[default][punquin][notepad][refried paper][clean and simple][magazine] Changing Comment Link Text

[howto_user]

The following overrides allow you to change the text of comment links in the Default LiveJournal, Punquin Elegant w/Sidebar, Notepad, Refried Paper, Clean and Simple, and Magazine system styles. If you use these overrides with any other style, they may cause your journal to display incorrectly, such as changing the location of your comment links.

Each style has three sets of overrides, one for each of the three journal views. LASTN overrides affect the Recent Entries page, FRIENDS overrides affect the Friends page, and DAY overrides affect the Day page, which is accessible through the Calendar view. If you are not using the same style on all three of these views, then you may need to combine overrides from multiple tutorials in order to use the correct override for each combination of styles and views.

LASTN View:

LASTN_TALK_READLINK<=
%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%% |
<=LASTN_TALK_READLINK

LASTN_TALK_LINKS<=

(%%readlink%% share your thoughts)

<=LASTN_TALK_LINKS
FRIENDS View:

FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK<=
%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%% |
<=FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK

FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS<=

(%%readlink%% share your thoughts)

<=FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS
DAY View:

DAY_TALK_READLINK<=
%%messagecount%% thought%%mc-plural-s%% |
<=DAY_TALK_READLINK

DAY_TALK_LINKS<=

(%%readlink%% share your thoughts)

<=DAY_TALK_LINKS
Change share your thoughts to the word or phrase you want to use as a link to post a new comment and change thought to the word or phrase you want displayed when there is one comment on an entry.

The S1 style system supports four forms of pluralization for comment links. If the word can be pluralized by adding "s" to the end, you do not need to change %%mc-plural-s%% at all. For other pluralizations, you should make the following changes:
Add "es": Change %%mc-plural-s%% to %%mc-plural-es%%. Change "y" to "ies": Remove the "y" from the word and change %%mc-plural-s%% to %%mc-plural-ies%%. Singular and plural are the same: Remove %%mc-plural-s%%.
If you want to use a pluralization method that is not listed here, it may be possible through the advanced overrides described in the Extended Comments Links Pluralization tutorial.
Variable References:

• LASTN_TALK_LINKS
• LASTN_TALK_READLINK
• FRIENDS_TALK_LINKS
• FRIENDS_TALK_READLINK
• DAY_TALK_LINKS
• DAY_TALK_READLINK

Additional References:

• What are overrides? How do they work?

Contributed by alsatia.