About
Introduction
Everyone likes to receive comments on their blog, it helps to grow a community and makes you feel special as a blog owner to hear from the people who read your posts. I created the CommentLuv wordpress plugin to help give something back to every single commentator as well as entice them to come back and visit more often by automatically adding a titled link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. It’s done fantastically well with tens of thousands of comments every day receiving a little luv.
The Problem
The plugin would only work for self hosted, CURL enabled single user wordpress blogs, it added a couple of seconds to the processing time of the comment being posted and people wouldn’t know if it worked or not until after they commented.
The Solution
I proudly present the 2.0 version of CommentLuv! It is compatible with MU and with logged on users (except administrator replies) it finds the last blog post in the background while the user is typing their comment and displays it below the comment form. When they submit the comment, it automatically adds the last post using the text specified by the blog owner to the comment before submission. If no feed was found or their site was not contactable, it will show them what error has occurred before they submit.
Features
- AJAX using default jQuery include
- Compatible with MU
- Compatible with logged on users
- All browser side javascript so no extra load on the MU server.
- It rewards your blog community automatically.
Installation
Wordpress MU and Wordpress
- Upload the commentluv folder to the regular plugins directory and activate it.
- Check the settings page in the dashboard and enter the ID values for your themes comment form
- Save the settings and check a single post as a user or logged out to see it working.
Requirements
The plugin should auto configure itself to work with your comment form, in the case that you use a custom file or plugin comment form you can set the ID or Name value in the settings page. Just enter the Name or ID value in the relevant text field and select if it is the ID or Name identifier. (for the comment form ID, precede the value with #)
Screenshots
Download
Download CommentLuv version 2.5
This is my entry to the Wordpress MU plugin contest. If you like this plugin and you think your blog community might use it please vote for it!
You can see it in action here and here
Support is here and I welcome any suggestions or improvements you might have!
My skype: (voice only) teamplaylotto.com
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