FrançaisNew wordpress plugin: Gravatar top commenters
Today, I just passed by an article talking about MyBlogLog and basically, they are giving some reasons I totally agree with for not using the system.
In fact I used to use that service, but it’s a complete waste of space on your website, and most of the people displayed in there are not leaving comments anyway.
In this article, the author suggest the use of a plugin displaying top commenters or last commenters not only using their names, but also via gravatar service.
So, here is the plugin, he got the idea and I made it :)
Here is the list of features :
- Display whether Last commenters or top commenters
- Display user name (or not, via options)
- Display link to user’s website (or not, via options)
- Default gravatar
- Gravatar size
Once you installed the plugin, just add it to your sidebar and choose your options. A tutorial and Documentation will be written in the next days.
It’s not yet available through Wordpress extend, but it will be published today or tommorow. So you’ll be able to get automatic updates :)
redwall_hp
6 August 2008
Plugin looks good. Nice to see someone act upon my idea so quickly.
Anthony
6 August 2008
Well,
To me, coding is not the most difficult part, but getting the idea is !
If you have other ideas, don’t hesitate to share them ;)
baron
7 August 2008
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Todor Christov
8 August 2008
Great idea!
I installed and activated the plugin, but how to make it work? I am with Wordpress 2.6 and do not see any plugin options page where I could adjust it.
Can you please provide more info on the activation process?
Regards from Bulgaria!
Todor Christov
8 August 2008
Hold on, I got it. There is a special new widget addon, which appeared in the widget section. But because the name was a bit similar to another widget (Get Recent Comments), I got confused.
Now it works great! :-)
Dieter Petereit
8 August 2008
After Brian´s Latest Comments seized working from WP 2.5 upwards, I been looking for a plugin that does the same and some but couldn´t find one. Perhaps you find the idea as useful as I do. The plugin should output the latest comments in the form:
Postname1
commentername, commentername, commentername,…
X comments
Postname2
and so on
I find this threaded view much more transparent and not the less more interesting for readers. You can identify the most talked about posts with one look.
trench
9 August 2008
anyway to install without widgets.
禾草唐楷
9 August 2008
in my template,i haven’t widget,then how to use it?how to quote to my pages?
Anthony
11 August 2008
To activate the widget without widgetised sidebar, just include something like this :
< ?php $ZdComWidget->widget(); ?>
But be ware that you won’t be able to change options as they are only setup in the widget control panel.
brainsolid
11 August 2008
Great plugin!
Anthony, if i want display not Default gravatar, but avatar, that was generated by WP_Texticon plugin – what i must edit in your plugin?
Alexandre Pereira
12 August 2008
TRanslated to portuguese: Download
brainsolid
12 August 2008
broadly speaking, i search for plugin, that can show area with ONLY gravatars, like your Flickr widget, but with avatars. Each avatar link to author’s site or page with comment. This feature will be very cool…
Anthony
12 August 2008
Brainsolid, if you deactivate the option that display usernames, this plugin will do what you want ;)
Just style your css classes.
brainsolid
12 August 2008
But how i can show not default avatar, but avatars, generated by WP_Texticon?
Anthony
13 August 2008
Brainsolid,
I’ll have to look at a solution for that because I don’t know how it is supposed to work between WP_Texticon and gravatar
禾草唐楷
14 August 2008
@Anthony thanks for your help :-)
brainsolid
14 August 2008
Anthony, thank you very much!
Aegiale
22 August 2008
C’est moi qui l’ai mal configuré, ou le plugin n’affiche pas le lien vers l’article commenté pour chacun des commentateurs pris en compte ?
Aegiale
22 August 2008
Grumpf, désolée, j’ai posté trop vite; si j’ai bien compris, quand on choisit d’afficher les derniers commentateurs, le plugin n’affiche que ça : le nom des commentateurs, pas le post qui a été commenté.
