[comment-guestbook]
into a page to enable this plugin.
On the admin page (goto Comments -> About Guestbook) you can find a detailed description. In the admin area you can find a settings page with a lot of options to modify the behavior and output.
Development:
If you want to follow the development status have a look at the git-repository on github.
Feel free to add your merge requests there, if you want to help to improve the plugin.
Translations:
Please help translating this plugin into multiple languages.
You can submit your translations at transifex.com.
There the source strings will always be in sync with the actual development version.
You can find a lot of options on the admin page in the submenu "Comments" -> "Guestbook". There you have the possibility to change the output of e.g the comment list only for the guestbook page, independent from the general Wordpress settings.
Please check if comments are enabled for your guestbook page. There are several places to change these setting:
Yes, you can create an instance of the "CGB_Shortcode" class which located in "includes/shortcode.php" in the plugin folder and call the function show_html($atts).With $atts you can specify all the shortcode attributes you require. Another possibility would be to call the wordpress function "do_shortcode()".