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16.09.2007

As I already announced in my previous post, I sat down and rewrote the Show Top Commentators-Plugin by Nate Sanden to make it a fully configurable Sidebar Widget.

As of now I publish this Sidebar Widget for common public use, since the code it is based upon has been published under GPL license as well ;)

DOWNLOAD WIDGET

The zip file contains a README which includes the installation instructions, but as always concerning Sidebar Widgets, it is pretty easy. Here you can see a screenshot demonstrating both the option panel of the Widget and useful presets for the different options:

Here’s a brief description of all options:

  • Widget title
    Your Widget should have a title which is shown in your sidebar.
  • Reset
    The statistics are reset automatically; by default the reset happens each week, but you may choose between hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis to reset the stats. If you do not want to reset at all, just choose the “all” option. Note: Using a larger time interval may result in the effect that some trolly people start spamming your blog to receive a backlink for a long period of time from your blog.
  • Number of Commenters
    How many commentators should be visible in the top commentators list?
  • Filter user names
    You usually do not want to be counted as a commentator for yourself, so you usually filter Administrator or admin or your own username on your blog.
  • Filter user IDs
    If you prefer filtering by userid rather than adding the usernames to be filtered, you may choose this option instead.
  • Filter user URLs
    If you just want to block some certain URLs in the list, here’s your chance to do so.
  • Define your ‘none’ text
    As long as thete’s no new comment after a reset has happened, the text configured here will be shonw in your sidebar.
  • Link to users’ URLs
    You may get rid of the spammer prblem at all, if you disable linking to your commentators’ homepages.
  • Show comments amount per user
    You may choose to display the amount of comments a particular user has posted since the last reset of the statistics.
  • Name length limit
    Long usernames tend to break the layout of the sidebar, so this is your option to choose how many characters of the username should be used before abbreviating the name.

Have fun with this widget! Your comments and feedback are appreciated as always, as well as a little donation to honor my work.

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  1. Joel Teixeira sagt:

    18.09.2007 von 22:16 (UTC 0 )

    Great work!!!

    I’m using on http://www.joelteixeira.net
    thank you a lot.

  2. crucible sagt:

    23.09.2007 von 17:43 (UTC 0 )

    Hm….”seems” to be great widget.
    Just installed it n but actually at the moment it does not show anything than the topic.
    Does it has to wait until a refrsh or something like that?
    Greetings
    Thomas

  3. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    23.09.2007 von 21:11 (UTC 0 )

    did you configure it in the widget’s detail dialog?
    does your blog contain any comments which have been posted and published in the configured span of time?

  4. pcmasters sagt:

    24.09.2007 von 21:57 (UTC 0 )

    Schönes Plugin. Danke für den kostenlosen Download, habe ich in unserem Blog mit eingebunden.

  5. pelf sagt:

    11.10.2007 von 08:10 (UTC 0 )

    I have recently upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and find that the plugin doesn’t work anymore. I would like to confirm whether hte plugin is compatible with WordPress 2.3?

  6. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    11.10.2007 von 10:18 (UTC 0 )

    since this blog here is running WP 2.3 (respective first nightly builds of WP 2.4) and since the widget works fine here, I’d presume it’s compliant to WP 2.3 ;)

  7. pelf sagt:

    11.10.2007 von 11:58 (UTC 0 )

    OK, so do you have any idea why it isn’t working properly? Two of my recent commentators are listed in the Top Commentators list like they would normally be.. And I wonder why. FYI, I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.3 last night.

  8. pelf sagt:

    11.10.2007 von 12:01 (UTC 0 )

    Sorry, typo. My previous comment should have read:

    OK, so do you have any idea why it isn’t working properly? Two of my recent commentators AREN’T listed in the Top Commentators list like they would normally be.. And I wonder why. FYI, I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.3 last night.

  9. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    11.10.2007 von 14:07 (UTC 0 )

    can’t see the issue – there are ten commentators listed on your page, each of them having one comment in the recent week.
    remember that the list is reset every week, if you configured it to do so, and will show up only as many commentators as you have set as well.
    so it is only a matter of configuration, but in general the widget obviously works fine.

