In order to use Django-comments-xtd it is required to declare the setting COMMENTS_APP:
COMMENTS_APP = "django_comments_xtd"
A number of additional settings are available to customize django-comments-xtd behaviour.
COMMENTS_XTD_MAX_THREAD_LEVEL - Maximum Thread Level
Optional
Indicate the maximum thread level for comments.
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_MAX_THREAD_LEVEL = 8
Defaults to 0. What means threads are not permitted.
COMMENTS_XTD_MAX_THREAD_LEVEL_BY_APP_MODEL - Maximum Thread Level per app.model basis
Optional
A dictionary with app_label.model as keys and the maximum thread level for comments posted to instances of those models as values. It allows definition of max comment thread level on a per app_label.model basis.
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_MAX_THREAD_LEVEL = 0
COMMENTS_XTD_MAX_THREAD_LEVEL_BY_MODEL = {
'projects.release': 2,
'blog.stories': 8, 'blog.quotes': 8,
'blog.diarydetail': 0 # not required as it defaults to COMMENTS_XTD_MAX_THREAD_LEVEL
}
COMMENTS_XTD_CONFIRM_EMAIL - Confirm Comment Post by Email
Optional
This setting establishes whether a comment confirmation should be sent by email. If set to True a confirmation message is sent to the user with a link she has to click on. If the user is already authenticated the confirmation is not sent.
If is set to False the comment is accepted (unless your discard it by returning False when receiving the signal comment_will_be_posted, defined by the Django Comments Framework).
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_CONFIRM_EMAIL = True
Defaults to True.
COMMENTS_XTD_FORM_CLASS - Form class to use when rendering comment forms.
Optional
A classpath to the form class that will be used for comments.
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_FORM_CLASS = "mycomments.forms.MyCommentForm"
Defaults to “django_comments_xtd.forms.XtdCommentForm”.
COMMENTS_XTD_MODEL - Model to use
Optional
A classpath to the model that will be used for comments.
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_MODEL = "mycomments.models.MyCommentModel"
Defaults to “django_comments_xtd.models.XtdComment”.
COMMENTS_XTD_SALT - Extra key to salt the form
Optional
This setting establishes the ASCII string extra_key used by signed.dumps to salt the comment form hash. As signed.dumps docstring says, just in case you’re worried that the NSA might try to brute-force your SHA-1 protected secret.
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_SALT = 'G0h5gt073h6gH4p25GS2g5AQ25hTm256yGt134tMP5TgCX$&HKOYRV'
Defaults to an empty string.
COMMENTS_XTD_SEND_HTML_EMAIL - Enable/Disable HTML email messages
Optional
This boolean setting establishes whether email messages have to be sent in HTML format. By the default messages are sent in both Text and HTML format. By disabling the setting email messages will be sent only in Text format.
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_SEND_HTML_EMAIL = True
Defaults to True.
COMMENTS_XTD_THREADED_EMAILS - Enable/Disable sending emails in separeate threads
Optional
For low traffic websites sending emails in separate threads is a fine solution. However, for medium to high traffic websites such overhead could be reduce by using other solutions, like a Celery application.
An example:
COMMENTS_XTD_THREADED_EMAILS = True
Defaults to True.