Introducing AJAX CommentLuv

December 25 th

Introducing AJAX CommentLuv

Posted by Andy Bailey

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I have finally implemented AJAX into my CommentLuv plugin, it should dramatically increase the speed at which the comment gets posted after a user clicks “submit” by monitoring the comment form entry box, as soon as it gets some action then a javascript routine gets called to find the feed, scrape the last post from it and display it below the comment form.

Because the fetch_rss has a cache which it checks before it tries to open the remote feed, the last blog post will still be stored in the cache from the AJAX request so it wont need to do much at all to add the last blog post to the comment. sweet!

It’s installed and running ok here in it’s rough state so I can see how it performs while I neaten up the code so it can do all the includes and stuff automatically as well as detect another url change if the user changes their blog url after starting to comment.

At the moment it uses a bit of jquery and a bit of the AJAX goodness that you can see on the Beginners AJAX Tutorials posts, when I’ve figured out how to do it all with jquery and have it working nicely then I’ll release the new updated plugin.

It seems that a quiet Christmas morning is all that’s required to get an AJAX problem solved!

I’ll get used to jQuery and get some tutorials out there after the part 5 and 6 are done with the current series. Happy Holidays everyone!

You can always find the current version of CommentLuv here
(no AJAX in the current version yet…)

Popularity: 8% [?]

Trying out the AJAX version of CommentLuv here

3 day lazy period is due to finish. grr

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Comments

Lalla Mira (58 comments.) December 25, 2007

I think it’s a good idea to always post a link to where we can get CL plugin, in every new post that deals with it, de près ou de loin.
I’ve had some issues with my blog, *again*, and the tech support of my hosting company says it must be one of the plugins I use. Surprisingly, I am not using anything extra-uncommon, only the usuals.
I should get the new version of CL now and test it.

Andy Bailey December 25, 2007

good idea! I put the link in at the bottom.
it’s a pain in the arse when hosting doesn’t go right, I can see your default feed location doesn’t show your feed for me

I hope you get it sorted out so you can spread the lurv!

chase (12 comments.) December 25, 2007

Ooohh that is nice so I guess we need to update our commentluv plugins? Anyway, Merry Christmas to you and to your family!!!

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Diana13 (9 comments.) December 25, 2007

I’ve just update my commentluv plugin. First, I don’t see the point of that checkbox. And when I write something in the text area, it doesn’t appear like in your blog, the last post, above the Notify me …

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andy bailey December 25, 2007

The Ajax bit won’t be in the latest version yet. I need to test it out on here for a while first. Looks like it won’t be until the new year now

Lalla Mira (58 comments.) December 25, 2007

I can’t get may hands on what’s wrong with my feed. The pink box of your CL post detected my last post very quickly.
Maybe I’ll try burning a new feed adding a letter at its end or something! What do I know!

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Lalla Mira (58 comments.) December 25, 2007

My feed worked for my last comment, I didn’t notice that.
I changed the last bit of it, I hope that doesn’t affect anything [the number of subscribers for instance].

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Andy Bailey December 26, 2007

hopefully it’s all sorted now, as long as you have the feedsmith plugin going on your site then you shouldn’t notice any difference in subscribers (I think!)

Snowlark (8 comments.) December 26, 2007

DUDE!!!

Sweet, you got the AJAX change working so far? Great, I can’t wait! In fact, my traffic is quite low with my current blog, so let me know if you need a “beta tester” for this new change.

(fyi - software quality is my profession for the last 17 years)

Drop me a note if I can help …

–Steve

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Andy Bailey December 26, 2007

thanks Steve, I still have to make some improvements but I’m happy that it catches the feed, I definitely need to add some error catching in there for parsing the url before I process it. ATM I have it all in separate scripts so I will integrate it into the plugin. I may have to use a directory for commentluv from the next version to allow for includes…

thanks for offer!

