:
"Click here to go to the comments page where I'm having the problem."
Now compare that hyperlink to the way a hyperlink actually appears in a "Comment." Click the word "here" in the sentence just above this one. You'll be sent to a blog entry on my website. If you look at the fourth comment on that page you'll see what iWeb does to a hyperlink: it creates link that works, but it also shows all the HTML code (e.g., "(a href="http//..... etc., etc.).
I'm trying to make that code invisible in the Comments, as it is invisible on these discussion boards. (See two paragraphs above: a link, but no visible HTML code.)
I'm not sure if I'm making sense... I'm just trying to be thorough so people don't accidentally waste their time answering a question I'm not asking. Bottom line, I don't want the HTML code visible, on-screen, when I create a hyperlink in a blog comment.

Email notification of blog comments

Does anyone know if .mac offers instant email notification when someone leaves a comment on your blog? If so, how do I turn that on?
Before switching to iWeb 08, I used RapidWeaver to create my blog, hosted it on a server other than .mac, and used Haloscan to manage the comments. Instant email notification on all blog comments was a feature of Haloscan that I was hoping to have with .mac as well.
Anybody know? Thanks

iComment didn't need to be updated to be used with iWeb '08 it just worked well with it and it still does.
The good thing about iComment, despite the e-mail notification, is that you can add comments to every page you like, not only on blogs and PhotoPages like .Mac's Comments.
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWebFeedbackComments.html
Regards,
Cédric

Does iWeb blogging (comments, etc.) only work when published to .Mac?

The subject says it all, but I was wondering how well the blog features of iWeb work when publishing to a non-.Mac host.
Right now I use WordPress for my blog. Is iWeb's blog feature a reasonable alternative?
doug

The iWeb features which are .Mac only are: Direct one-step uploading, Password protection, Hit counter, Slideshow with viewing controls, and Blog Comments/Searching.

Blog comments not working

Hi anyone having problems with their blog comments ?
i cannot post any comment onto the blog page not on my own page or on the page of my girlfriend.
as she is currently for 3 months in africa it's a big problem bye bye communication...
anybody any idea's ? it seems the pop up windows where you write the comment isn't functioning correctly there are some pictures missing the text is all there but if you write a comment and click on the add comment text it doesn't work.
Strange thing as it was working fine yesterday. and it hasn't been updates since then...
anyone an idea or some help on the issue ?
Message was edited by: Gert Poelmans

I just got really, really nasty with Apple Care (who wanted to charge me; I wasn't haven't it) and mobileme support.
The problem is on their end. They have finally identified the problem, and are trying to fix it. They said not to change any settings on the iweb site. They said they should have the problem fixed within 24 hours.
For right now, I've embedded a nabble mini-forum on new posts so that people can comment.

Iweb'09 blog comments and google analytics

My apologies if this has been asked before.
My blog no longer allows comments. This occurred when I used the Automator program to add google analytics to my site. The good news is that google analytics does work. I host the site on mobile me so I have 2 questions
(1) Is there a way to get google analytics to work and allow blog comments within a moble me hosted site?
if not, how can I remove google analytics to restore the blog comment capability and is there a monitoring package available within the mobile me world?
thanks

I had the same problem. From the little research I've done it appears that you can't have the comments on and run GA at the same time. I have seen some messages on here that claimed to move a picture on the pages that had comments in order to restore the ones that were lost. I didn't have any luck with it.
Here's and interesting site that references it in the comments section.
http://allaboutiweb.com/index.php/2009/01/why-use-google-analytics-iweb/

IWeb'09 Blog Comments and non mobile hosting

Is there a workaround to enable blog comments if you are not using mobile me to host your website.
Also, is there a reason (other than driving more business to the mobile me service) that blog comments don't automatically work with other sites?
thanks
Miles

Is there a workaround to enable blog comments if you are not using mobile me to host your website.
Haloscan is one.
Also, is there a reason (other than driving more business to the mobile me service) that blog comments don't automatically work with other sites?
The system used to create them depends on software located on the MobileMe server.

Google Analytics Automator breaks iWeb blog comments

Hi
I added a blog for our Small Business site that I created with iWeb. We used Google Analytics and the Automator script add the HTML snippet to track visits on our site. Since I added the blog I realized that after running the GA automator script the "Add a comment" link disappears.
Kinda defeats the purpose of the blog. I have to choose between tracking how many visitors have been on the blog, or visitors posting comments, but I can't have both. How can I fix this and track how many visitors were on our site, and have a blog where visitors can leave comments? Any ideas and solutions would be most welcome. Thanks,
Zoltan

Unfortunately, as you have discovered, inserting Google Analytics into your site requires post editing. This means that you cannot just publish directly to MobileMe from iWeb - to insert the analytics you need to publish to a folder, insert and then place the Blog directly on your iDisk - unfortunately, this way you loose the features that your iWeb blog provides when published directly to MME - i.e. Blog comments.
Do you have an ordinary website too or is it just a blog? If you have an ordinary website, what some people do, including myself, is set up a blog with WordPress, E-blogger, or http://www.posterous.com and link to it from your iWeb site.
If you are just after setting up a blog on its own without a site, then I would suggest you look at http://www.wordpress.com, http://www.eblogger.com or posterous (link provided). You can set up a blog with any template you like and can add entries on line at any time, rather than being limited to updating with the domain.sites file as you are with iWeb.
In WordPress, you can also add as many pages as you like, so you can effectively have a website as well as a blog, so the other alternatives might be a better bet than iWeb and I think they have their own built in analytics too.

