WordPress Plugins

So far I’ve only written one plugin for WordPress, Comment Analysis, which provides a suite of functions for displaying various statistics about the comments on your blog. Full details for it are below. When I get around to writing more plugins I’ll add them here.

Lorelle has suggested that plugin users should show their love by giving plugin authors money, the virtual equivalent of taking them out to dinner. This is a noble and appreciated sentiment, but I’m happy with just an occasional “Hey, thanks for doing this, you rock” comment or email. If you really feel the need to part with some of your money then it would make me really happy if you made a donation to the WWF or the Sierra Club.

Comment Analysis

This plugin contains a suite of functions which examine the comments on your blog. The plugin is now hosted in the wordpress.org repository, here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-analysis/

Installation

Download the appropriate version using the above link
Put it into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin ‘Plugins’ page.
Make use of the functions in your template (see examples below).

Function Reference

ca_comment_count()

Show total count of comments for your blog, excluding pingbacks and trackbacks.

ca_pingback_count()

Show total count of pingbacks for your blog.

ca_trackback_count()

Show total count of trackbacks for your blog.

ca_spam_count()

Show total count of comments marked as spam. (Version 2.1 only)

ca_comment_last ($format=”)

Show date of last comment. The optional parameter allows you to format the date using standard date formatting.

ca_pingback_last ($format=”)

Show date of last pingback. The optional parameter allows you to format the date using standard date formatting.

ca_trackback_last ($format=”)

Show date of last trackback. The optional parameter allows you to format the date using standard date formatting.

ca_commentor_latest ($count=10, $exclude=”, $before=’<li>’, $after=’</li>’)

Shows latest $count commentors, with links to their websites if provided. $exclude is a comma separated list of commentors not to include in the list. $before and $after define the tags which will be output at the start and end of each line.

ca_commentor_most ($count=10, $exclude=”, $before=’<li>’, $after=’</li>’, $before_count=’(‘, $after_count=’)')

Show the top $count commentors, with links. $exclude is a comma separated list of commentors not to include in the list. $before and $after define the tags which will be output at the start and end of each line. $before_count and $after_count define the text which will appear around the comment comment count.

ca_comment_latest ($count=10, $length=60, $before=’<li>’, $after=’</li>’, $linktext=’Go’)

Shows the first $length chars of the latest $count comments. $before and $after define the tags which will be output at the start and end of each line. $linktext defines the text of the link which takes the user to the full comment.

ca_comment_latest_posts ($count=10, $show_count=’yes’, $before=’<li>’, $after=’</li>’, $before_count=’(‘, $after_count=’)')

Show the latest $count posts with comments (with a count of comments if $show_count is not no. $before and $after define the tags which will be output at the start and end of each line. $before_count and $after_count define the text which will appear around the comment comment count.

ca_comment_most($count=10, $show_count=’yes’, $before=’<li>’, $after=’</li>’, $before_count=’(‘, $after_count=’)')

Show the top $count commented posts (with a count of comments if $show_count is not no. $before and $after define the tags which will be output at the start and end of each line. $before_count and $after_count define the text which will appear around the comment comment count.

ca_author_most ($count=10, $exclude=”, $before=’<li>’, $after=’</li>’, $before_count=’(‘, $after_count=’)')

Show the top $count authors on your blog (with a count of posts written). I realise this isn’t comment related, but someone asked for it and I was too lazy to write a new plugin for it. $before_count and $after_count define the text which will appear around the comment comment count.

Example

To add lots of comment data to your sidebar you could edit your sidebar.php and add the following code:
<ul> <li>Total comments: <?php ca_comment_count(); ?></li> <li>Total pingbacks: <?php ca_pingback_count(); ?></li> <li>Total trackbacks: <?php ca_trackback_count(); ?></li> <li>Last comment: <?php ca_comment_last(); ?></li> <li>Last pingback: <?php ca_pingback_last(); ?></li> <li>Last trackback: <?php ca_trackback_last(); ?></li> <li>Latest comments <ul><?php ca_comment_latest(10,23); ?></ul> </li> <li>Latest commented posts <ul><?php ca_comment_latest_posts(10); ?></ul> </li> <li>Most commented posts <ul><?php ca_comment_most(10); ?></ul> </li> </ul>

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Lorelle on February 1, 2007 at 10:53 pm said:

This is a neat idea and very versatile looking Plugin. One tiny recommendation. Could you make the first paragraph be ALL about the Plugin and what it does and move the compensation request lower. That will help immediately explain to folks what this does and all the possibilities they can do with it. Use a lot of words. You can then delete this.