Talina (4 comments.) December 28, 2007

I am ready for the new release! I have been having issues posting comments on blog that use comment luv and if the AJAX speeds the process up that will help! I am ready to get the update!

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Andy Bailey December 28, 2007

Talina: it’ll take me a little time to get the ajax thing integrated with the plugin so it works nicely first time. I should be able to make it backwards compatible for WP 2.1 and less.

I need to experience the christmas lazy period first though and I’ll get right on with the plugin update!

Snowlark (8 comments.) December 29, 2007

Andy, ensure you get some max-lazy-time as it helps one keep sharp. I’m glad we’ve got this working on my WP blog, so, happy day for me!

Any improvements you make are welcome. Take time - it’s never coming back once it’s gone.

(Harry Chapin, “Cats in the Cradle”, comes to mind)

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Jeff (1 comments.) December 30, 2007

Great Improvement!

kojika (1 comments.) December 31, 2007

Nice!

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Andy Bailey January 2, 2008

snowlark: I had a wicked 3 days of doing f-all, it was brill!

Jeff: I think so too!

Kojika: thanks

Opal Tribble/Vegan Momma (35 comments.) January 4, 2008

Great!
My posts have been acting weird when I comment on someone elses website it brings up posts that I’ve written weeks ago.

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Andy Bailey January 4, 2008

I tried going to http://veganmomma.com/blog/feed and it showed a blank page so CL must be using the cache to resolve your last post (the last time you posted a comment here showed the same last blog post)

If I view the source of your feed page I can see all the guts are there but not when it’s viewed in a browser.. how strange!

BadEvan (2 comments.) January 6, 2008

Andy,

Great Plugin. I see it around other blogs and I love it. Problem is….It’s not working on my blog. I got nothing…There isn’t even a check box for people to enable CommentLuv.

I know my host allows curl…I’m at a loss.

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Andy Bailey January 7, 2008

The only time that has happened for me is when it was on a custom template. the plugin uses the filter ‘comment_form’ to tell it to add the text, if your template doesn’t do that call then it wont show the text (I think!)
other than that, I am at a loss too

BadEvan (2 comments.) January 8, 2008

Can I send you a copy of my comments.php file?

I kinda know my way around php….But I’m not sure what you are referring to.
Maybe if we put our heads together we can fix this for me and the few others….

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Andy Bailey January 8, 2008

BadEvan » by all means send it to me and I’ll have a look
send by attachment to andy at teamplaylotto.com

frank morgan (1 comments.) February 12, 2008

I love the idea of commentluv and found this site through another blog

keep up the good work

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Andy Bailey February 12, 2008

thanks Frank!

Shannon (1 comments.) February 14, 2008

Is there any comment love plugins for bloger? thanks

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Andy Bailey February 14, 2008

blogger doesn’t have the ability to do php sorry, no plugin for blogspot

Stu (1 comments.) February 23, 2008

The only thing I’ve found with Commentluv is that the Feedburner redirects tend to mess up the “link love.”

Aside from that I think the plugin is a fantastic way to encourage more comments & more interaction on your blog
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Andy Bailey February 23, 2008

Please check this post for how to change feedburner redirects so it points directly to your post giving you the maximum link luv

thanks for your kind comments!

Hani Obaid (1 comments.) March 2, 2008

Activating the plugin didn’t add anything to my comments. I think it’s my theme, I always have to add things to the comment php manually. Is there a line I can add manually to get commentluv working ?

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Urban Kevin (1 comments.) April 30, 2008

My theme doesn’t work with this plugin. Argh.

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Andy Bailey May 1, 2008

Hani, Urban Kevin: you may have to edit your theme comment.php file and add this line to just before the </form> tag

<?php do_action(’comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>

Eligio (1 comments.) June 9, 2008

where can i download your commentluv ajax version, also is this compatible with the new version 2.5.1? thanks

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Busby (1 comments.) July 1, 2008

Where can we download your commentluv ajax? Awesome Plugin!