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Beta testing CommentLuv 1.0

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I have finally completed the code for CommentLuv 1.0

phew! I had a mammoth amount of work to do this week but I got a few hours out of nowhere and I’ve managed to get it stable with these features:

• Options page where you can change
• Text displayed under the comment box
• Text used within the comment
  can choose to show name , site and last blog post
• Choose to enable CommentLuv by default
• Add styling to last blog post text
• Uses an external script to do the fetching
  This means that the magpie library included with wordpress doesn’t get used. Instead I try to curl a page I host on my dedicated server which outputs the last post link. If curl isn’t enabled, it tries to fetch it another way. This way I can keep the most up to date fetching routine on my server and when I update that, all people using commentluv will use the most up to date routine

I will be adding AJAX to it later but for now it is working quite stable, I need to run it on here for a few days to make sure it can behave well and then I’ll package it for a 1.0 release and put ajax in for the 1.5 release…

please feel free to make a comment and test it out for me…. thanks!

[edit]… You can download the beta testing version by clicking here Just extract and overwrite the existing file, there is an options page in the dashboard under “settings” in WP2.5

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28 Responses to “Beta testing CommentLuv 1.0”

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   witchypoo (35 comments.) Says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 1:42 am

   *tap* *tap* testing, testing.

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   Andy Bailey Says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 11:44 am
   argh, typical!
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   Wissam Idrissi (2 comments.) Says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

   where to download???

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   Nicole Price (26 comments.) Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 6:42 am

   More testing testing…. one two three…

   Nicole Prices last blog post..My List of Top 10 Print Ads

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   Nicole Price (26 comments.) Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 6:43 am

   I love that my last blog post is showing up here! Immediately gives people an idea what the blog is about and if they would like to visit or not.

   Nicole Prices last blog post..My List of Top 10 Print Ads

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   Andy Bailey Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
   wissam: it’s still being tested here for the moment. I want to add some more options to the options page and a cleanup option for older cl versions before I release it for general public consumption

   nicole: glad you like it!

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   witchypoo (35 comments.) Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

   As soon as this puppy is ready to roll, I will post about it and pass the word to all my blogspot buddies.

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   witchypoo (35 comments.) Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

   Andy, why won’t it work for me? I been good, honest.

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   Andy Bailey Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
   I don’t know witchypoo! I tried it on a couple of different scripts and it couldn’t get it either, I can see it when I visit your site though so I don’t know why. so sorry!
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    Pete White (12 comments.) Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    Andy, cant wait to get hold of the commentluv code and get cracking on it for Drupal!

    Pete Whites last blog post..Deciding on an ISP

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    Pete White (12 comments.) Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Andy - just out of interest its putting a ref=nofollow in and is linking to my feedburner url - I think previously it used to go straight to my site?

    Pete Whites last blog post..Deciding on an ISP

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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
    You have to set your feedburner so it links direct to your blog rather than use it’s own version, there is a way to set 301 redirects on the feedburner links so it passes all link juice to your blog, see the article here http://www.scratch99.com/2008/02/commentluv-benefits-lost-feedburner-redirect/

    also, the nofollow is added by wordpress when you try to edit a comment or if you receive an email notification generated by wordpress. if you check the source though, you can see that no follow has been removed (as long as you have enough comments which you do)

    Andy Baileys last blog post..Quicky contest. Euromillions Rollover

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    Jenny (7 comments.) Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    But what about allowing us to style it so it doesn’t squish up near the comment and we can make it look special or something.

    Jennys last blog post..The Green Life

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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
    jenny: great idea, I just put that into the options page. The problem is wordpress only allows certain html tags in the comment area so I ended up having to use <abbr> , that’s allowed and hardly ever seen. You should start to see styling on the comments that arrive after this…
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    Absurdist (1 comments.) Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    Hi there. Thanks for updating for 2.5.

    I am getting two thingies on my website (www.bipolarbitch.com in 2.5 version) at the bottom of the page. Any ideas why?

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    ozwebhub (3 comments.) Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    I was glad to see the new version, becauae the old one hasn’t been working for a while.
    My host seems to be the only one in the world who has a firewall to external RSS’s
    From what I can gather, there might only be your RSS I can have whitelisted.

    I can’t get them to access every site’s RSS .

    Is that right? If so can you email me with the URL of it please.

    ozwebhubs last blog post..Quite frankly, I like it

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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
    ozweb: the plugin will try and use curl to parse a file on commentluv.com which gets the last blog post, the full url is http://www.commentluv.com/commentluvinc/remoteCL4.php5
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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
    absurdist: the text gets added when the comment_form hook is triggered which happens whenever the commentform is shown, my guess is that another plugin is doing something with the plugin form after it has been loaded and that’s why it is showing the text twice.

    I haven’t seen this before, I will see if I can put something in the new version to counter it..

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    ozwebhub (3 comments.) Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 5:26 am

    Hi Andy,

    Comment luv is now working after my host put that URL on the whitelist of the firewall.
    And all this time I thought it was me doing something wrong.

    ozwebhubs last blog post..Quite frankly, I like it

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    Solomon (3 comments.) Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Thank you for this plugin. I find it really useful.

    One thing I’ve noticed in the new version is that the character ” appears as ?.

    Solomons last blog post..The ?Things I’m Grateful For? April Contest

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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
    ozweb: glad it works for you!
    solomon: this is a known issue with the magpie library which I use to do the parsing on my server. I have tried to eliminate apostrophes and that has some limited success, I’ll see if I can work on something to fix the quotes characters
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    muki (2 comments.) Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    why my blog has ??? ><

    mukis last blog post..???????

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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
    muki, I think this is due to the character set being used on your blog being different to that being used by the function that retrieves the last blog post. strange because the plugin used to handle chinese characters ok before. i will look into it this week for you.
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    muki (2 comments.) Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 10:54 am

    It’s works done!!!
    thank for your help^^~

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    Pete White (12 comments.) Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 am

    Andy, is comment luv in a good state where I can start to develop with it?

    Pete Whites last blog post..ouch. I hope the lead can

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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
    muki: glad to see it does! at the moment, the feed getting routine is on shared hosting and I’m just getting it transferred to my dedicated server so it can be quicker with retrieving far away servers.

    Pete: I’ll send you an email about the new bits in the code, most of the processing is done off site now so the plugin only needs to catch the author url, and add a GET on the url and curl the file on commentluv.com which passes back html for the titled link. I think it needs a few cosmetic changes to the options page though and maybe add language support so maybe by 2.0 everything will be hunky dory.

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    ozwebhub (3 comments.) Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Andy,
    “the feed getting routine is on shared hosting and I’m just getting it transferred to my dedicated server so it can be quicker with retrieving far away servers”.
    If that means the url you gave me before for my server to whitelist on the firewall, you will let me know won’t you?

    ozwebhubs last blog post..Piclens will now download videos to watch in full screen

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    Andy Bailey Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
    ozwebhub: don’t worry, the domain name stays the same, just where it’s hosted is changed so you wont need to change anything

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