App comment settings

App comment settings allow you to have different types of comments turned on for different types of posts.

One comment setting per type

If an app provides a new content type, like "Person" or "Event", that new content type will have a setting on the App Settings page. At any time, you can enable or disable comments. At any time, you can choose between 3 types of comments: Disqus, Facebook, or Private comments (called "Drupal comments" in 7.x-3.4 and earlier versions).

Comments at the bottom of the page

If you choose a comment setting in App settings, new nodes will be created with that comment form visible to site visitors, at the bottom of the page. If you choose Disqus or Facebook, all site visitors can create free accounts, or use existing accounts, and post comments. If you choose Private comments, only people you add to your site (in CP > People) will have access to log in to your site and post comments.

Posts remember their comments

Once a post gets comments of any kind, by default, that node will keep it's comment setting, even after you change comment settings for that post type.

For example, let's say you enable Private comments on blog posts, and some comments are added to a post called "First post". Now, let's say you change the blog app settings from Private comments to Disqus comments. This means that new blog posts and existing blog posts with no comments will all automatically have Disqus comments, but "First post" will still show it's Private comments.

...But you can change them if you want.

You can "ignore" any existing comments and change old posts to use a new comment setting, but each post can only have one comment setting at a time. This means if you change "First post" in the example above to Disqus comments, it won't display the original Private comments anymore, and will instead show only Disqus comments. To see if any comments of previous settings exist for a post, simply edit the post and look for the "Comment settings" at the bottom of the edit form.