Your Show Top Commentators Wordpress Widget Not Working Fine?

September 7th, 2007 | email this | digg it

Leave your comment Posted by Life is Colourful

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I have been using this Show top commentators plugin available from Nate right from my first Wordpress templates. Recently I switched to this FourWPTP template but could not get a chance to write about my new template with lovely red colour; I liked this professional looking four column template than the previous one.

I realized in some time that my favorite plugin of Showing top commentators is not working the way I expected. First it was not showing the list, and secondly it did not appear properly. I could not see a way to comment on Nate’s plugin web page but then I decided to contact him by all means [and telling you it was not really very straight to find his contact]. Meanwhile, I tried Krizka’s Show Top Commentator wordpress widget based on Nate’s plugin and unfortunately that didn’t work too.

I m so glad to see Nate replied back within 12 hours, with suggestion to tweak the code as per the sidebar. Nate fixed the problem with appearance of “Top Commentator” title which was appearing in between two columns. But the list of commentators still remained an issue. He asked me to look into the code to fix it which I was planning to, but meanwhile Krizka fixed the issue in his wordpress plugin and replied me.

If you are aware of it, Nate’s plugin is pure PHP code, which in turn was converted to a flexible wordpress plugin by Krizka

I hope you know why this widget is important for me and have read before what I give back to my commentators as a token of appreciation. Thanks Krizka for fixing the widget quickly for me and helping me to reward my regular commentators.

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54. CASH for COMMENTS said in September 7th, 2007

yes.. top commentator is a must.. i barely added that to my blog b/c of the similar problems.

55. CASH for COMMENTS said in September 7th, 2007

another great plugin is brian’s threaded comments.. where you can reply to a comment.

56. Enkay Blog said in September 9th, 2007

Great Template but for some reason in Firefox, the sidebars are half-way down the page when I go to a particular post page. Also, Nate is known to be very helpful!

58. Life is Colourful said in September 9th, 2007

@ [CashForComments] - I think Brian’s plugin does not work with this Template [Not again… :(]

@ Enkay - Yeah, I am aware of that issue and trying to figure out the problem by tweaking the code, but if I would not, I will contact the template developer.

684. learn networking said in October 28th, 2007

I had it back when I had a guitar blog, it really helped with comments. It also put askimet to work, I had tons of spam comments.

Sold that blog a while back though, so now I’m blog-less. =[

773. modified cars uk said in October 30th, 2007

I haven’t added it to mine but it looks good on yours - Getting up there

You think it inspires posting?

774. Life is Colourful said in October 30th, 2007

@ modified cars uk: It indeed. It’s both way benefit.

I started commenting on a PR5 blog due to this widget, and stayed on top of the commentators’ list for 4-5 months, of course - it must have passed on some juice to me. And benefit for that blog is - I became a regular reader of the blog, as the articles posted used to be good as well.

845. Digitalframe said in November 2nd, 2007

I haven’t experied with top commentator plugin, cause’ My new blog have no comment now:(

849. Jalaj said in November 2nd, 2007

@ modified cars uk: I agree with LIC (Is abbreviation OK?:)) in that… you learn a lot on other’s blogs this way.

856. Sirius Lee said in November 2nd, 2007

Plugins like this make people wanna come back again and again to a blog. It’s a way for a blog owner to show how much he values his readers’ opinions. Seeing how you’re making this work rather well on your blog, I’m thinking of adding this to my blogs as well. Thanks for the great idea!

909. Gauhar said in November 4th, 2007

It was nice that Nate responded very promptly. Top posters plugin is a very good addition to inventory of a blogger. It builds brand, and is a very good way of thanking commentators. And a no-follow tag is a Cherry on the Cake.

Nate. if you’re reading his, thank you for a wonderful contribution to WordPress Blogging World.

988. Gospel Song Lyrics said in November 6th, 2007

I have not added yet but will!! Loks like a nice template

992. The Smith Manoeuvre said in November 6th, 2007

I also agree, the top commentator plugin is a must for a wordpress blog. Regular bloggers who habitually comment on the my site are rewarded with a “do-follow” link to their site. Like you said, the increased comments brings a sense of community to the blog.

1152. Joedel said in November 10th, 2007

I’m looking for new ways to promote my blog. Do you think this plugin could help? How has putting do follow tags on comments affected your blog’s traffic? Does it help a lot?

1212. Pop Psychotronics said in November 10th, 2007

Sometimes, a simple plugin such as this makes all the difference in attracting readers to a blog. Blogs that give an incentive such as dofollow links to regular commenters make people want to check out the blogs in the first place. This makes it a win-win situation for everyone concerned.

1340. Articles Directory said in November 13th, 2007

Seems a good plugin. I will try to apply it to my blog.

1427. Travel Blog said in November 14th, 2007

I’m just concerned… how does do follow plungins for comments affect the PR of blogs? Wouldn’t it decrease?

1829. Joedel said in November 25th, 2007

Good plugin, i use in my blog.

2177. krunal Chauhan said in December 3rd, 2007

thats cool plugin.. i juz wanna ask you, do you need some extra tweaking on this code or its simple to install ?

2180. Great Mobile World said in December 3rd, 2007

Is this plugin wors only for specific template?

3845. Shantanu said in December 27th, 2007

Hmm…another reason to switch out of Blogger. Sorely lacks customizing capability and plug-ins. They have a Recent Comments widget but it’s difficult to customize.

4108. SirCommy said in December 30th, 2007

Top Commentators plugin is indeed a ’sort of must have’. It quite depends on a blogger’s intentions. Some prefer to appreciate the comments and optionally allowing the commentators to leave their link. The top commentators is also a great way to show new visitors that your blog is actually active and visited. I enjoy it, sign of appreciation.

5675. CBK said in January 18th, 2008

I agree, its a great plugin. But I would really like it to include all posted messages. In others words, not just at toplist of commentators but a toplist of commentors AND posters, is this possible? HEEELP :o)

6281. Song Lyrics Guy said in January 31st, 2008

I can’t make it work on my wordpress blog Can someone help me?

6615. Technology rules said in February 16th, 2008

Some times it wont work properly

6955. World Directory said in March 4th, 2008

a great plug-in, a must have for bloggers i would say.

7003. seo said in March 6th, 2008

Great plugin, will help get more dedicated readers

7025. My Safe Car said in March 8th, 2008

When did you add popup ads to your website? I nearly had a panic attack thinking I got a virus.

7029. Ren B said in March 8th, 2008

I’m planning to start using WP and this looks like the first plugin to be installed! Hopefully, I’ll be online this month.

7041. No Money in Website said in March 8th, 2008

Forum sites have an automatic stats for top posters. This innovative Wordpress blog should help bring a flood of site visitors.

7869. Chetan said in April 6th, 2008

I always love commenting on other blogs, as it keeps me active in discussions and i love blogs where top commentators plugin is seen installed. Your blog too has it and i like it!

7876. Life is Colourful said in April 6th, 2008

Yes Chetan, even I like interacting with bloggers and the best way to do it is commenting.

9840. Paul said in May 11th, 2008

As I get tons of comments I actually will try this plugin!

9924. Mauritius said in May 13th, 2008

It’s a real nice thing to have this top commentators pluggin in blogs:) Is his pluggin applicable for blogger too?

9925. Mauritius said in May 13th, 2008

sorry i mean is this* pluggin applicable for blogger too?

10011. Reverse Merger said in May 13th, 2008

Yeah this is a great plugin to encourage visitor participation and increase regular visitors. I’m going to try it on all of my blogs to see what the results are.