BlogFollow for Your Comments

BlogFollow is a cool Wordpress plugin I just found. In addition to being a “do follow” blogger I will now show a snippet from your blog at the bottom of your comment. All you have to do is input your normal URL and your feed will be determined automatically.

Feel free to try it out by commenting to this (or any other) post. If you like the plugin head on over to SiteAMonth and download it for your Wordpress blog.

Added note: This plugin has been disabled. I gave it a good try but it made my comments page too cluttered and messy looking. I still think it is a good idea and if there ever is a way to modify the plugin with different options I might take another look at it.

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Elizabeth MonsterID Icon Comment by Elizabeth UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2
2007-06-17 20:02:44

Ooh, I want to see how it works!

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-17 20:36:31
Nice! I was afraid it might not work well, hehe… I looked back at some of the earlier comments and the plugin didn’t pick up the feed… :(
 
 
Lavender MonsterID Icon Comment by Lavender AUSTRALIA Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-06-17 20:47:45

Hi Ana, Im curious to see if it will pick up a piece of my blog, since Im over at blogger.com - only one way to find out, eh?
For some strange reason, here in Australia we do the Fathers day thing in September…..mothers day is still the same day as the USA tho…I think they are just trying to keep this ex-yank confused.
Cheers~

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-17 20:59:02
Well, darnit, it didn’t seem to pick up your feed from Blogger.com… I’m pretty disappointed in that… but heck, come back anytime… I’m a “do follow” blogger… :)
 
 
Elizabeth MonsterID Icon Comment by Elizabeth UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2
2007-06-17 20:57:52

It didn’t work on my blog. I activated it, and when I went and looked at a post from this morning that had comments on it, and there was a database error warning. Let me ask you this-in addition to uploading the blogfollow.php file to my plugins folder, was I also supposed to upload the .png file? Any help you could give me on getting this plugin going would be greatly appreciated!

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-17 21:00:03
Let me think on it a second and then I’ll edit this comment with the steps I took to get it working…

Okay, you’re supposed to upload the whole folder into the plugins folder… so yes, the .png file is uploaded also…

 
 
Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-17 21:05:07
Test. I don’t want my feed to show up but I think my avatar won’t appear if I don’t input my URL.

Oh, I’m logged in. I guess I’ll have to put up with looking at my own feed but I think that is a bit redundant. :(

 
Carlie MonsterID Icon Comment by Carlie AUSTRALIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9
2007-06-18 05:29:59

I just want to comment to test this out! It sounds very interesting. I also have the do follow activated on my site, but I’m not sure about this plugin - it might make my comments too cluttered

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-18 12:26:33
It didn’t pick up your feed for some reason. I can’t figure out why it misses some.

I can understand about not wantint to make your comments too cluttered. I wish there was a way to omit my own feed from showing up in comments. I’ll leave it for a week or two and see how I like it after that. I trial and error plugins all the time, I just love plugins, hehe…

Carlie MonsterID Icon Comment by Carlie AUSTRALIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9
2007-06-18 19:05:53

I wonder why my own feed didn’t show up. I changed my url to have the www in it to see if that makes a difference.

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-19 11:41:43
I can’t figure that one out either. :(
 
 
 
 
Morocco Travel MonsterID Icon Comment by Morocco Travel PHILIPPINES Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-06-18 06:27:51

good thing I chose wordpress over Blogger. Thanks for this cool info, man.

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-18 12:27:49
My pleasure… come back any time… :)
 
 
Sean MonsterID Icon Comment by Sean UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
2007-06-19 06:14:44

Yea I am going down the do follow blogroll and commenting to get my name out there too. It is pretty decent plugin, my girlfriend uses it.

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-19 11:42:22
Come back any time… :)
 
 
Elizabeth MonsterID Icon Comment by Elizabeth UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2
2007-06-19 14:08:47

Okay, that plugin is SO COOL. The first comment I left showed an excerpt from that day’s post, but when I came back today, the excerpt had changed to my most recent post. I just wish I could get it to work!

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-19 14:46:11
I installed it on my new blog A Geek Mom’s Net Journey and the CSS changes wouldn’t take. It looked ugly so I uninstalled it. Maybe if you leave a comment at the author’s site detailing your issue/error he can help you out.
 
 
Cynthia Blue MonsterID Icon Comment by Cynthia Blue UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
2007-06-20 14:10:59

Hmm that sounds like a really cool plugin. I may have to check it out.

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-20 14:16:46
Sometimes it doesn’t pick up feeds… :(

Don’t know what’s wrong with it…

 
 
aylee MonsterID Icon Comment by aylee UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-06-20 19:27:51

Hi Anna! Interesting plugin. I’m not sure if you found another edit comments plugin coz the one that I had does not work with the new version of WP. But I found another one and so easy to use: http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/wp-ajax-edit-comments/

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-20 19:30:27
Yay! thanks so much… :)

I never did get the other one working… I’ll check it out right away.. thanks again…

 
 
aylee MonsterID Icon Comment by aylee UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-06-20 19:39:39

The other one doesn’t work with versions higher than 2.0.x. But the new is a lot easier, you don’t have to do anything with your theme template :)

Hmmm… my feed is not showing up.

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-20 19:42:44
I don’t know why some feeds don’t show up and I’m not sure if the author is supporting this plugin anymore… I wish there was a way to exclude my own feed… I might not leave the feed plugin on here if it keeps annoying me…
 
Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
2007-06-20 19:50:22
Aylee, your MyBlogLog avatar isn’t showing up either… something is haywire somewhere…

Okay, I have the edit comments plugin installed… so here I am testing it out…

Edit: yay, I think it is working… *grin* was it good for you…?

Edit number 2: Okay, there is supposed to be a countdown… where is the countdown…?

Edit number 3: I hope people that are subscribed to a thread don’t get an email every time I edit! haha, now that would really be annoying…

aylee MonsterID Icon Comment by aylee UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-06-20 22:00:49

lol! I only got 2 emails so it wasn’t emailing every time you edit. But you have the option to email it every edit, for the admin I think.

It was good in mine. It was showing up the counter too. But I took it out under Options.

EDIT: I see the countdown :)

 
 
 
Jenny-up the hill MonsterID Icon Comment by Jenny-up the hill UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-06-22 13:38:31

Neat…thanks for sharing this plugin. I don’t have a wordpress template but I know a lot of other people do!

Anna MonsterID Icon Comment by Anna UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
2007-07-13 01:56:59
I’m a bit late on the reply Jenny, sorry… I was by your site a little while ago - very nice… :)

Thanks for coming by and come back any time. :)

 
 
blogging tips MonsterID Icon Comment by blogging tips UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-06-24 16:42:05

Nice find! I have never seen this plugin before, but it looks nice and is another great way to reward readers

 

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