As you run your blog you may find yourself building relationships with some of your visitors. I know that when someone puts in the time to be a repeat commentator to Search-This I often find myself wanting to investigate that person a little. I may visit their blog and read a handful of their posts. I then usually look for an about page to get a brief bio of the person. I guess we all like to know who we’re inviting into our homes…
One of the problems I had at Search-This was that I could never easily tell how many comments a given person contributed. It would be nice to know who our top commentators are, not just for a given month but overall.
In addition to satisfying my own curiosity, I thought you guys might also like to know how many comments total you have logged.
Now we both can tell!
Simply mouseover the dude representing you for your comment and it shows you your total comments. It also displays links to the last three posts you commented in. See the screenshot below:
April 14th, 2008 at 9:54 am
You could get some great exposure by turning this into a wordpress plugin (if it isn’t already one).
April 14th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Hey hubs, I may turn it into a plugin yet. The tricky part is to get it to work with ANY theme out there…
April 14th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I’d also like to see this as a plugin
April 14th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Awsome plugin! I think I should also communicate with my blog’s commentators and those in search-this as well. =)
April 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Awesome-awesome feature! And I agree with the other commentators that this would make a killer WordPress plugin!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I could definitely see this catching on. It would, however, be nice if the information was pre-loaded. That would avoid the hover delay. Of course there’s always a trade-off.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I do the same thing with visitors on our blog. I think I’m just curious; doing a little bit of investigative work on people is always a little fun.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Thirty something comments? I gotta get out more.
Are the comments attached to the name or email? or both?
April 15th, 2008 at 8:00 am
@Patrick - 36 comments to be exact
See how I can know that now… And we love your comments! It’s based on email.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:20 am
Great plugin, I will adopt it in my blog, looks fantastic!