Coral Project Talk
This plugin replaces standard WordPress commenting with Talk from the Coral Project.
Setup
First, you'll need a server running your own instance of Talk. See the Talk installation guide for more info about that.
Then...
- Add the hostname of your WordPress site to the whitelist in the settings of your Talk instance.
- Install and activate this plugin as you would any other WordPress plugin.
- Go to
https://mysite.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=talk-settings - Enter the URL of your Talk instance and click Save.
HTTPS and Dev Mode
Your site must be served over https in order to integrate with Talk unless Talk is set to dev mode.
If you're installing Talk with Docker, you can do that by adding NODE_ENV=dev to the environment variables in your docker-compose.yml. Otherwise, any method of setting process.env.NODE_ENV = 'dev' will do the trick.
Theme usage
If your theme uses WordPress' standard comments_template() to render comments forms, the output will be overridden by the Talk embed code.
If you are building a custom theme, we recommend using coral_talk_comments_template() instead of the usual comments_template() for performance reasons.
Note that comments can still be turned on or off for an invidual post:
comments_open() will still work when Coral Project Talk is active, but other functions like get_comments_number() that reference the wp_comments database table may not.
We recommend something like:
if ( comments_open() ) {
coral_talk_comments_template();
}