Two WordPress plugins to increase comments
There are two WordPress plugins designed to increase comments. I think it will be positive, especially after I explain the benefits.
Subscribe to Comments 2.0
Subscribe to Comments 2.0 will add a “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” check box below the submit comment button so users can keep track of the comments. When a new comment is made to the post, an email is sent to the subscriber notifying them. This is a much better system than subscribing to the individual comment RSS.
This plugin is very easy to install. Just follow these steps:
1. Upload subscribe-to-comments.php to [wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/
2. Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate this plugin.
3. Optional: if your WordPress theme doesn’t have the comment_form hook, or if you would like to manually determine where in your comments form the subscribe checkbox appears, enter this where you would like it:
<?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?>
4. Optional: If you would like to enable users to subscribe to comments without having to first leave a comment, place this somewhere in your template, but make sure it is outside the comments form. A good place would be right after the ending </form> tag for the comments form:
<?php show_manual_subscription_form(); ?>
Show Top Commentators
Show Top Commentators plugin encourages more discussion and feedback from your readers by displaying their names (linked to their website if desired) and number of comments they have made recently. The links on the Top Commentators are full links without a nofollow tag. That mean you’ll get loved by Google as well as traffic! Just make sure your comment is a real comment not spam.
This plugin is very easy to install. Just follow these steps:
1. Upload show_top_commentators.php to [wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/
2. Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate this plugin.
3. Add <?php ns_show_top_commentators(); ?> to the part of your template where you want the top commentators to appear. The sidebar would be the most common place.
4. Optional: you can use the code below too.
<?php if(function_exists('ns_show_top_commentators')) { ?>
<li>
<ul><?php ns_show_top_commentators(); ?></ul>
</li>
<?php } ?>
This plugin gives you the options to adjust the resetting from a day, a week, a month, a week, or never.
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