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Use iWeb's .Mac comment system without iWeb
Authored by: CArringt on Sep 27, '06 08:51:42AM

So does this mean that you are able to use other bloging setups? like wordpress or b2evolution?

I'm about to help my mom build her own website using iWeb and part of it will be a weblog, but she doesn't have a .mac account. she has a hosted server and a registered domain. Will this help me?



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Use iWeb's .Mac comment system without iWeb
Authored by: simX on Sep 27, '06 09:14:19AM

Nope. You'll need a .mac account to use the .mac commenting system. So if you don't have a .mac account, you'll still need to use something like HaloScan.

This hint is for those who post their weblogs on the .mac server using some static weblog creation app (iBlog, for instance), and who don't want to pay for/use ad-supported external commenting services.



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Use iWeb's .Mac comment system without iWeb
Authored by: simX on Sep 27, '06 09:22:40AM

I suppose to more directly answer your question: will this work with WordPress, etc.? Answer: I'm not sure. The only weblog app that I've definitely tested this with is iBlog, but there's no fundamental reason why you wouldn't be able to use it with WordPress or something else. You just have to add some HTML and some JavaScript to your weblog templates. In the case of WordPress, though, I think that already supports comments (since it's a dynamically-generated weblog as opposed to a static one like weblogs created with iBlog), so I'm not sure why you would want to use .mac comments instead.

But again, you'll need a paid .mac account in order for this to work.



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