I have a Drupal 7 sub-theme based on Bootstrap 3 theme, the comment admin page (http://www.example.com/comment/46849/edit?destination=admin/content/comment/approval) looks as shown below. It is however missing the ability to edit Author and Url fields. I would like to know which template file I need to edit to get this functionality.
If, for some reason, the whole Author fieldset is hidden, be sure to check the HTML first, then you can also use the devel module for some dpm-ing in yourtheme_form_comment_form_alter.
Something like this should force the fieldset to be rendered:
function yourtheme_form_comment_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
$form['author']['#access'] = user_access('administer comments');
}
As a partial alternative to the "comment admin page" which is "missing the ability to edit Author and Url fields": how about using something like the "Seven" theme as your "Administration theme"? By using that theme, and navigating to admin/content/comment, you can use the "edit" link to the right, so that you'll be able to edit fields like "Author" from there.
For the sake of completenes, be aware that there is a Bootstrap issue about styling comments which I believe is somehow related to this question (current status = postphoned). And it has this related issue: Add a comment.tpl.php to base theme, in which it says "There is no comment.tpl.php in the base themes, so it is pulled from core."
According to the first issue, it seems that it might be a good idea to use some of the typical alternatives for styling comments using bootstrap, or any of its sub-themes. I.e. something like Panels or Display Suite.
Use the administration theme when editing or creating content setting but as soon as I click the edit link of a comment I get transferred to a url like http://www.example.com/comment/46899/edit?destination=admin/content/comment/approval and it switches to Bootstrap theme.
Commented
May 21, 2015 at 14:59
admin section and applies the bootstrap theme. The problem seems to be with Bootstrap the code <legend class="panel-heading"> <a href="#edit-author" class="panel-title fieldset-legend" data-toggle="collapse">Administration</a> </legend> <div id="edit-author" class="panel-collapse collapse fade"> not rendering the Panel for some reason, if the panel is rendered it can be clicked to un-collapse the required content.
Commented
May 21, 2015 at 15:24
hook_custom_theme, check if it is a comment page, and return the seven theme. This should be done in a custom module.
Following custom css in my sub-theme fixed this:
.region-content .comment-form fieldset.collapsible {
float: left;
position: relative;
display: block;
width:100%;
}
body .region-content .comment-form div fieldset.panel.panel-default .panel-heading {
display:block;
width:100%;
}
body .comment-form div .panel-collapse.collapse.fade {
display:block;
}
.comment-form div .form-item.form-item-subject.form-type-textfield.form-group {
clear: both;
display: block;
}
You can't edit author of the comment. Why would you want to change the name of the person who wrote the comment anyways? Unless... you want to allow anonymous user's to post comments, you would have to go into user permissions and check box that field.
If you want to add the ability for urls, you need to install a module for that.
