This weeks WordPress Plugins spotlight brings you some great plugins that will help you enhance your comments on your blog - - making reader interaction more fun and pleasant! Your readers will thank you!
4Avatars - A simple Plugin for WordPress that allows you to add avatars to comments on your blog. Avatars are from MyBlogLog or Gravatar or even from Polish site Avatars. Of curse avatars are NOT saved on your ftp! 4Avatars have very simple options page which allows you to choose site with avatars and choose default avatar which will be shown when author of comment doesn’t have any.
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CommentLUV - Everyone enjoys a little love now and then, don’t they? All you need is love. . . . Pass a bit of luv onto your commenters by providing a titled link to their last blog post. This plugin attempts to parse the feed of the comment author by visiting their site and looking in the standard locations for a feed.
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Top Commentators Widget - A sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Reward your commentators a little by giving additional sidebar link love to those who comment the most on your blog, thereby contributing the most to the discussion.
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AJAX Comment Posting - This plugin allows you, and your readers, to comment on a post without refreshing the comments page. VERY VERY handy, especially on a site that gets a fair amount of comments.. or has a very active discussion. Who wants to reload the site everytime — makes nice with server load, as well.
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Subscribe to Comments - Absolutely no listing of comments plugins would be complete without Mark Jaquith’s Subscribe to Comments. As a matter of fact, this very plugin is used as *the* ‘real world’ example in the WordPress For Dummies book for the mechanics of finding, downloading, installing and managing plugins on a WordPress blog. Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!
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Do you have a favorite comments plugin? Do share!
