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I have some exciting plans for a commentluv site where you’ll be able to do much more with your commentluv plugin such as define a default post for your site url so it shows that instead of your latest post when you comment on a CL site or choose a cache time for your last post or see a list of the last 10 blogs you commented on etc etc.

This will be possible when I’ve made the site and learned all thats needed to play with a database, I’m on holiday next week so the coding will probably have to wait until I come back so to keep you busy, I encourage you to register your commentluv enabled blog or site at the Top CommentLuv Sites, you’ll get some small exposure and get a pretty little badge for your blog that shows your rank based on your unique hits and you get the chance for your glorious 468×80 banner to be seen by the 10’s (at least!) of people that visit the directory.

Seriously though, it is well known that CommentLuv has increased the quantity of comments made on many (if not all) of the blogs that use it so having a directory of sites that people know link back to them if they comment could have a positive effect for bringing new visitors and commentators to your site.

The template for the site is being developed but all the gubbins are there and it’s working fine already, only the asthetics need to be taken care of so there’s no time to lose! get yourself registered !

Please note that only CommentLuv enabled sites will be allowed to remain in the directory so please make sure you have it installed and working before you register or I’ll send some poodles round to gnaw at your toes

Simply visit Top CommentLuv Sites and register your site for immediate commentluv gratification

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Since CommentLuv got moved to the FiddyP server it has been performing quite well, I think Sharon had some trouble with the site loading slowly over the weekend and I think that’s probably to do with spam comments disprupting the script as there are times when the commentluv script that does the retrieving of the last post gets absolutely hammered.

50,000+ hits to the script each day is a fair amount, I think I need to update commentluv to ignore any comments made with a url that links direct to a file on a site rather than the root. That would probably catch a few of the spam comments from calling the remote script. I have updated the plugin recently to 1.93 but it seems as though the wordpress codex pages haven’t updated in a while. I’ll add some stuff and get it up to 1.94 and press for an update to the pages.

Here’s some hits!..

I am in the process of doing something with all the last blog posts found, right now the script just passes back the html to add to the comment being submitted but for the future I will put in some code that will store statistics in a database which will, eventually, lead to a widget for people to use to display something similar to blogrush but for their own commenters.

I might even get around to doing a back end registration site for it, it might be nice for people to be able to log into a commentluv settings page where they can choose a default feed url for their site which will be used whenever commentluv encounters their registered url.

People could promote a particular post on their page too, log in and set it to display a particular html link for any comment they make on a commentluv enabled blog.

ooh ooh, there could even be stats page to show how many sites display their last blog posts and and and…(anyone know a way to extend the hours in a day?) lol

hmm, what do you think? any ideas for back end features of a commentluv site?

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http://www.jamieharrop.com is a very informative blog with some excellent resources, tips and articles on how to improve your blog/business/life. Check out his article on how to get more blog comments

http://wendyknits.net/ is one for the knitters among you (and my missus!). This is a site that attracts an awful lot of comments so it’s really nice to see it using commentluv

http://www.empiredotcom.com is an excellent resource site for those wanting to make a bit of money from blogging. Great advice too, check out his post about the advantages of using CommentLuv

http://keithjameslock.com/ is a great affiliate marketing tips blog with good original articles. He wrote a great piece on how to take advantage of CommentLuv for targeted traffic. Another article to take note of is this video tutorial for your first time using Google analytics.

CommentLuv has been updated to 1.92 now, be sure to get the latest version and install it today!

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Sorry if you’re having problems with commentluv plugin, I’ve been having real issues with my nameservers and dedicated server. I’ve moved the feed retrieving file to FiddyP.com now and I think that’s the best place for it.

Along the way of all these changes, I’ve learned not to get a dedicated server from streamline.net

I noticed that my disk usage was over 50GB and I only host 4 sites on my server, I sent them an email asking where this extra space usage was coming from and do you know what the expected me to accept as an answer??? - “that’s space taken up by the OS and plesk”

don’t make me bloody larrrrf. OS using up over 50GB? eejits

turns out it was the log files, fancy that, log files taking up 50gb. doh

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Image via WikipediaWe’re now up to 1.7!! I got fed up of ” characters and other punctuation characters getting turned into ? by magpie, also, no display of Chinese or Turkish characters (thanks http://blog.mukispace.com and http://blog.mavikalemler.net/ I used your sites url to test the output of foreign language characters in UTF-8

I moved the determining of the feed location to my server now so the plugin code is a little shorter and neater. Now it should always pick up the feed location from the head of the target site, if it can’t find one there, it searches through the page content for the most likely link to a feed so as long as a feed is linked in the page, it will be picked up and parsed by commentluv.

The plugin itself should be more stable, as long as your blog hosting has the ability to CURL or access external files then it should work. If your hosting wont allow external access to files from within your scripts, be sure to ask them to whitelist the domain www.commentluv.com .

I’m running it on this post from now on so please give it a test especially if you have had problems before or you have a foreign language character set on your site.

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