Hey all, now you know why I haven’t posted in more than a week. I have been working hard on this plugin. Thanks to Paul and Rafael for all their help.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think. Not sure how it works? Just mouseover my name above (Golgotha). See the tip!

Wow… this is a fantastic plugin…. when I get home from work (leaving now) I will definitely be installing this!!!

Nice! Thanks for the plugin – installing it ASAP

Love it! Keep up the good work.

Cool plugin.
Will install it in my blog too

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Hey Colin, thanks for the feedback. Let me head on over to your blog and see what you are talking about. OR if you have a screenshot that may help too.

“Is there a way to have it only operate on single post pages?” – right now, no.

Hey Colin, I see what you are talking about.

In the comment-info-tip.css file you can try and remove the last line:

.commentTipWrapper a, .commentTipWrapperOver a {white-space:nowrap;}

But keep in mind what the tip is doing. It tries to find the top, right location of the commentators name. If that is multiple lines then you may see some unexpected results; which is why the CSS is there to stop wrapping.

I’m not sure what else can be done, but I will give it some more thought. Thanks and keep me posted.

There are some other cosmetic changes I have noted for the next release too.

@Colin, yep, may need some logic to pop up left or right. Oh well, still not bad for version 1 as it should work for MOST blogs just fine. Just not for Colin

Pretty bling. I put it up and I like it a lot. Pardon me if I recolored it and mangled your one image file to fit my theme.

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hello, I have installed your plugin on my blog: Helektron.com and the characters are not displayed well. I am using UTF-8. Any idea?

@Victor – I’m not sure what you mean by “the characters are not displayed well?” One thing that I need to fix is the line-height. I need to lock it at 1.2em. Some people, you are one of them, have set a line-height in their body and that is effecting the spacing.

You can modify the CSS and set .commentTipPopUp to line-height:1.2em

I will be making some fixes this weekend.

Hi, the plugin looks fantastic but I can’t get it to work on my site at all. I thought maybe it was down to a plugin clash, and tried turning all the others off but no luck whatsoever.

Any ideas? I’d love to get this up and running. I’m wondering, maybe there’s a way of inserting some code manually into my theme’s comment.php file or some such, to force it to work?

I’m using wp-ajax-comments for on-site editing of comments by admin and users, but as I say, it doesn’t seem to impact whether that’s turned on or off.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

well, its very useful plugin but

The first time I activated it, it worked but when I mouseover on the commenter name, it give me a the tip but with the whole design of my blog crashed in it.

I tried to deactivate the plugin to see whats wrong and when I activated it again, it didn’t work! (it gives me just “loading …” in the tip)

help please

I installed, but if the commenter don’t put website, the over function don’t show the tooltip…

What can I do?

Thank you!!

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This is a great plugin, but it doesn’t want to play nicely with the Wavatars plugin (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462) – it causes the generation of a second wavatar right next to the original one. Have a look at some of the commented-on posts on my blog and you’ll see what I mean.

BG

Hi there, I like the plugin really much.

But I have a little complaint. This plugin only shows information for commenters who have added their URL, if not, the plugin doesn’t work.

What do I have to do to show info for every commenter, no matter if they have a web or not?

Thanks and bye!!

@Andy – strange, but I’m glad you got it working.

@Ahmed Hazem – since all your commenter’s names are on the right and the tip also appears to the right of the name it may end up displaying the horizontal scrollbar for you. Sorry.

@stagueve – could you be a little more descriptive? What is happening?

@apple.bloks.cat and @Jaluro – If they don’t give a url then there is no link. That’s how WordPress did it so I just left it that way.

@BG – I took a look, but you must have deactivated the plugin before I could tell. But I want to say it’s the Wavatars plugin that is not playing well with the Comment Info tip plugin 

@koz – I realize that it won’t work for every blog, but it really should work for most blogs. The tip is absolute positioned (which removes it from the flow) and it’s right before the close of the body; this should allow it to work on most blogs.

@FruityOaty – It should work in Firefox, IE6 and IE7 and Opera. I tested it there. You may have something else causing a problem?

Nice, nice.

Can I translate it into spanish? I don’t kow if I have to ask you, but I think so. Well, just waiting for an answer

Tried but got many errors though I tried to fix it.

include_once(“{$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/wp-config.php”);
include_once(“{$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/wp-includes/wp-db.php”);
include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’);

I fixed it to my own url

include_once(“http: slash slash www dot myokyawhtun dot com/wp-config.php”);
include_once(“http: slash slash www dot myokyawhtun dot com/wp-includes/wp-db.php”);
include_once(‘http: slash slash www dot myokyawhtun dot com/wp-includes/rss.php’);

rss.php under wp-includes in wordpress 2.5 has lots of errors since came out, your plugin will not work.

