SOME RANDOM DUDE

To go along with the Comment Love program, I have tried to add a bit more incentive for commenting. Last week, I implemented the CommentLuv plugin. I must say, the whole thing took no time at all - it was quite a breeze. There are so many ideas and pieces of functionality that I would like to implement on this site, but when I do not even have enough time to write real articles, I have a hard time trying to bite off anything of that scale. Still, slowly but surely, I am trying to add pieces to increase participation.

There is going to be a special month of Comment Love coming up, so I hope this extra addition will help stir up conversation. blogging, commentluv, comments, love wordpress plugin

Once again, better late than never for the weekly links. The list is a little short this time around, but there is still plenty to click on. The next collection should be much more voluminous.

Enjoy the links.

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I have unique post coming up next week, so make sure to come back Monday morning. It will definitely be something different than the normal content on this blog - I hope it does not disappoint.

Enjoy the links.

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Through my random surfing, I ran across a really great idea for a Wordpress plugin that allows commenters who have a blog to have their most recent post linked to into their article. The plugin is called CommentLuv and it is worth a serious look for all you Wordpress bloggers.

Now, I know some of you may be seeing a similarity in the naming of this plugin to my Comment Love project. I, myself, am not going to start jumping to conclusions just because the name is similar. Frankly, even if the guy did get the name of the plugin from Comment Love project, I could frankly care less. The idea to me is much more important than the branding - and the idea is both unique and extremely beneficial. I applaud this project and I will definitely be implementing it here on Some Random Dude as an addition to the Comment Love donation-giving. So now you will be getting a little linkage to go along with that fuzzy feeling in your heart when you contribute to an article’s discussion.

I highly encourage my fellow bloggers to check out this plugin to possible add it to their blog to spread a little more love/luv across the internet.blog, blogging, comment love, commenters, commentluv, comments, heart, linkage, love, random surfing, wordpress wordpress plugin

This is the first Wordpress plugin I have ever made, let alone released for download, so please, be gentle. I needed a plugin for my blog to count the total comments for each month to determine each month’s Comment Love donation. I looked high and low for a plugin to do just that, but I was unable to find one. I then decided I might as well make it myself as it really was not much of a feat in the first place.

The plugin is very basic - the function takes in two parameters, the year and the month you want the comments from. If either fields are left blank, it will default to the current month.

If you want the current month’s comment total, all you need to do is call the function without any parameters.

<?php monthCommentCount(); ?>


If you want a specific month, just put in the year and the month in question like below:

<?php monthCommentCount(2006, 3)); ?>


The function prints the total number of comments - nothing more, nothing less. I may be making some additional plugins along this genre, so there could be additional downloads available. Until then, enjoy this particular plugin if it is of any use to you.

Download & Instructions

Download Month Comment Count Plugin

1. Right-click/Command-click on the link above and rename the extension from ‘phps’ to ‘php’.
2. Upload the file to the ‘plugins’ directory within your ‘wp-content’ directory.
3. Activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ section of your Wordpress admin area.
4. Use the code examples above as reference for use.
5. Show off how many more comments you get per month than me.

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