change around comments pagespecs

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / comments.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn
index a81cab127881d8c6c8ef25358fd60cf49c3937ca..afaf2c7ae66dfd60985590f4c5ee279f01e0c145 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn
@@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ Individual comments are stored as internal-use pages named something like
 
 There are some global options for the setup file:
 
-* `comments_open_pagespec`: pages where new comments can be posted, e.g.
-  `blog/* and created_after(close_old_comments)` or `!*/discussion`.
-  You need to set this, since the default is to not add comments to any
-  pages.
-* `comments_shown_pagespec`: pages where comments will be displayed inline,
-  e.g. `blog/*` or `!*/discussion`.
+* `comments_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where comments are
+  allowed. The default is not to allow comments on any pages. To allow
+  comments to all posts to a blog, you could use `blog/* and !*/Discussion`.
+* `comments_closed_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where
+  posting of new comments is closed, but any existing comments will still
+  be displayed. Often you will list a set of individual pages here.
+  For example: `blog/controversial or blog/flamewar`
 * `comments_pagename`: if this is e.g. `comment_` (the default), then
   comment pages will be named something like `page/comment_12`
 * `comments_allowdirectives`: if true (default false), comments may