Both Paid and Free Accounts have the ability to customize what their comment links say. This FAQ only deals with changing comment links in the S1 style system. If you are using the S2 style system, please see
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=170 for information on how to customize your comment links.
* Paid account holders can create or copy a style and edit the TALK_LINKS and TALK_READLINK within that style.
* Both paid account holders and free account holders can also use override codes to change their comments links. Override codes are to be pasted into the "Style Overrides" box at the bottom of the Modify Journal page (
http://www.livejournal.com/modify.bml).
The override codes you should use depend on which journal style you are using. Be sure to select the proper codes for the layout you are using. Each group contains three smaller sets of overrides:
* The first for your LASTN (Most Recent Events) view.
* The second for your FRIENDS view.
* The third for your DAY (via your Calendar) view.
At most, you should only be using one set of codes for your LASTN view, one for your FRIENDS, and one for your DAY view. If you have more than one style in use on your journal, be sure to choose the correct overrides for that view.
For example, if you are using Generator for your LASTN and DAY views, and Magazine for your FRIENDS view, you should take the LASTN_TALK_READLINK, LASTN_TALK_LINKS, DAY_TALK_READLINK, and DAY_TALK_LINKS from the overrides marked as compatible with "Generator", and the FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK and FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS from the overrides marked as compatible with "Magazine". If you choose the wrong overrides, your journal will not display properly.
The overrides as they appear below will change your comments links to something like "(3 thoughts | share your thoughts)."
Within the codes, look for the words "share your thoughts". You can change these words to whatever you want, and they will replace the standard "comment on this" link text in your journal.
Then, look for the part of the code that looks like this: thought%%mc-plural-s%%
The word "thought" would be the word that becomes plural when you have more than one comment. Change that word to what you want. Before that word, you'll see %%messagecount%%, which simply displays the number you see whenever you have comments.
%%mc-plural-s%% is what automatically pluralizes the word for you, when needed.
However, if your word needs to end in "es", like "kisses", replace %%mc-plural-s%% with %%mc-plural-es%%, like so: kiss%%mc-plural-es%% . If your word ends with "y" and thus needs to be pluralized with "ies", as in "replies", use %%mc-plural-ies%% instead of %%mc-plural-s%%, like so: repl%%mc-plural-ies%% .
The style system only supports the above three basic pluralization techniques. If you want a pluralization that isn't supported, you can use the advanced instructions at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/howto/16395.html.
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GROUP ONE
Compatible with: Default LiveJournal, Punquin Elegant w/Sidebar, Notepad, Refried Paper, Clean and Simple, Magazine
LASTN_TALK_READLINK<=
<A HREF="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</A> |
<=LASTN_TALK_READLINK
LASTN_TALK_LINKS<=
<P ALIGN="right" CLASS="comments"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"
SIZE=1>(%%readlink%%<A HREF="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</A>)</FONT></P>
<=LASTN_TALK_LINKS
FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK<=
<A HREF="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</A> |
<=FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK
FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS<=
<P ALIGN="RIGHT" CLASS="comments"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"
SIZE=1>(%%readlink%%<A HREF="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</A>)</FONT></P>
<=FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS
DAY_TALK_READLINK<=
<A HREF="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</A> |
<=DAY_TALK_READLINK
DAY_TALK_LINKS<=
<P ALIGN="RIGHT" class="comments"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"
SIZE=1>(%%readlink%%<A HREF="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</A>)</FONT></P>
<=DAY_TALK_LINKS
*
GROUP TWO
Compatible with: Generator
LASTN_TALK_READLINK<=
<a href="%%urlread%%"><b>%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</b></a>|
<=LASTN_TALK_READLINK
LASTN_TALK_LINKS<=
<tr>
<td align="right" colspan="2" width="100%" bgcolor="%%color:weak_back%%" class="comments">
%%readlink%%<a href="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</a>
</td>
</tr>
<=LASTN_TALK_LINKS
FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK<=
<a href="%%urlread%%"><b>%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</b></a>|
<=FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK
FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS<=
<tr>
<td align="right" colspan="2" width="100%" bgcolor="%%color:weak_back%%" class="comments">
%%readlink%%<a href="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</a>
</td>
</tr>
<=FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS
DAY_TALK_READLINK<=
<a href="%%urlread%%"><b>%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</b></a>|
<=DAY_TALK_READLINK
DAY_TALK_LINKS<=
<tr>
<td align="right" colspan="2" width="100%" bgcolor="%%color:weak_back%%" class="comments">
%%readlink%%<a href="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</a>
</td>
</tr>
<=DAY_TALK_LINKS
*
GROUP THREE
Compatible with: Tabular Indent
LASTN_TALK_READLINK<=
<A HREF="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</A> -
<=LASTN_TALK_READLINK
LASTN_TALK_LINKS<=
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="%%color:weak_back%%" class="comments">
<FONT COLOR="%%color:weak_text%%">
<NOBR>
Comments: %%readlink%%<A HREF="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</A>.
</NOBR>
</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
<=LASTN_TALK_LINKS
FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK<=
<A HREF="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</A> -
<=FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK
FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS<=
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="%%color:weak_back%%" class="comments">
<FONT COLOR="%%color:weak_text%%">
<NOBR>
Comments: %%readlink%%<A HREF="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</A>.
</NOBR>
</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
<=FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS
DAY_TALK_READLINK<=
<A HREF="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</A> -
<=DAY_TALK_READLINK
DAY_TALK_LINKS<=
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="%%color:weak_back%%" class="comments">
<FONT COLOR="%%color:weak_text%%">
<NOBR>
Comments: %%readlink%%<A HREF="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</A>.
</NOBR>
</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
<=DAY_TALK_LINKS
*
GROUP FOUR
Compatible with: Disjointed
LASTN_TALK_READLINK<=
<a href="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</a> -
<=LASTN_TALK_READLINK
LASTN_TALK_LINKS<=
%%readlink%%<a href="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</a>
<=LASTN_TALK_LINKS
FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK<=
<a href="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</a> -
<=FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK
FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS<=
%%readlink%%<a href="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</a>
<=FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS
DAY_TALK_READLINK<=
<a href="%%urlread%%">%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%%</a> -
<=DAY_TALK_READLINK
DAY_TALK_LINKS<=
%%readlink%%<a href="%%urlpost%%">share your thoughts</a>
<=DAY_TALK_LINKS
*
FURTHER READING
» How do I make a custom S1 style?
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=128
» Why is my Modify Journal page missing some options?
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=174.
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