Go with the flow joe! New CommentLuv version started
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It seems CommentLuv is enjoying an upsurge of installs again, this usually happens when a big blogger like The Brown Baron, Revellian, Howtospoter or John Cow installs it and gives it a mention so I thought I had better address some (small) issues with it and give it a rewrite.
I’ve sketched out the first draft of the flow chart which is a good reminder in my own mind of how things link together. It’s a chart that will expand further and take up more and more space, from experience I think it will take another 4 or 5 sketches to get the full flow down on paper and then I can take that and refine and expand it to take into account the individual functions and then I can start on the coding proper!
Some things I am going to put in this new version…
- Options Page
- Change displayed text under comment area
- Change styling options for last blog post display
- Change message for last blog post display
- Option to use external script for blogs with no curl support
- Setting for how hard the plugin should look for the feed
- Setting for enable CommentLuv by default
- Timeout setting for MAGPIE
- AJAX support for background fetching during comment entry*
- Include MAGPIE library in plugin directory**
- Tidy up WP_OPTIONS function for older versions of CommentLuv
* Use jquery to call the function after the comment author URL field loses focus, this will store the authors feed in the cache so when the user submits the comment, the feed in the cache will be used. This will prevent any hanging around after the comment has been submitted while the plugin searches for the feed location.
** Currently, there are some cases of the default include of MAGPIE saving each and every feed cache to the WP database in WP_OPTIONS/OPTION_NAME which tends to make it grow quite large, also some users have reported it being set to “autoload on” which can have an effect on load times. This wont happen if I use a separate MAGPIE include.
So, that’s it, those are my ideas for the new version of CommentLuv. Do you have any suggestions for things you’d like to see?
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March 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I’m a big blogger? Hahaha! I can’t wait for the new version - I think it will be even cooler than it already is. I can’t think of anything to help out, but I do support you 100% and love Comment Luv!
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March 30th, 2008 at 10:52 am
March 30th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I like comment luv as well, without which I guess I wouldn’t know about a terrific piece of work like Mr. Revels’ blog. What an amazing blog that is, by the way, makes be feel a tad inadequate, making me painfully aware of my limitations, both technically and as a so-called a ‘blogger’. In fact, describing myself thus would seem to be an bit on an insult to people like Bobby and Andy.
Thats the trouble, I like reading blogs but often leave without comment, which is just not nice and something I must learn to correct. It feels a bit like turning up at a party, getting as much free food and drink as you can, then leaving without introducing yourself to the hosts. Or something like that.
So, what feature would I like to see?
No ideas I am afraid, I know my place
Rich’s last blog post..e-lottery success- the Sue Pearson way.
March 30th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
That’s strange, in a fit of guilt for all the comments I could have made but did’t, I headed over the Bobbys’ blog to make ammends, and it didn’t work! Twice!
Oh well, at least I made the effort, eh !
Rich’s last blog post..La la la Latvia!
March 30th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
March 30th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Ahhh of course, silly me.
Oh well, I will leave this thread with a nice quote I found today.
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
Herm Albright
1876-1944, Author
Rich’s last blog post..La la la Latvia!
March 30th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
March 31st, 2008 at 3:12 am
Hey Andy,
I really like your CommentLuv plugin, and I’ve been seeing it all over lately, so apparently I’m not alone. It definitely works too … for example, I’m here because I followed a comment you left on Bobby’s blog. Although truth be told, I’m sure I would have seen in it my feed reader eventually too.
I do have one question about the plugin. It doesn’t appear to me that it automatically removes “nofollow” from comments (even here on your blog). To have comments followed, I have to use CommentLuv in conjunction with one of the DoFollow plugins (LinkLove in my case). Perhaps, if it’s not too difficult, you could add that feature to the options panel of a future update? ie, let me set the number of comments somebody has to leave before their links become followed … basically just combine the functionality of your plugin with something similar to LinkLove.
I hope that was clear
Thanks,
Todd
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March 31st, 2008 at 11:36 am
March 31st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Andy,
I’ve been getting similar requests for the Drupal version and I’m going to integrate an options page for settings such as having it automatically selected as default.
I think we need to discuss how we can separate the core functionality (ie the functions that are used for fetching RSS feeds) from the Wordpress/Drupal code.
Perhaps put them in a separate file that can be included with our own code?
Email me if you want to discuss this further. I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback about the plugin for Drupal.
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April 1st, 2008 at 1:00 am
April 1st, 2008 at 9:49 am
Excellent, I have this issue that you might be able to look at whilst you are coding, I think its a problem with escaped characters http://drupal.org/node/239327 .
