Put WordPress in a Read-Only State with Code Freeze
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Read more...Daily Tip: Display Errors Nicely with the WordPress Admin Error Handler
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Read more...Add Up to 16 Buttons to Your WordPress Visual Editor
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Read more...Ned Dwyer On His New ThemePivot Service: Save Time and Money While You Customize Your WordPress Site
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Today we get to talk to Ned Dwyer, the mind behind ThemePivot, a super exciting theme customization service that gives your WordPress site the power of multiple developers working together. It’s a new kind of marketplace which makes it easy for people to make minor changes, or tweaks, to their website. 1. What inspired you to create ThemePivot? It was inspired by a couple of things actually. I run a…
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Most bloggers want comments on what they write, but sometimes it’s a struggle to get a conversation going.
The Most Commenting Visitors plugin may be able to help with that. It both gamifies your comments and rewards your commenters by displaying the visitors with the most comments in a widget. If the user has a URL, it links out to their URL.
Here’s a look at it in action.
Settings
This is an easy-to-use plugin that has a few basic settings in the widget itself. One of the nice aspects of this plugin is that it lets you set the start date for when to start counting the comments. This is good because you can, for example, restart the “contest” every month, putting new visitors on an even playing field with long-time visitors at the beginning of each month.
It also lets you exclude specific users by their email. This is nice because you wouldn’t want the site Admin, for example, to appear in the list. You can also eliminate a user who is trying to game the system by leaving many short but useless comments.
Here’s a look at the widget settings.
This is a simple but effective idea. People love to see their numbers go up. They love it even more when in competition with others. And they love getting links to their site. This simple idea does all of those things … and, oh yeah, it will get you more comments too.
Photo: Male Comment Icon from BigStock
The WordPress Experts – WPMU.org
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