Display WooThemes Sensei comments and messages in a Genesis framework child theme. Insert in your child theme's functions.php file.

gistfile1.php

/**
 * Remove Sensei comments output and replace with comments done the Genesis way.
 *
 * @notes Extends the WooThemes_Sensei_Frontend class.
 *
 */

if (class_exists('WooThemes_Sensei_Frontend')) {
    remove_action( 'sensei_comments', array( $woothemes_sensei->frontend, 'sensei_output_comments' ), 10 );
    add_action( 'sensei_comments', array( 'WooThemes_Sensei_Frontend_Comments', 'pasada_sensei_output_comments' ), 10 );

    class WooThemes_Sensei_Frontend_Comments extends WooThemes_Sensei_Frontend
    {
        function pasada_sensei_output_comments()
        {
            global $woothemes_sensei, $view_lesson, $user_taking_course;
            $allow_comments = $woothemes_sensei->settings->settings['lesson_comments'];

            if ( is_user_logged_in() && $allow_comments && ( isset( $view_lesson ) && $view_lesson ) && ( isset( $user_taking_course ) && $user_taking_course )) {
                genesis_get_comments_template();
            } elseif ( is_singular( 'sensei_message' ) ) {
                genesis_get_comments_template();
            }
        }
    }
}

thank you!

Hi there,

Thank you for posting this - it solved all our issues - until sensei 1.9 was released :(

I was hoping that by replacing the deprecated "sensei_comments" hook with "sensei_after_main_content" was going to fix it but that didn't quite work. I'm not new to coding but I am new to web development ..

For whatever reason, ( isset( $view_lesson ) && $view_lesson ) && ( isset( $user_taking_course ) && $user_taking_course )) all return nothing so the comments never get displayed.

I tried shortening it to if ( is_user_logged_in() && $allow_comments ) { for testing - that displayed the students comments but not the teacher's replies?!

Do you by any chance have a workaround that works with Sensei > 1.8?

Thanks
K

Hi, I see that there are not response here for long time. I have the same problem with the comments. I'm using Genesis Framework and Woothemes Sensei 1.9.19. For now is not working anymore the comments. Any solution for that?

Add the following to your functions.php file:

remove_action( 'sensei_pagination', array( 'Sensei_Lesson', 'output_comments' ), 90 );

add_action( 'sensei_pagination', function() {

	$course_id = Sensei()->lesson->get_course_id( get_the_ID() );
	$allow_comments = Sensei()->settings->settings[ 'lesson_comments' ];
	$user_taking_course = Sensei_Utils::user_started_course($course_id );

	$lesson_allow_comments = $allow_comments  && $user_taking_course;

	if (  $lesson_allow_comments || is_singular( 'sensei_message' ) ) {

		comments_template( '', true );

	}

}, 90 );

The problem is Genesis requires comments to be separated into comment, ping, and trackback groups. The way Sensei outputs comments is by using the output_comments function, and then calling comments_template(). I removed the default way Sensei outputs comments, and wrote comments_template( '', true ) to make it compatible with Genesis.

Thank you! That's works perfectly. Interesting your comment about how Genesis requires comments.

See you!