Default Expanded Comments/Threads

Hi - How do you have the topics and threads default to expanded on a blog page? Right now it only provides a link to read/expand the comments. What is the setting to default to expanded as in the below demo site:
http://www.chronoengine.com/home/1-latest/69-chronocomments-released.html

Thanks.

Hi, this depends on the page type you are viewing, this is an article page and so all comments will be expanded, how does your page look like ?

Max

It is a section blog layout in the rhuk_milkyway included template in Joomla - I have adjusted the included layout to have a given article fully displayed on the entire page - there is nothing below the article (but i have some right-aligned mods). I would like the comments to default as expanded underneath the article. Thanks!

Hi av1,

The comments will NOT expand in a blog page, if this is necessary then you can just hack the plugin file under plugins/content/chronocomments.php

Cheers
Max

Is there a major change for this? I am not a programmer, but it looks like what you say might be done within the section below - any quick hints? thanks.

if(JRequest::getVar('view') == 'article'){
			$row->text = $row->text.str_replace("{ALL_COMMENTS}", $comment_items, $comment_form);
			//return true;
		}else{
			if($configs->get('showblogview') == '1'){
				$query = "SELECT * FROM #__chrono_comments WHERE component = '".JRequest::getVar('option')."' AND pageid= '".$pageid."' AND published='1' AND verify='1' ORDER BY datetime ASC";
				$database->setQuery( $query );
				$blogcomments = $database->loadObjectList();
				//Get Clean Joomla content item link
				$query = 'SELECT a.*,' .
				' CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(a.alias) THEN CONCAT_WS(":", a.id, a.alias) ELSE a.id END as slug,'.
				' CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(cc.alias) THEN CONCAT_WS(":", cc.id, cc.alias) ELSE cc.id END as catslug'.
				' FROM #__content AS a' .
				' LEFT JOIN #__content_frontpage AS f ON f.content_id = a.id' .
				' INNER JOIN #__categories AS cc ON cc.id = a.catid' .
				' INNER JOIN #__sections AS s ON s.id = a.sectionid' .
				' WHERE a.id='.$row->id;
				$database->setQuery( $query );
				$article = $database->loadObject();
				$page_link = JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($article->slug, $article->catslug, $article->sectionid));
				//end link
				$language = '<br /><a href="'.$page_link.'#comments">'.JText::_( 'READ N COMMENTS' )."</a>";
				$row->text = $row->text.str_replace("{n}", count($blogcomments), $language);
				//return true;

			}

		}

	}

}

Hi av1,

not a major change, replace all code after the first }else{ with

$row->text = $row->text.str_replace("{ALL_COMMENTS}", $comment_items, $comment_form);

but leave the last few }

Cheers
Max