  10. iKArus sagt:

    05.11.2007 von 14:34 (UTC 0 )

    @pelf: It works great with WP 2.3 and 2.3.1 …

  11. BONTB sagt:

    06.11.2007 von 18:05 (UTC 0 )

    I just downloaded i love it , thank you!

  12. David sagt:

    15.11.2007 von 14:13 (UTC 0 )

    I like the look of this plugin and will try it out later!

  13. VinZ sagt:

    23.11.2007 von 23:46 (UTC 0 )

    Thanks for this great plugin ! I like it ! Just an idea. Is it possible to combine this plugin with a plugin like MBLA (kamajole.dk/blog/plugins/mbla) to see Mybloglog avatars of top commentators ? I think it’s just a question of insert the code in the plugin code, but where ? I’m really not an expert and if you have an idea, it would be a nice feature i think ;)

  14. Stephen Hopson sagt:

    24.11.2007 von 14:43 (UTC 0 )

    According to your README text, I am supposed to download this plug in to the following directory:

    wp-content/plugins/widgets directory

    But what I see is:

    wp-content/plugins directory – I do not see a “widgets” directory/sub-directory. Am I still supposed to drop the “top_commentators_widget.php” file in the plugin directory and not worry about finding a widget directory??

    Please advise. This looks like a GREAT plug-in but I’m confused by the “widget” directory instruction since I do not see a “widget” directory. All I see are a bunch of plug-ins with .php files in the plug-in directory.

  15. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    24.11.2007 von 15:59 (UTC 0 )

    @vinZ: should not be a big issue, as long as there’s an interface to dock mbla into any other plugin (I don’t know mbla, so I cannot answer this for sure).

    @stephen: this widget requires the Sidebar Widgets plugin (which has been a separate plugin for WP up to 2.2 and is now included in WordPress 2.3 out of the box).

  16. VinZ sagt:

    25.11.2007 von 14:59 (UTC 0 )

    Good plugin, i use it. Thank you!

  17. 7162 sagt:

    04.12.2007 von 21:52 (UTC 0 )

    Hallihallo.
    Erst einmal kann ich mich natürlich nur anschließen und mich bei dir für deine sinnvolle Erweiterung bedanken.
    Mein eigentliches Anliegen ist es aber, dazu anzuregen, eine Listen-lösch-Option zwischen monatlich und jährlich einzubauen. Alle 3 Monate z.B. Hab zwar n bisschen in der PHP rumgeguckt um es selbst hinzuzufügen, aber konnte nichts finden. Wäre super wenn du das einbauen würdest, oder mir sagst wie :)

    VG

  18. Umar sagt:

    07.12.2007 von 14:08 (UTC 0 )

    err…. I don’t see anything after installing and activating the plugin and displaying the widget.

  19. clairec23 sagt:

    09.12.2007 von 21:55 (UTC 0 )

    I get this error message, any ideas?

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 10]
    SELECT COUNT(comment_author) AS comment_comments, comment_author FROM wp_comments o WHERE DATE_FORMAT(comment_date, ‘%Y-%m’) = DATE_FORMAT(CURDATE(), ‘%Y-%m’) AND comment_author NOT IN(”) AND user_id NOT IN(”) AND comment_author != ” AND comment_type != ‘pingback’ AND comment_approved = ’1′ GROUP BY comment_author ORDER BY comment_comments DESC LIMIT

  20. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    09.12.2007 von 22:34 (UTC 0 )

    yeah – you simply forgot to configure the widget. read the fine manual, boy :D

  21. Alfred sagt:

    22.12.2007 von 11:40 (UTC 0 )

    I tried your widget on my new blog, but there is a problem.

    Some commentators names and number of posts are getting messed up (not in one line)

    Any idea how to solve this ?

  22. statusuri sagt:

    04.01.2008 von 22:21 (UTC 0 )

    Wow..Thx a lot..I love this plugin and my commentators too

  23. Alex sagt:

    11.02.2008 von 04:07 (UTC 0 )

    thank you! it’s great! :-)

  24. Graham Smith sagt:

    11.02.2008 von 15:39 (UTC 0 )

    Hello
    Just wanted to say that unfortunately, I have the same problem as Umar.

