Tag Archive: comments
2008-10-08 Update: I removed this feature because it doesn’t work right as the comment count increases… I’ll have to change the math behind it some time.
I’ve added a value metric in the sidebar of every blog! Also, there are stats on the average number of words per post, number of tags and categories, and the number of threaded comments and pingbacks.
My blog is worth $829,191. This development blog is worth $7189. Daytona State College News is valued at $2440. VicAndHelen.com is a measly $15. My mom’s blog is worth $1270, while my cousin’s is just …
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Check out Comments > My Comments on your blog’s menu, thanks to this WordPress MU plugin. I removed the one under Dashboard, since this one seems better. You see the comments you’ve made at other blogs recently, and comments after them.
We already have a good comment threading/email system, but this is good if you’ve just forgotten where you’ve commented recently. You can click “dismiss” on any comment to remove it from the page (the comment won’t be delete though; only the owner of the blog you commented on can do that).
Also: I removed Design > Themes, because there is …
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I’ve been working hard on redesigning the Thripp.com comments system as of late. I don’t have a screen cap of the old one, but it was ugly. All the basic functionality was there, but the colors and dividers and layout and sorting wasn’t up to snuff with the new design. All that changes today. This is my new vision for blog commenting:
This is my gift to everyone on Thripp.com. Do you not see the beauty? 
Let me tell you the features:
• The same wonderful threading interface through a modified version of WP Thread …
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I added a spam counter to every blog’s sidebar, below the comments count. This is cool, because it shows your readers how much spam you get. The sidebar for this development blog says “21 Comments” and “120 Spams.” I get a whopping amount of spam at Brilliant Photography by Richard X. Thripp, so my counter looks more like this: “4,411 Spams.”
All thripp.com blogs have spam protection through Akismet, so we should be able to stand up to any amount of spam (unless the spammers overload my web server). Make sure to check and clear out your spam queue …
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I’ve implemented the features mentioned in my entertaining title. Finally! 
That’s what your sidebar looks like when you’re logged in. And that’s when you’re reading ANY blog. Very convenient, and it makes it hard to get lost. Before, there was just Site Admin and Log Out, but this is so much cooler. Clicking “Subscribe” adds the blog you’re reading to your subscribed list, which you can read in your admin panel. If you’re subscribed, the link changes to “Unsubscribe” (should you want to do that).
When you’re in your administrative section, you see this under “Dashboard”:…
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The Top Level Categories plugin I’d talked about before is now mandatory for everyone (I added it to the mu-plugins folder). This is awesome, because your category URLs are nice and short: instead of thripp.com/blog/category/news you have thripp.com/blog/news, for example.
The only thing you have to watch out for is name clashes with pages. If you have a category named “general” and a page named “general”, they can’t both be there because they’re fighting over the same URL. Since it’s nonstandard in Wordpress/WPMU to have no category base, there’s nothing to stop you from trying. All that happens …
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I added comments RSS feeds for all your thripp.com posts and pages. A link appears at the top of the comments section when you view any single post or page that has at least one comment already. You can see an example on this page, which has 48 comments:
This is the code that’s powering that section; you can use it on your own Wordpress / WPMU site (not thripp.com) if you want:
<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number(__('No Comments — start the discussion. '), __('One Comment — continue the discussion. …
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I noticed on really long posts, like my latest, How to give file names to your photos, that the comments link is way down at the bottom of the entry, and that is annoying if you want to see the comment count right from the start, or jump to that section immediately. So I added a link in the header of each post, after the tags. You won’t see it when viewing just the post; it only appears on pages with multiple posts, like your home page, category and tag pages, etc. That’s where it’s most useful. Enjoy.
I added the WPMU User Comment Tracking and Display plugin, which from now on will keep a log of the comments you make. You can see them in the admin page under Dashboard > My Comments. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), it shows just the latest three comments from the post you commented on, so it isn’t a true comments history. At least you’ll know you commented there, so you can click the title of the post and then use your web browser’s Find function to find your user name in the comments list. …
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There was an error for blogs created in the last day, where commenting on the first post would give the error: “Not logged in; please login before or fill out name and email.” I fixed this, so you can comment on everything now. Go ahead and welcome out latest bloggers: Freudian Slip, Dear Eddy, Prairie Tide, American Report, and Thought Minion.