I’m moving offices on Thursday and house on friday so wont be able to get much work done this week.
We need some sort of developers page on the commentluv site you think?
Pete White’s last blog post..How to Create Your Own HDR Photos/Photomatix tutorial
April 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I’ll look into getting a developer page on commentluv.com today…
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Nice one! Do you know when youll be finished? =) Is there anything i can do to help? *php coder*
cheers
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April 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:59 am
Andy,
Great news - are you writing your own equivalent functions for fetching RSS feeds then?
Thanks
Pete
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April 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I am working on it right now…
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Hi,
Michael from Germany here.
If i could make a wish, i’d suggest a function that allows a commenter to choose which of his post would get linked to.
So that not the last post shows up, but the one that the commenter has chosen, because he regards it most relevant or topically close to the post he is commenting on.
This way an array of related blog post might evolve, which could even lead to a new sort of post-tags …
Hmm, perhaps too visionary or abitious …?
What do you think?
Regards,
Michael
Michael’s last blog post..New Tool Will Put Your Listbuilding On Steroids
April 9th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Hi Andy,
Great plugin, but unfortunately I fall into the camp that are having problems with Magpie saving every feed in the wp_options table.
I think it stored the complete feed for 58 sites (116 records in wp_options, 2 for each). This increased the size of wp_options from 0.5MB to 3.5MB. For the moment, I’ve had to disable the plugin.
I remain a firm believer in the plugin and I’m looking forward to the update. Sounds good! Thanks for a great plugin.
Stephen Cronin’s last blog post..New WordPress Plugin - KeywordLuv
April 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
<?php
include_once(’wp-config.php’);
include_once(’wp-includes/wp-db.php’);
$sql = ‘DELETE FROM `wp_options` WHERE `option_name` LIKE \’rss_%\”;
$results = $wpdb->query($sql);
echo ” $results rows found and removed containing rss_*”;
$sql = ‘OPTIMIZE TABLE `wp_options`’;
$results=$wpdb->query($sql);
echo “\noptimize table (0/1) $results”;
?>
I’ll put it on the main commentluv page too, just put that code into a text file, save it as clean.php and upload it to your root of your blog and then browse to it on your browser, that should get rid of any excess rss
new version is soon!
April 9th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Hi Andy,
Thanks, great service! Actually, I’m sorted (via CPanel), but there may be others.
I think the new version is going to be GREAT and I can’t wait to get my hands on it…
Stephen Cronin’s last blog post..New WordPress Plugin - KeywordLuv
April 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
[...] When I went to Andy Bailey’s site to report this, I found this is a known problem, which will be resolved in the next version. From his post discussing the upcoming CommentLuv upgrade: [...]
April 30th, 2008 at 10:39 am
G’Day Andy,
For some reason CommentLuv doesn’t seem to be working.
I have Wordpress 2.3.2 installed and the latest version of CommentLuv.
I’ve had a couple of my reader leave comments with no links back, subsequently they contacted me asking why.
I tested it by adding a comment of my own, but didn’t receive a link back to my latest post.
Can you help please?
Ian
Ian Richardsons last blog post..I’m giving more Luv, now with CommentLuv and KeywordLuv
May 12th, 2008 at 2:32 am
I never thought about getting two links back when you comment on a blog with CommentLuv. Now there is more reason to comment than ever before!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I agree that encouraging comments is a great thing - even if the people reading are just commenting to get that link. As long as they read, contribute to the article and put something intelligent - then they should have that link there. It is a good service to help other people get those links.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I’m hoping commentluv will start implementing the same features from other software - like keywordluv and some spam prevention aps
July 6th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Dear Andy,
Thanks for sharing the fixing code for older versions of CommentLuv. I’ve replaced the quotations mark so that they’ll be parsed correctly:
<?phpinclude_once('wp-config.php');
include_once('wp-includes/wp-db.php');
$sql = 'DELETE FROM `wp_options` WHERE `option_name` LIKE \'rss_%";
$results = $wpdb->query($sql);
echo " $results rows found and removed containing rss_*";
$sql = 'OPTIMIZE TABLE `wp_options`';
$results=$wpdb->query($sql);
echo "noptimize table (0/1) $results";
?>
However, even after doing so, I’m still getting an error message that goes like this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/teddy/public_html/clean.php on line 9
Thanks a lot for your help!
p/s: I’ve upgraded to the latest verion but rolled back to v0.999 because the latest version doesn’t seem to work properly. I’m currently using Wordpress 2.5, with several comment-related plugins - Spam Karma 2 and WP Thread Comment.