Introducing the Comment Info Tip Plugin
You asked for it - now you got it!
This WordPress plugin provides you and your commenter’s a bit of information on their posting stats.
How It Works
When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter. The tip will display 1 of 4 results:
- If the commenter has only posted once then it will say so in the tip (see number 1 in the legend below).
- If the commenter has posted more than once we will look up the last three posts they have commented in and display links to those posts. This allows you to see which type of posts this user is interested in and easily navigate to those posts (see number 2 in the legend below).
- If the commenter has posted more than once we will attempt to search their RSS feed and show an excerpt from their last post (see number 3 in the legend below).
- If it’s a pingback or trackback the tip will indicate so (see number 4 in the legend below).
DOWNLOAD THE PLUGIN HERE
* Please give it a shot and return here and tell us where you installed it. Let me know how it’s working for you and of course if you have suggestions or advice please let me know.
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May 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
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!
May 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Cool gimmick, but what about adding your addon to the official wordpress plugin download?
Would be easier to maintain for all users.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Wow… this is a fantastic plugin…. when I get home from work (leaving now) I will definitely be installing this!!!
May 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Golgotha, it’s great to see that you made the comment info feature a WP plugin! I’m Twittering it now as I type, oh and anyone who likes the plugin can digg it up here:
http://digg.com/programming/WordPress_Plugin_Comment_Info_Tip
May 6th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Nice! Thanks for the plugin - installing it ASAP
May 6th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Congrats on the plugin…I’m gonna have to install that!
May 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Love it! Keep up the good work.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Be sure to let me know if you have installed it. Since it’s new I want to make sure it’s working well.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Cool plugin.
Will install it in my blog too
May 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I’m really enjoying this plugin. I find myself visiting all your blogs more often now thanks to the excerpt it displays.
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May 8th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Left a comment earlier but think it may have ended up in Spam.
Has anyone seen an issue with the Recent Comments widget? This plugin causes the recent commenters to stop wrapping so screws up the page page alignment for me.
Is this a known issue? Is there a way to have it only operate on single post pages?
I’m on WP 2.5.1
May 8th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
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.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
OK, I’ll re-enable it so you can see it.
site is colinwalker.me.uk
May 8th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Hey Colin, I see what you are talking about.
In the comment-info-tip.css file you can try and remove the last line:
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.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Thanks.
That did stop the issue but the popup still falls off the right of the page if your recent comments are on th eright hand side.
Perhaps an option to see the flyout direction to either right or left in the next version or a detection to see if it will cause this and automatically switch.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
@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
May 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
hehehe - I like to be awkward
May 8th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
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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May 12th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I’m sorry but it doesn’t work for me, which may be due to the fact that I’m using WP-Supercache. Just wanted to let you know
May 13th, 2008 at 8:11 am
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?
May 13th, 2008 at 8:13 am
@Luke - sorry, I’m not sure why WP-Supercache would be a factor, but I’m sure that the plugin won’t work for everybody. I tried to create it in such a way that it would work for as many blogs as possible, but it’s hard to make something for ALL themes.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:51 am
@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.
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May 15th, 2008 at 12:05 am
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.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Weird. I just turned off every plugin then reactivated this one first before the others, and that seems to have made it work. I’m no php guru but am left wondering why the order in which plugins are activated should make a difference? Whatever’s going on, it’s now working… Hurrah! And it’s great! Thank you.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:48 am
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
May 15th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Hi, nice Plugin but wont work on my blog :/
I think it’s a .js conflict problem…
May 15th, 2008 at 3:09 am
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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May 15th, 2008 at 6:47 am
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
May 15th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Too bad. It seems that I use one of the themes for which this won’t work…
May 15th, 2008 at 7:52 am
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!!
May 15th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Huh… weird. The plugin works fine on your site with Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13… but when I try it on my site, it only worked on Firefox 2.0.0.14. Nothing shows up in Internet Explorer.
Must be a conflict with another plugin or my theme… Oh well.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
@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?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
It’s very simple, Plugin activated and with IE7 or FF2 nothing happens… :/
May 15th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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
May 15th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
@Marcelo - sure, just be sure to link back to here.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:24 am
@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.