Top Commentators Plugin
Posted by Mitch on Oct 11, 2008
Somebody stop me! After reading this post on Peter Lee’s blog last night (this morning actually, since it was around 3AM), I started thinking about adding a new Wordpress plugin called Top Commentator, which lists the names of the people who comment on your blog the most.
However, I didn’t see it on Peter’s blog, so I followed the link he was supplying and, once again, I didn’t see it on her site either. Well, I figured that’s not the best way to highlight something, so I went to bed. This morning I went back for another look, and realized that Peter has his only showing on his homepage, and not on every page of his blog. Once I saw it, I decided it could add a nice touch, so I now have it on my blog also. I have decided to show it on every page, and I also decided to show the top commentators for the year, rather than for the month as Peter is doing, but that’s not necessarily cast in stone. Peter’s offering prizes for the top commenter’s each month, and in the future, as this blog starts monetizing itself better, I might do the same thing. Of course, if you check it out here, which right now is at the bottom of the right sidebar, you’ll notice that Sire is so far in front of everyone else for the year that I doubt anyone could catch him. However, if I set it up for the month, well, he’d still be leading, but it would be much closer.
Just another way to give the top visitors more link love, and since this is also a dofollow blog, it’s all good. So, now no one has any reason not to leave a comment, or two, or three, or more.
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You know before I published that post I came here to look for it so that I could add you in my list but found none. Well I’m happy to tell you I’ve just added you in my list.
Peter Lee
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Mitch Reply:
October 11th, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Course, I hope you’ve subscribed to my blog, as I have yours.
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Welcome to the Top Comentator (& CommentLuv) group! However, I am not in the dofollow gang
Initially I used top commentator plugin to show a month’s top and then switched to week. Right now I have last 10 days top commentators (8 of them) which somehow keeps people busy.
As peter does, probably it is a good idea to put it on homepage alone as that would help for their PR considerations.
There is an issue with the top commentator plugin though. As the number of comments grow (and your settings increases – as in last 10 days comment and avoiding certain users’/admin comments from displaying) this tends to slow down the SQL query. I am getting server CPU exceeded errors once in a while due to this plugin! So be careful…
Cheers,
Ajith
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Mitch Reply:
October 12th, 2008 at 12:46 AM
Just asking, but have you thought about going to the dofollow format, or do you have your own reasons for not going that route?
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Mitch Reply:
October 12th, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Not saying it might not be accurate, but in comparison it doesn’t seem right.
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October 12th, 2008 at 6:40 PM
You’ll have to let us all know how that search tool goes.
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