    The plug-in is installed and configured, but only the header shows up on my sidebar. No commentators are listed at all.

    I use WP 2.3.1 with the K2 Theme.

    Would be really cool if you are able to offer any insight to this as I really think this plug-in is cool, and have seen it working on other sites.

    Graham
    ImJustCreative
    “On: Web & Blog Ramblings from the Gutter”

  25. Jam-Npo sagt:

    23.02.2008 von 23:54 (UTC 0 )

    Ok, Thanks. Yo no podía poner mi top commentators, gracias por la ayuda y por modificarlo.
    Saludos
    Bye

  26. titan sagt:

    25.02.2008 von 20:31 (UTC 0 )

    Ehm..its interesting. I will give my best try for this plugin. Hope its worth!

  27. Sum sagt:

    03.03.2008 von 01:40 (UTC 0 )

    Carsten,

    I notice that you reversed the comment order and have the comments shown in different pages.

    How to do that?

  28. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    03.03.2008 von 17:52 (UTC 0 )

    that’s a feature unique to my Binary Blue theme suite.

  29. Flo sagt:

    15.04.2008 von 00:00 (UTC 0 )

    thanks. I love you

  30. gedet basumatary sagt:

    15.04.2008 von 13:26 (UTC 0 )

    Thanks buddy,
    This plugin is great. I have installed in my blog and is working fine.

  31. luq sagt:

    19.04.2008 von 10:27 (UTC 0 )

    Thanks,this is the only ‘top commentators’ widget that works on WP 2.5 perfectly.

  32. moserw sagt:

    21.04.2008 von 13:09 (UTC 0 )

    Thanks a lot for modifying it. Been looking for this for a while. Really appreciate it and it is very helpful and useful too.

    moserw
    http://www.nela.in

  33. MeNpHiS sagt:

    26.04.2008 von 18:49 (UTC 0 )

    Gracias, lo tengo instalado en mi blog funciona perfectamente en wordpress 2.5

  34. PinoyRak sagt:

    01.05.2008 von 05:32 (UTC 0 )

    I tried 3 other versions of this plugin but this one works like magic. Thank you Carsten. Keep doing that good thing.

  35. Joel Teixeira sagt:

    01.05.2008 von 19:04 (UTC 0 )

    Hi friend,

    Thanks for the great plugin, may you tell me how can I specify the numbers of days to reset.

    45 days for example.

    Very very thank you.

  36. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    01.05.2008 von 19:52 (UTC 0 )

    no specification of days, only the options in the “reset” dropdown may be used.

  37. Chris sagt:

    04.05.2008 von 10:50 (UTC 0 )

    Would it be possible to have a similar Plugin for the Top Contributors of a Blog? I’m planning a site with voluntary authors and it would be great to show off who is submitting the most articles.

    Or can there simply something be changed in the code?

    Many thanks! ;-)

  38. Jen sagt:

    14.05.2008 von 22:52 (UTC 0 )

    Hi there,

    I just installed this plugin on my friend’s blog that I’ve set up for her (link above) but it’s not picking up the comments we just imported from her old wordpress.com blog. I’ve tried reinstalling it but it is still only picking up my 2 test comments while I was setting up the blog. Probably something really simple, but can you tell me where we’re going wrong?! We have it set to a list of 10 and All comments.

    Thanks!

  39. Jen sagt:

    15.05.2008 von 11:27 (UTC 0 )

    Further to my last message, it’s actually only picking up new comments from me, despite not filtering any user names etc. Any ideas?!

  40. Carsten Albrecht sagt:

    15.05.2008 von 18:03 (UTC 0 )

    jan, it depends on your configuration how old comments are allowed to be to be taken into account. the default period of time is one week.
    furtheron, I cannot exclude that imported comments lack necessary information to be taken into account.

  41. hakimtea sagt:

    09.06.2008 von 17:45 (UTC 0 )

    Thanks for the plugins is awsome… I will write a new entry about this, thanks to nate too :)

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