Can we get that from buddypress?
You sure can! The activity feed has AJAX built in so you shouldn’t see page reloading after posting a comment.
If there is ajax functionality, does it do a continuous ‘load more’ or will it paginate after a set amount of comments?
By default, a “Load More” button is displayed which when clicked will load the next 20 items. I believe the activity stream supports paginated pages, but don’t quote me on that right now because I’d need to check.
I’ve installed on a staging server and have started to play around with it. I do see that the activity feed does indeed have ajax for new comments and activity. What I’m seeing is that if I comment on an article, the article is not ajaxified. Is that something that is easy to code into my theme?
Thanks for answering my dumb questions. I spent a long time searching and I can’t seem to find anything else discussing this.
Thanks, Henry.
Some parts of BuddyPress use AJAX and some don’t. It’s common for plugin developers to add their own JavaScript, so feel free. See this article for info:
https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins
MLHS
@maple-leafs-hot-stove
8 years, 7 months ago
We’re looking to change our website around from what it currently is setup as.
The comments section (powered by Disqus) on articles has turned into just a pure live chat and no one really comments on the articles anymore. In fairness, it’s been like that for years.
1. We were wondering if we can get the same functionality from Buddypress that we get from Disqus. We get around 600,000 comments a year and want to have buddypress allow us to manage commenting on the articles with real-time ajax functionality and good mobile commenting capabilities. Then we want that same ajax functionality for groups.
Can we get that from buddypress?
2. If there is ajax functionality, does it do a continuous ‘load more’ or will it paginate after a set amount of comments? We’d love to have pagination to help ease up on some of the length of the page.