Show Top Commentators on your WordPress Blog
Most WordPress blogs usually have a Show Comments or rather Show Recent Comments option in their WordPress theme. However, you should take this step even further and reward people who comment the most on your blog by displaying their name and their blog/website prominently in a Top Commentators subsection.
Enter WordPress Show Top Commentators Plugin. Using this plugin, you can encourage even more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and the number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar. You can also link to their site without a nofollow tag if desired.
You can also set the settings on how often the plugin should reset the comment count whether it is from the last 30 days, last month or last year or the default all time option. In case your blog is starting out or you set the plugin to reset every month and it is the beginning of the month, you can set the plugin to display a message instead if nobody has commented yet.
Plugin Name: WP 2.x Top Commentators Plugin
Plugin Page:
http://www.pfadvice.com/wordpress-plugins/show-top-commentators/
Download WP Top Commentators Plugin
http://www.pfadvice.com/wp-content/plugins/show_top_commentators.zip
Install the Top Commentators Plugin for your WordPress Blog
Step # 1: Download and extract the plugin to your computer. You will find a show_top_commentators.php file.
Step # 2: Using your FTP client, upload the show_top_commentators.php to your Wordpress plugin directory at wp-content/plugins. Once you upload this file, you need to change the file permissions to all or chmod 777. This is needed if you wish to make changes to the plugin options which I will talk about below
Step # 3: The best place to show your Top Commentators is in the sidebar of your Blog. Check out the TechCounter homepage or any post on how I display the Top Commentators to this blog. So, in your WordPress Admin Dashboard, go to Presentation –> Theme Editor. Once in there, select the sidebar template usually called sidebar.php. Add the following code to your template in the spot where you want the top commentators to be displayed.
<?php if(function_exists(’ns_show_top_commentators’)) { ?>
<li>
<h2>Top Commentators</h2>
<ul><?php ns_show_top_commentators(); ?></ul>
</li>
<?php } ?>
Step # 4: Modify options (this is not required)
There are currently 9 options you can modify inside ’show_top_commentators.php’. Note, you will not be able to edit these options unless you had chmod’d the show_top_commentators.php file to 777 (see step # 2)
a. filter_users option
This option lets you filter out any usernames you don’t want to be shown. Here, a good example would be Administrator or your blog nick name. This filters out from showing you as one of the top commentators on your blog. If you blog is new, I would recommend that you do not edit this option and as you get more and more commentators, filter out your name.
Step # 5: Activate the Top Commentators Plugin
Got to Plugins from your WordPress Admin Dashboard. Scroll down till you see Show Top Commentators and click Activate
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May 14th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Nice. We will be implenting this in our blog soon…
May 27th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
This is really a good plugin. I have installed it at my blog.
June 4th, 2007 at 8:24 am
I installed it and I must say that it is working great! Thank you for the instructions so everyone can benefit!
June 5th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Great !
November 26th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Very nice plugin, I’m testing it out on my blog now.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I’ve started to see alot of blogs using this plugin, I might have to give it a go
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
This works perfectly, thanks!
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Any updates for the newer versions of Wordpress?
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December 13th, 2008 at 3:57 am
I think that having a top commentators tool on your blog will help you boost your traffic.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:04 am
It is important to give reward for our top commentators. I have installed the widget too. Thanks for the guidance.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I am going to start using this plugin on one of my blogs to see if i like it or not. thanks for the info.
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May 9th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Thanks for the tip I have been trying to figure out how to start getting people to comment on my blogs this may be a good way.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:30 am
This is a really effective method for getting people to come back to your site. There is an incentive for blogger and commenter alike. The downside is that a lot of comments are spam. Good post.
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June 1st, 2009 at 3:55 am
i think that top commentators section is good encouragement for active commentators. without good comments even good article is not full.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I heard a sports commentator mention “top stepping” and I didn’t know what he was talking about.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I am wondering about the longevity of this plugin from the commentators point of view. On a seriously busy blog (which is where you want to be linked from) then you will get knocked off as quickly as you are on. This might be ok for short term gain, but I don’t see any long term benefit.
November 14th, 2009 at 7:57 am
The great thing is that commentators can google ‘top commentators’ and see your blog. Well, they then use your blog for getting backlinks. Those who spam can easily be banned those who really contribute something can be rewarded and in this way more and more people will be visiting your blog. So yes it’s a great plugin.
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January 6th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Wonderful plugin. I’ll be using it on my new site.
January 15th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Top Commentators is an amazing plugin. I use it on all of my blogs and it really does increase the amount of REAL comments from readers, as there is an incentive for them to post. You can pick up alot of links from 1 post. Thanks
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May 12th, 2010 at 11:14 am
I agree with yo misma, if we could take out our own names and have a link that would go to the persons blog instead of the post they replied to.
June 4th, 2010 at 5:07 am
That is a good idea even though it is something I do not need at this time! I will get more and more comments in the future and then I will use it a lot. Thank you. You guys are really working hard!
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July 15th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Yeah I think this plugin would be really great as most people compete for the top commenter most likely the blog would benefit for that, but take note that only relevant comments would be counted.