Is it compatible with WordPress 2.5? I’m using 2.5.1 for my site.

Best regards,

Myo Kyaw Htun

@Golgotha – your plugin’s been kept active on my blog for the last 16 hours, have another look. Try http://beardedgit.com/?p=440#comment-2978
I posted a blog entry about it yesterday, I’ve now added a screenshot.
I’ve had Wavatars active for many months now with no ill effects. Later today I’ll try the Gravatars plugin too and see what happens.

Great plugin, maybe I’ll use it on my blog with the new plugin.

Thanks for having another look, Golgotha.

It works fine with the Gravatars plugin and with the Easy Gravatars plugin.

If you need any more info, just shout.

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Hi,

Firstly let me congratulate you on a good idea. It’s a nice little plugin that provide some interesting information for both, admin and other users.

I downloaded and installed it and it seems to work very well on my 2.3.3 installation.

I do have a couple of points to raise. Firstly the color. On my theme I will have to edit the image and re-color the CSS. Obviously not a big problem but perhaps you could either reconsider the colors to work on light and dark themes or offer a light and dark version.

The second point is more important and that almost makes it a show stopper for me.

I dislike forcing my readers to leave their emails, so I unchecked this option in my admin settings.

This means all posters who leave a URL but no email address a treated as one person. At least that what it looks like.

Is it possible to use the username instead of the email?

@PlanetPhillip – Feel free to mod the colors. I use the email address because that’s more of a unique-identifier. Two people are not likely to have the same email address, but it’s pretty common for two people to use the same name. So that’s why I chose the email address.

Works very satisfying!!

@Susan and ALL – feel free to mod it, but please don’t redistribute it and if you wouldn’t mind please send me your moded files. I may decide to incorporate the changes into the next version.

Thanks,
Mark

@EvilFaeton – interesting, good to know. I will be making an update this weekend.

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VERSION 1.2
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New version released – 1.2

I’ve made changes to the SQL as well as some CSS additions.

Once again, I don’t expect this plugin to work for everyone. Some of you do god-only-knows with your layout. However, since the plugin places the tip div right before the close of the body and then moves it into position via means of JavaScript it should work for ‘most’.

hmmm, still having problems getting this amazing plugin to work with ‘Brian’s Threaded Comments’.

For some reason the ‘loading…’ message pops up in Firefox but nothing else happens…

Any ideas???

@Jim – let me go have a look…

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Am in general a fan of this after installing today. Really excellent idea and well implemented, promotes a good commenting community.

Couple of points:

Although I have seo friendly URLs enabled on the site, the plugin directs to the basic “blogname.com/?p=35″ URL. That still works functionally but isn’t so great for analysing web stats. Any way to change that?

Also any way of changing the information shown – e.g. able to take out the blog post snippet from the pop-up? Won’t necessarily do this, but curious on the functionality.

Thanks – I appreciate you looking into this because I love this plug-in.

Will keep my eyes open for your email with the solution.

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VERSION 1.4
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New version released – 1.4

For those of you that had the plugin only show the ‘loading…’ text it should now work. I think…

I know that’s at least Jim L and Stephen Hopson that should care. Please try it and let me know. Thanks

Damn it Jim! I’m not sure, I think it’s a pathing problem.

Notice what I get returned when I path right to mine: http://www.search-this.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-info-tip/get-comment-info-tip.php?commentID=60449

I can’t get yours to do the same, check to see if you can…

@Jim L – When I bring up the script in firebug on your site there’s nothing there. So you got some other issues going on. Sorry…

thanks for the wp plugins ..

will give it a try in my blog

Chris- Another thing I noticed is your theme appears to be based off Sandbox by plaintxt.org. My theme is also from plaintxt.org, the plaintxtblog theme. Could have something to do with the themes?

Thanks,
Jim

Yepper Jim L, I’m using Sandbox by plaintxt.org. Hmmm, the plot thickens…

Anyone else using Brian’s Threaded Comments?

(I’d like to rule this out if others aren’t having a problem with it)

I can’t get it show for me either. (Temporarily disabled.) Running Ajax Edit Comments – and have a persnickety CSS theme.

