Introduction

plone.app.discussion is the commenting add-on for Plone. It is part of the maintained Plone core.

Installation

If your installation depends on the Plone <https://pypi.org/project/Plone/>_ package, you can install it via the Plone control panel. In case you do only depend on either the plone.volto, plone.classicui or Products.CMFPlone package, you need to add it to your requirements file. After adding it and installing the requirement, you can install it via the Plone control panel.

Spam protection

These days it is essential to protect your site from commenting spam. The following add-ons can help to protect your site:

• plone.formwidget.captcha <https://pypi.org/project/plone.formwidget.captcha/>_ (for Captcha spam protection)

• plone.formwidget.recaptcha <https://pypi.org/project/plone.formwidget.recaptcha/>_ (for ReCaptcha spam protection)

• collective.z3cform.norobots <https://pypi.org/project/collective.z3cform.norobots/>_ (provides a "human" captcha widget based on a list of questions/answers)

• plone.formwidget.hcaptcha <https://pypi.org/project/plone.formwidget.hcaptcha/> (for spam protection by HCaptcha <https://www.hcaptcha.com/> )

Documentation

For further information, please refer to the official Plone documentation <https://docs.plone.org/>_.

Credits

This package was initially developed as part of the Google Summer of Code 2009 by Timo Stollenwerk (student) and Martin Aspeli (mentor).

Many thanks to:

• Jon Stahl (for acting as "the customer" during GSoC)
• David Glick (for technical expertise and advice during GSoC)
• Lennart Regebro (for writing the portal_discussion tool and initial unit tests)
• Carsten Senger (for fixing the comment z3c.form form and pizza)
• Hanno Schlichting (for making p.a.d work with Zope 2.12)
• Alan Hoey (for providing fixes)
• Maik Roeder (for providing and setting up a buildbot)
• Jens Klein (for ripping it out of core and making it a separate core-addon for Plone 6.1)