Comments with login

[Tonyjustlasered]

We use comments for our products. In order to combat Spam comments we had to Approve, Bin or Spam comments. Now we have changed to the easycart option "User must be logged in to comment" this is good, but the login is the Wordpress login NOT the wp-easycart account login, which makes sense because Comments are a wordpress function not easycart. So is it possible to switch the login box from wordpress to easycart account login and still be able to action a wordpress Admin login as well?
How have you guys done this? with a plugin or some other way?

[jjones]

So if you see any comments at the bottom of your product, this is likely the wordpress custom post comments, and not something we control or utilize.

If you edit a product, you will see under basic settings you can enable reviews or not. This puts a tab next to the description, not at the bottom of the product. It uses a 5 star rating system, and has some product specific stuff for the review, including that setting in our settings area to 'User must be logged in to comment' which might need to say 'review'. But this is for our own review system and doesn't tie into the wordpress section down at the bottom.

Usually, good themes give you the option to turn off comments on all pages AND posts, but fi they don't, there are comment disabler plugins available that will turn this feature off in wordpress across the board.

thanks

[Tonyjustlasered]

So if you see any comments at the bottom of your product, this is likely the wordpress custom post comments, and not something we control or utilize.

If you edit a product, you will see under basic settings you can enable reviews or not. This puts a tab next to the description, not at the bottom of the product. It uses a 5 star rating system, and has some product specific stuff for the review, including that setting in our settings area to 'User must be logged in to comment' which might need to say 'review'. But this is for our own review system and doesn't tie into the wordpress section down at the bottom.

Usually, good themes give you the option to turn off comments on all pages AND posts, but fi they don't, there are comment disabler plugins available that will turn this feature off in wordpress across the board.

thanks

Sounds like I need to turn off wordpress comments and switch to easycart reviews then. I will investigate and update the resulting action here. Many Thanks

[Tonyjustlasered]

Switched wp-easycart review on for a product, but, have now typed a review twice and it does not appear, why is this?

[jjones]

You are correct, turn off wordpress comments and use our review system, it has ratings and other features.

as for not showing, they don't show automatically, go to your wp easycart console -> products -> reviews and then you can approve them this way... only then will they show up.

thanks

[Tonyjustlasered]

Because there is no one option to completely turn off both old & new wordpress comments, I have installed a plugin called "Disable Comments" this has done the job for us on the wordpress side. Now the Easycart review option works fine but have some usage questions; 1. Can the review box text be changed and a name field added? Noticed in edit of the reviews the Name field is greyed out! 2. Will Easycart send an email to admin when a review requires approving? 3. To approve these reviews we have to edit the review and tick the box "Is review approved...." so is there a shorther route to approve reviews, from an email notification maybe?

[Tonyjustlasered]

Would now like to change the color of the review stars, but my attempts to do this with Custom CSS code in Easycart-Settings-Design does not work.
This is the default CSS code for those rating stars;
.ec_product_details_star_on {

border-bottom-color: #222222 !important;
color: #222222;
border-bottom-color: #222222;

}

So I have changed the #222222 to #8a3bee which is a better color for our theme
BUT,
it doesn't take effect.
Anyone got any ideas why?

This type of change using Custom CSS works well for the Price of products so why won't it work for the stars!