Settings

django-comments-dab has a few configuration options that allow you to customize it.

PROFILE_APP_NAME

The django app that contains the model that has user profiles. This will be used to display profile pictures alongside the comments. Defaults to None.

PROFILE_MODEL_NAME

The model that contains the user profiles. This will be used in display profile pictures alongside the comments. Defaults to None.

COMMENT_PROFILE_API_FIELDS

This will only be useful if PROFILE_APP_NAME and PROFILE_MODEL_NAME are defined in your settings.py. By default all fields in profile model will be nested inside the user object in JSON response. In case you would like to serialize particular fields in the profile model you should explicitly declare the COMMENT_PROFILE_API_FIELDS tuple inside your settings.py:

PROFILE_APP_NAME = 'accounts'
PROFILE_MODEL_NAME = 'userprofile'
# the field names below must be similar to your profile model fields
COMMENT_PROFILE_API_FIELDS = ('display_name', 'birth_date', 'image')

COMMENT_USER_API_FIELDS

The fields returned for the user serializer by the REST API. Defaults to ['id', 'username', 'email'].

COMMENT_FLAGS_ALLOWED

Number of flags allowed before a comment is termed as flagged for review. Defaults to 10. To disable the flagging feature set this as None or 0.

COMMENT_SHOW_FLAGGED

Should flagged comment be shown or not? Defaults to False.

COMMENT_FLAG_REASONS

The reasons for which a comment can be flagged. Users will have a choose one of these before they flag a comment. This a list of tuples. Defaults to:

from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

[
    (1, _('Spam | Exists only to promote a service')),
    (2, _('Abusive | Intended at promoting hatred')),
]

COMMENT_URL_PREFIX

The prefix to be used when assigning a urlhash to a comment. Defaults to 'comment-'.

COMMENT_URL_SUFFIX

The prefix to be used when assigning a urlhash to a comment. Defaults to ''.

COMMENT_URL_ID_LENGTH

The length of the unique id generated for urlhash to a comment. Defaults to 8.

COMMENT_PER_PAGE

No. of comments to be displayed per page. Defaults to 10. To disable pagination, set it to None.

COMMENT_ORDER_BY

Order parent comments in a specific order. Defaults to ['-posted'].

Note

Allowed order should contain a combination of any of the following values without repeating themselves.

Value	Comment Ordered By
`posted`	Date posted, ascendingly
`-posted`	Date posted, descending
`reaction__likes`	Like count, ascendingly
`-reaction__likes`	Like count, descendingly
`reaction__dislikes`	Dislike count, ascendingly
`-reaction__dislikes`	Dislike count, descendingly
`?`	Random

COMMENT_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS

Should the anonymous commenting featured be allowed? Defaults to False.

COMMENT_FROM_EMAIL

The email address to be used for sending email for comment confirmation. Defaults to the value of EMAIL_HOST_USER.

COMMENT_CONTACT_EMAIL

Used for contact address in confirmation emails. For e.g. contact@domain. Defaults to the value of COMMENT_FROM_EMAIL.

COMMENT_SEND_HTML_EMAIL

Should the email to be sent for confirmation contain html part as well? Defaults to True.

COMMENT_ANONYMOUS_USERNAME

Username to be shown beside anonymous comment. Defaults to Anonymous User.

COMMENT_USE_EMAIL_FIRST_PART_AS_USERNAME

Whether to use the first part of the email address as username for anonymous comments? For e.g. for user@domain, user will be used. Defaults to False.

COMMENT_USE_GRAVATAR

Whether to use gravatar for displaying profile pictures alongside comments. Defaults to False.

COMMENT_ALLOW_SUBSCRIPTION

Allow threads subscription feature. Defaults to False.

COMMENT_WRAP_CONTENT_WORDS

Number of comment content to be show and the rest of words to be wrapped. Default is 30. Changing it to 0 or None no words will be wrapped (Full content is shown/rendered).

COMMENT_DEFAULT_PROFILE_PIC_LOC

Provides an alternate location for profile picture that can be used other than default image. Defaults to ‘/static/img/default.png’

COMMENT_ALLOW_BLOCKING_USERS

Enable blocking system. This gives only admins the right. Default to False

COMMENT_ALLOW_MODERATOR_TO_BLOCK

Allow moderators to perform blocking action when COMMENT_ALLOW_BLOCKING_USERS is enabled. Default to False

COMMENT_RESPONSE_FOR_BLOCKED_USER

The response message for blocking reason. Default to You cannot perform this action at the moment! Contact the admin for more details

COMMENT_ALLOW_MARKDOWN

Enable rendering comment content in markdown format. Defaults to False.

Note

When markdown format is being used to render content, no content wrapping is done. Passing a value for wrapping to the render_content template tag in such situations will raise a RuntimeWarning.

COMMENT_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS

The list of extensions to be used for the rendering the markdown. Defaults to ['markdown.extensions.fenced_code']. See python markdown’s documentation for more information on this.

Note

Both COMMENT_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS and COMMENT_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIG will only be used when COMMENT_ALLOW_MARKDOWN is set to True.

COMMENT_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS

The configuration used for markdown-extensions. Defaults to {}. See python markdown’s documentation for more information.