Google Analytics breaks iWeb blog comments

Does anybody know a workaround for Google Analytics' breaking of iWeb blog comments? Apparently, from some posts I've read, StatCounter and other traffic stat services break iWeb blog comments, too... so it's apparently an iWeb issue rather than a Google Analytics issue. FWIW, I'm publishing to my MobileMe personal domain. Thanks in advance!

I found a decent way of adding Google Analytics to all pages, without using HTML Snippits (which cause analytics to track those odd page names like widget2_markup.html), that doesn't break MobileMe comments, and doesn't require any post-processing of your iWeb site. Just Publish and go! Open up your iWeb app bundle, and drill down to Contents/Resources/Scripts/Site. Open up the file iWebSite.js in TextEdit (or your favorite text editor), and paste the following at the bottom of the file:
// Begin Google Analytics
gaTrackerId = 'ss-ddddddd-d'; // insert your tracker id here
document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
var gaJsHost = ( ('https:' == document.location.protocol) ? 'https://ssl.' : 'http://www.') + 'google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var script = new Element('script', { 'src': gaJsHost});
var gaTrack = function() {
if (
!script.readyState
|| /loaded|complete/.test(script.readyState)
var pageTracker = gat.getTracker(gaTrackerId);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
script.observe('load', gaTrack);
script.observe('readystatechange', gaTrack);
document.body.appendChild(script);
// End Google Analytics
Credit to this solution goes to this blog post. I got the idea to find a way of using Google Analytics in Prototype (since iWeb sites use the Prototype JavaScript framework) and found that blog snippit.
And yes, since this is editing the iWeb application bundle, you may need to reapply this hack if/when iWeb is updated. Hopefully though, some enterprising iWeb engineer is reading this and will add proper Google Analytics support to iWeb for us.

Iweb blog comments

Hi people,
Could somebody help me?
i have published my site at www.dubkasm.com and used a blog page as a comments book, only when i publish the site there is no section like 'add comment' or 'post message'. How can i do this? Any help much appreciated!
Cheers,
Ben (Brazil)

Try searching the forum as this has been covered before.
As far as I can remeber Blog comments created through iWeb are stored server side on .Mac somewhere, so exporting your site to another domain, other than .Mac, will make comments inactive.

How to style the blog comments form

Hi
Is there a way to style and remove html syntax such as <br> from the blog comments form?
see screen shot.
Thanks

I've come up with a solution. By listening for ToolTipEvent.TOOL_TIP_SHOW on the data grid with capture, true the event handler has access the toolTip and can use the setStyle method of toolTip to change the styles.

Enabling blog comments is not working for me

I have a site with a blog, but checking the blog enabling checkbox does not enable blog comments. Any clues?
Thanks.
Ed

There are other things that need your attention regarding modified prefs that show in your system details list.
Reset the general.useragent.compatMode.firefox to false and all network.http prefs on the <b>about:config</b> page.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
What is the value of the browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo pref?
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo

Since installing FF 5.0, I can't leave blog comments on Fox News

since installing FF 5.0, I can't leave blog comments on Fox News. The blog section looks like it is trying to load, but doesn't.

firefox, add ons, plugins are all up to date. FYI I can log onto MSIE and there is no problem blogging on Foxnews. I also ran with add ons disabled and that did not help. Logically it appears the problem is with Firefox, since I update to 5.0.1.

Major problem with the BLOG COMMENT SYSTEM - Please advice.

Hi there!
I am having some trouble with the way the added Blog comments system appears on my iWeb created site's blog section. The "Add a comment" etc, always get pushed down into the black browser background everytime a new comment gets added rather then the page background actually expanding WITH the added comments and being a part of the page background. Below you'll find a pic of the phenomenon...
Please help, is it supposed to be like this and i'm doing something wrong or is it a bug in the software?
I have to add more footer height to the page for every comment that someone will leave me on the blog, otherwise the comments will end up outside the page.
The page is not yet live and ready but it's like this with all major browsers and platforms when checking...FF, Safari, IE - Mac and PC...
So, the pics...the first pic is of how it looks inside the iWeb software and is how it should look obviously..the second...well, is how it looks when actually published. It's driving me crazy! I don't want to set the footer height to 1000 to prepare the pages for future comments as it looks real bad. The page should expand with the added comments.
[IMG]http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q181/GentleMidget/Temp%20folder/BLOGCOMMENTPR OBLEM1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q181/GentleMidget/Temp%20folder/BLOGCOMMENTPR OBLEM2.jpg[/IMG]
/Rich
Right now? Intel mini Mac OS X (10.4.8) A few laptops, a few stationary ones...i like macs
Right now? Intel mini Mac OS X (10.4.8) A few laptops, a few stationary ones...i like macs
Right now? Intel mini Mac OS X (10.4.8) A few laptops, a few stationary ones...i like macs

Thank you, i'll get on it.
***** though, as i can't achieve the same effect with one colore based backgrounds.
Why don't Apple just fix it in one of their updates? Left a bug report as this need to be fixed.

Blog comments gone...

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for