Daily Blog Tips released a new wordpress plugin today entitled ‘My Top Commentators‘. Unlike other top commentators plugins, this plugin does not add a top commentators list to your sidebar. Instead it generates statistics about your commenters in your WordPress dashboard.
I removed the top commentators list from BloggingTips last year because it was being spammed and the ones making the top ten list were mostly the ones who were leaving short pointless and irrelevant comments which contributed nothing to the thread. This is why I quite like this plugin. It allows…
Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz emailed me today to let me know about a new wordpress plugin he has released called Better Tag Manager. Keith decided to completely remove categories from his blog and and instead uses tags. Visitors can then search for posts using his Tag Cloud.
Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin
Basically, this plugin lets you edit the tags of your posts more easily. More specifically, it allows you to edit the tags of posts from the main post area ie. you don’t have to go into each post indvidually to…
Search This have released a wordpress plugin called ‘Comment Info‘. The plugin provides statistics for your commentators. All you need to do is hover over the commentators name and the info box will appear.
Here’s how Search This’s explaination of how it works :
When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter. The tip will display 1 of 4 results:
1. If the commenter has only posted once then it will say so in the tip (see number 1 in the legend…
New BloggingTips author Sarah recently noticed a major flaw in the popular Show Commentators Plugin for WordPress.
As Sarah explained last month :
To briefly explain, the plugin creates the top commentators list by counting the number of comments made per name which is easily forged, by accident or on purpose. It then links the name using the last URL given on that name’s comment. So all you need is someone to forge someone else’s name and use a different URL and they get a nice little, usually no followed, link from your site.
Thankfully,…
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and last but not least….
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