@Jim – Alright Jim, let’s try this one more time. Download 1.5 and install it and let me have a look. I’m not sure this is going to work for you, but let me at least have a look at it.

It’s out now. Download away. No ‘major’ changes. Just some minor stuff to see what happens for those that are having issues.

Same here. Guess it just wasn’t meant to be. Thanks for trying to tweak it though!

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VERSION 1.6
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New version released – 1.6

Most of the problems that people were/are having are pathing problems. I’ve come up with one solution (thanks to Matt) that seems to work.

So give it shot.

YIPPIE!!!! IT WORKS!!!!

Golgotha, do you have a tip jar?????

Hey Glogotha, is there a way to let the plugin look right in right-to-left pages? This is a great plugin and should be supported heavily, I only need to find a way of making it look right on Arabic blogs and other similar languages. Thanx.

@Dave – I query by URL because the native functionality of WordPress is that it doesn’t create a link if they don’t leave their URL. So I want to follow the integrity of WordPress.

@ouni – That’s a good idea and I understand why you want that, but it all takes time and that’s something I don’t have a lot of at the moment.

@velgn – sure, feel free to translate it – just be sure to link back to this one for the english version.

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Hi, Thanks for plugin. But it gives info about who has written website URL while posting comment. So, i think you coded it for url?? isn’t it? Can you improve it for email adresses too? thanks

Hello,

very nice plugin

but, if we use the url rewriting (for url like 2008/name-article), the plugin show the url like ?the-id.

It is possible to change that?

bye

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Hmm.. it really don’t work for me. I don’t even see it.

The plugin looks good so is the site..thanks for the information,have a nice day

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Hi there,

that seems to be a good plugin, but why is it trying to load the URL “/index.php?feed=rss” from my weblog (powered with s9y)?

Is it possible, that this plugin only works with WP-Weblogs because other weblogs don’t have their feeds at this special URL?

TIA
Papa Bodehase

Hi,

thank you for your plugin, I have translate into French, you can download it : http://xhark.fr.nf/le-blog/un-plugin-pour-agrandir-la-communautee-de-votre-blog-1301

or contact me

great plugin but got a few problems with it, it’s slow to load (in fact some of my posters didn’t notice until I told them about and they waited a minute or two for it to load).
Other problem is that I get an error for one of the posters:
Warning: attempt to assign property of non-object in (my rss.php address) on line 440.
Any ideas?

@Dingle – shouldn’t be too slow… That’s probably your host? You can see it in action here – is that too slow? I’m not sure what that other error is?

@Marek – Should work just fine with 2.6. There may be another plugin interfering?

I love your plugin!!! Well, but it seems it doesn’t work correctly on my blog and I don’t know, why???
Sometimes the last blog post of the commentators is shown but mostly it doesn’t appear, although they had commented a lot of times before. It would be great if you can help me…
Greetings from Germany, Ute

@Ute – It will try and pull the commentators last blog post from their RSS. It doesn’t likely work with ALL different blogging software. So depending on what blogging software the commentator is using it will or will not work.

@Sulcalibur – It DOES work with WP 2.7. That’s what we have here and it works just fine. You may have other code/plugins that are interfering?

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

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Don’t work for me, buuut, im found the solution for my problem just changed the follow lines:

In the comment-info-tip.js.php change

if (!defined(ABSPATH))
{
$directoryPath = dirname(__FILE__).’/';
define(ABSPATH, substr($directoryPath, 0, strpos($directoryPath, ‘/wp-content’) + 1));
}
require_once(ABSPATH . “wp-config.php”);

to

$wp_root = ‘../../..’;
require_once($wp_root.’/wp-config.php’);

In get-comment-info-tip.php change

if (!defined(ABSPATH))
{
$directoryPath = dirname(__FILE__).’/';
define(ABSPATH, substr($directoryPath, 0, strpos($directoryPath, ‘/wp-content’) + 1));
}
include_once(ABSPATH . “wp-config.php”);
include_once(ABSPATH . “wp-includes/rss.php’);

to

$wp_root = ‘../../..’;
include_once($wp_root.’/wp-config.php’);
include_once($wp_root.’/wp-includes/rss.php’);

Now its works fine

Also, very nice plugin, thank you!

im a beginner in programing and i would like to make touristic blog based on word press and that plugin may be good for it, but idont really know will i make it good is there anyone whou would help me if i will have a big problem ??

Cool plugin, will install on my blog too. thanks

We are always wanting new great plugins for comments. THANKS!

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