Anthony
22 August 2008
Aegiale,
Effectivement, le but du plugin est de mettre en avant les lecteurs et pas les posts sur lesquels ils ont répondus. Je ferais surement une option pour mettre le post plutot que la personne.
xiaomo
29 August 2008
some advice:
1,exclude option should be added, if you dont want someone showed on the list, like the blog owner himself.
2,set a time limit to the top commenter, like: the top commenter of this week/ this month.
3,very thankful to your great plugin.
I like it..
^_^
Anthony
29 August 2008
Xiaomo,
Blog owner is automatically excluded. In fact any authentified user is excluded. I agree that it should be an option.
Ovidiu
2 September 2008
I’d love to use this plugin on wpmu not simple wordpress but the wordpress multi user edition. Here it doesn’t make sense to exclude registered/logged in users at all.
Also I guess the gravatar size is in px, right? What is expected inside the default gravatar field? an absolute path or an url?
Could this plugin not follow the settings of the wordpress isntallation meaning if that blog is setup to display either gravatar otherwise monsterid can’t this plugin also do that?
Another nice option would be to add a link to the post the user commented on, something like *avatar* – *commentername* – on *postname*
Anthony
3 September 2008
Ovidiu, Yes gravatar size is in pixels (I would advise to use 25 or 32).
In next release there will be an option not to exclude registered users.
Regarding monsterid, I have to look how to use this function.
Zhu
10 September 2008
Thank you very much for this plugin, this is exactly what I was looking for!
Zhu
10 September 2008
Actually, just a small thing (people always ask for more, don’t they!): is there a CSS to modify the look of the widget? For example, margins between the link and the gravatar.
Thanks!
Anthony
10 September 2008
Zhu,
You can customize the layout via the class used by the widget which is called : zd_CommentsWidget_widget
This would mean something like this : .zd_CommentsWidget_widget ul { your style for the global list }
.zd_CommentsWidget_widget ul li { your style for each item in the list }
Mishef
22 September 2008
Anthony great plugin, thanks!
I have 1 question: How to make it to show only gravatars without text (commentator name). I want Gravatars to show 5 per line and 5 in the column. Is something – http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7213/gravatarsfy9.gif
Anthony
22 September 2008
Mishef,
To do that, you have to uncheck the option Display Names.
To have multiple columns,rows, you have to tweak your CSS so that they are corretly aligned (have a look at ul li { float:left })
addiehf
27 September 2008
Great plugin :D thx
bbrian017
3 October 2008
Sweet mod I was considering adding it to my blogs and it seems I should have! Do you think most the comments here today are because you have this mod?
This was a serious question because if it’s so I will 100% install this mod.
Anthony
3 October 2008
Brian,
I do not have the plugin installed on my wordpress, so most comments on this post are because of the plugin, but not on my blog.
bbrian017
3 October 2008
ok so the mod you have is the regular Gravatar mod?
Anthony
4 October 2008
bbrian, the plugin i made is a widget with gravatars, which is not included by default. I do not use it, and yes, the comments are using the regular gravatar system from WP 2.6
bbrian017
6 October 2008
Alright I’m starting to catch on! I think I want the top commenters that allows the gravatar also!
Why don’t you use your own plugin here?
Anthony
6 October 2008
bbrian07, only a design matter :) I don’t want to put too much information on my sidebar.
nasgorkam
15 October 2008
I can’t thank you enough for the plugins, its work like magic :)
CMIIW but the styling that works for me is
#comments-widget ul {}
#comments-widget ul li {}
:D
fruityoaty
16 October 2008
Ditto on what the commenter above me said. To get it to appear in columns X rows (don’t display names), the CSS that worked for me is:
#comments-widget ul {
list-style-image:none;
list-style-position:outside;
list-style-type:none;
}
#comments-widget ul li {
float:left;
list-style-image:none !important;
list-style-position:outside !important;
list-style-type:none !important;
margin:2px !important;
}
Hope that helps newbies (coz I’m one). :)
Dustin
22 October 2008
Hello,
I was wondering if this could be altered to pull authors/blog contributors and display them in the same way.
