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Today, I just passed by an article talking about MyBlogLog and basically, they are giving some reasons I totally agree with for not using the system.
In fact I used to use that service, but it’s a complete waste of space on your website, and most of the people displayed in there are not leaving comments anyway.
In this article, the author suggest the use of a plugin displaying top commenters or last commenters not only using their names, but also via gravatar service.
So, here is the plugin, he got the idea and I made it :)
Here is the list of features :
- Display whether Last commenters or top commenters
- Display user name (or not, via options)
- Display link to user’s website (or not, via options)
- Default gravatar
- Gravatar size
Once you installed the plugin, just add it to your sidebar and choose your options. A tutorial and Documentation will be written in the next days.
It’s not yet available through Wordpress extend, but it will be published today or tommorow. So you’ll be able to get automatic updates :)
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Plugin looks good. Nice to see someone act upon my idea so quickly.
Well,
To me, coding is not the most difficult part, but getting the idea is !
If you have other ideas, don’t hesitate to share them ;)
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Great idea!
I installed and activated the plugin, but how to make it work? I am with Wordpress 2.6 and do not see any plugin options page where I could adjust it.
Can you please provide more info on the activation process?
Regards from Bulgaria!
Hold on, I got it. There is a special new widget addon, which appeared in the widget section. But because the name was a bit similar to another widget (Get Recent Comments), I got confused.
Now it works great! :-)
After Brian´s Latest Comments seized working from WP 2.5 upwards, I been looking for a plugin that does the same and some but couldn´t find one. Perhaps you find the idea as useful as I do. The plugin should output the latest comments in the form:
Postname1
commentername, commentername, commentername,…
X comments
Postname2
and so on
I find this threaded view much more transparent and not the less more interesting for readers. You can identify the most talked about posts with one look.
anyway to install without widgets.
in my template,i haven’t widget,then how to use it?how to quote to my pages?
To activate the widget without widgetised sidebar, just include something like this :
< ?php $ZdComWidget->widget(); ?>
But be ware that you won’t be able to change options as they are only setup in the widget control panel.
Great plugin!
Anthony, if i want display not Default gravatar, but avatar, that was generated by WP_Texticon plugin - what i must edit in your plugin?
TRanslated to portuguese: Download
broadly speaking, i search for plugin, that can show area with ONLY gravatars, like your Flickr widget, but with avatars. Each avatar link to author’s site or page with comment. This feature will be very cool…
Brainsolid, if you deactivate the option that display usernames, this plugin will do what you want ;)
Just style your css classes.
But how i can show not default avatar, but avatars, generated by WP_Texticon?
Brainsolid,
I’ll have to look at a solution for that because I don’t know how it is supposed to work between WP_Texticon and gravatar
@Anthony thanks for your help :-)
Anthony, thank you very much!
C’est moi qui l’ai mal configuré, ou le plugin n’affiche pas le lien vers l’article commenté pour chacun des commentateurs pris en compte ?
Grumpf, désolée, j’ai posté trop vite; si j’ai bien compris, quand on choisit d’afficher les derniers commentateurs, le plugin n’affiche que ça : le nom des commentateurs, pas le post qui a été commenté.
Aegiale,
Effectivement, le but du plugin est de mettre en avant les lecteurs et pas les posts sur lesquels ils ont répondus. Je ferais surement une option pour mettre le post plutot que la personne.
some advice:
1,exclude option should be added, if you dont want someone showed on the list, like the blog owner himself.
2,set a time limit to the top commenter, like: the top commenter of this week/ this month.
3,very thankful to your great plugin.
I like it..
^_^
Xiaomo,
Blog owner is automatically excluded. In fact any authentified user is excluded. I agree that it should be an option.
I’d love to use this plugin on wpmu not simple wordpress but the wordpress multi user edition. Here it doesn’t make sense to exclude registered/logged in users at all.
Also I guess the gravatar size is in px, right? What is expected inside the default gravatar field? an absolute path or an url?
Could this plugin not follow the settings of the wordpress isntallation meaning if that blog is setup to display either gravatar otherwise monsterid can’t this plugin also do that?
Another nice option would be to add a link to the post the user commented on, something like *avatar* - *commentername* - on *postname*
Ovidiu, Yes gravatar size is in pixels (I would advise to use 25 or 32).
In next release there will be an option not to exclude registered users.
Regarding monsterid, I have to look how to use this function.
Thank you very much for this plugin, this is exactly what I was looking for!
Actually, just a small thing (people always ask for more, don’t they!): is there a CSS to modify the look of the widget? For example, margins between the link and the gravatar.
Thanks!
Zhu,
You can customize the layout via the class used by the widget which is called : zd_CommentsWidget_widget
This would mean something like this : .zd_CommentsWidget_widget ul { your style for the global list }
.zd_CommentsWidget_widget ul li { your style for each item in the list }
Anthony great plugin, thanks!
I have 1 question: How to make it to show only gravatars without text (commentator name). I want Gravatars to show 5 per line and 5 in the column. Is something - http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7213/gravatarsfy9.gif
Mishef,
To do that, you have to uncheck the option Display Names.
To have multiple columns,rows, you have to tweak your CSS so that they are corretly aligned (have a look at ul li { float:left })
Great plugin :D thx
Sweet mod I was considering adding it to my blogs and it seems I should have! Do you think most the comments here today are because you have this mod?
This was a serious question because if it’s so I will 100% install this mod.
Brian,
I do not have the plugin installed on my wordpress, so most comments on this post are because of the plugin, but not on my blog.
ok so the mod you have is the regular Gravatar mod?
bbrian, the plugin i made is a widget with gravatars, which is not included by default. I do not use it, and yes, the comments are using the regular gravatar system from WP 2.6
Alright I’m starting to catch on! I think I want the top commenters that allows the gravatar also!
Why don’t you use your own plugin here?
bbrian07, only a design matter :) I don’t want to put too much information on my sidebar.
I can’t thank you enough for the plugins, its work like magic :)
CMIIW but the styling that works for me is
#comments-widget ul {}
#comments-widget ul li {}
:D
Ditto on what the commenter above me said. To get it to appear in columns X rows (don’t display names), the CSS that worked for me is:
#comments-widget ul {
list-style-image:none;
list-style-position:outside;
list-style-type:none;
}
#comments-widget ul li {
float:left;
list-style-image:none !important;
list-style-position:outside !important;
list-style-type:none !important;
margin:2px !important;
}
Hope that helps newbies (coz I’m one). :)
Hello,
I was wondering if this could be altered to pull authors/blog contributors and display them in the same way.
I would like to sort them by the person who most recently posted.
I can pay for a plugin such as this.
Thank you.
Dustin
How do you make it reset after a certain # of days?
Jayson, this is an alltime top, so you can’t define an expiration on a # of days.
hey! that’s a real cool plugin mate, loving it!
@fruityoaty Thanks a ton for that! This has been on my ToDo list for months and last time I checked was before you commented.
And thanks for this plugin!
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