I would like to sort them by the person who most recently posted.
I can pay for a plugin such as this.
Thank you.
Dustin
Jayson
12 November 2008
How do you make it reset after a certain # of days?
Anthony
12 November 2008
Jayson, this is an alltime top, so you can’t define an expiration on a # of days.
Raju
1 December 2008
hey! that’s a real cool plugin mate, loving it!
Frank
3 January 2009
@fruityoaty Thanks a ton for that! This has been on my ToDo list for months and last time I checked was before you commented.
And thanks for this plugin!
Richard
10 January 2009
I saw that and it made me think…
1- So you can show last/top comments in a widget, so why not a page?
2- Why not make comments list ajaxed, so that you could show a list of comments and expand the excerpt of any comment?
3- make an option to show list collapsed or all excerpts expanded
4- Make links from each comment to the post
5- make a reply link, using WP2.7 native nested comments code
Why do this? because now you have made a mini discussion board simply by joining together existing code from wordpress.
BT-active discussions has almost done this, but it seems to be inactive now.
Well you did say ‘getting the idea is’ the important part
Gopal Raju
24 January 2009
This is exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks dude,
Gopal
http://www.productivedreams.com
baka
10 March 2009
Hi Anthony!
Thank you very much fot that wonderful widget,but I have some problems regarding the display of my user gravatars which actually are not gravatars as I am using the user photo wordpress plugin. Is there a way to integrate the user photos instead of the gravatars? Any help would be greatly apreciated!
Max the Micro Niche Finder
23 March 2009
Hiya, i have seen your site when searching a few weeks ago and i really love the design! I just bought a new 3 character domain (cost me a packet) for a niche review blog, and i was wondering if your design is a free or paid one? I’m new to Wordpress and about to set it up, and i would really like to get something with a similar look to yours. Any ideas where i could download or buy something similar? Thanks for your help! :)
Anthony
24 March 2009
Max, this is neither a free nor a paid design. I made this design and I made some others. I will probably change my design soon to make it much more clean.
Gopal Raju
29 May 2009
Is it possible to remove admin from the top commenters list?
Gopal Raju’s last blog post..ProductiveDreams Reloaded
Gopal Raju
12 June 2009
BTW..please check out http://www.productivedreams.com (footer)to see the issue.
Gopal Raju´s last blog ..10 properties that ‘were’ impossible to implement in IE6
Anthony
13 June 2009
Yes, well; that was a feature request, before that, previous version was not displaying the admin. You may want to chack an older version as it’s the only change between the last two versions.
Gopal Raju
13 June 2009
Thanks for your reply,
Where can I get the previous version?
Gopal Raju´s last blog ..10 properties that ‘were’ impossible to implement in IE6
Anthony
13 June 2009
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zdcommentswidget/download/
You can grab the version 1.0
Gopal Raju
13 June 2009
Thanks buddy :) I hope this would work with wordpress 8?
Gopal Raju´s last blog ..10 properties that ‘were’ impossible to implement in IE6
Gopal Raju
14 June 2009
I’ve fixed it! http://www.productivedreams.com/
Gopal Raju´s last blog ..10 properties that ‘were’ impossible to implement in IE6
Andreas
16 June 2009
Hi!
I found a bug, sort of. The attribute ‘border=”0″‘ is not valid for image elements in strict xhtml. Why not just remove it since it can be changed in the css anyway?
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Anthony
16 June 2009
Yes, That should be left to the users to decide
Frank
27 June 2009
I’d like to be able to switch from using this plugin as a widget, to without a widget. Is there a way to do this? And still have the options I’ve chosen in the widget?
Title: Latest Commenters
Display: last Commenters
Default Gravatar:
Gravatar Size: 30
Display Count: 27
Display Commenter Name: Unchecked
Display Links: Unchecked
Display comment, not link: Unchecked
nofollow link: Unchecked
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