Good luck with it!

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ad on February 2, 2007 at 4:18 am said:

Nice Plugin, Thanks.

The Download doesn’t work on FF2.0, Win, so i have to copy and paste the code in a new file.

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ad on February 8, 2007 at 9:27 am said:

I’ve got a community blog (apfelquak.de) and i’m looking for plugin similar like the function Top Commentors – but Top Authors. Something that’s showing the authors with the most postings.

Maybe you’ve got an idea?

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lambic on February 8, 2007 at 11:58 am said:

ad, I’ve added the function ca_author_most to this plugin for you.

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ad on February 8, 2007 at 2:49 pm said:

Wow, cool!

Thank you very much!

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ad on February 8, 2007 at 3:31 pm said:

Works fine!

http://www.apfelquak.de/

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Grant on February 28, 2007 at 9:16 pm said:

great plugin…

anyway to exclude certain commentors – like say the author/admin of the blog?

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lambic on February 28, 2007 at 9:19 pm said:

Grant, some of the functions have an exclude parameter which takes a comma separated list of authors to exclude.

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Vinod Ponmanadiyil on March 21, 2007 at 3:11 am said:

Thanks buddy!. I have used this plugin to create a ‘popular post’ option.

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ad on March 28, 2007 at 3:24 am said:

I’ve modified the Top Commentors section a little bit, because it didn’t work well.
Better use the email address for this, because some of the commentors don’t have an URL:

$comments=$wpdb->get_results(“SELECT comment_author_email
, comment_author_url
, comment_author
, COUNT(*) cnt
FROM $wpdb->comments
WHERE comment_approved = ’1′
AND comment_type NOT IN (‘pingback’,'trackback’)
GROUP BY comment_author_email, comment_author
ORDER BY 4 DESC”);

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Steve Wordpressguy on April 19, 2007 at 4:05 pm said:

Nice plugin, very versatile, just came in VERY handy!

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Davide Maggio on April 23, 2007 at 7:56 am said:

Hi, I tried to use Your plugin puttin’ the code in a text widget but it doesn’t work (as i tought). Could You suggest me something to make it work? I tried unsuccessfully EXEC-PHP. What to do?

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lambic on April 23, 2007 at 6:52 pm said:

I’ve never used widgets, so I can’t tell you. I am however planning on widgetizing it at some point in the future.

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Fepe on April 27, 2007 at 11:50 am said:

Great Plugin . Thanks

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Louis on May 17, 2007 at 2:50 pm said:

Ho do you do to avoid a [br/] between the name of the commentator and the count?

Thanks.

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Louis on May 17, 2007 at 3:12 pm said:

Hmmm. I think I understand that [li]…

But is it possible to write something beside the the count?

My main problem is that if I exclude nobody, I get people with a web site and the count UNDER their name, and people without a web sit with the count BESIDES their name. It’s not very beautiful to the eye. Is it possible to always put the count UNDER the name AND to add a text besides the comment.

Example:

John
(154 comments)

Thanks.

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lambic on May 17, 2007 at 3:14 pm said:

As you can see in my rightmost sidebar, all the names have the number of comments right next to them, so I’m not sure why you’re getting something different.

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Louis on May 17, 2007 at 4:41 pm said:

Hi,

I think it is because of my theme…

But that would be ok, as long as I would be able to add some texte besides each count and be able to “format” the thing so as people with no URL would appear the same as people with URL…

Thanks.

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Louis on May 17, 2007 at 7:29 pm said:

Would you be kind enough to show me what code I could add to be able to display the count and text e.g. John (453 comments) instead of John (453)

Thanks. Great plugin certainly.

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lambic on May 18, 2007 at 9:13 am said:

Louis, I’ve added $before_count and $after_count parameters to the functions which show counts after names. By default they are ( and ), but you can change them to whatever you want.

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Louis on May 18, 2007 at 11:46 am said:

Thank you very much!

Where exactly do I put this?

I tried:

function ca_commentor_most ($count=10, $exclude=”, $before=”, $after=”, $after_count=’commentaires’) {
global $wpdb, $comment;

$comments=$wpdb->get_results(“SELECT comment_author_email
, comment_author_url
, comment_author
, COUNT(*) cnt
FROM $wpdb->comments
WHERE comment_approved = ’1′
AND comment_type NOT IN (‘pingback’,'trackback’)
GROUP BY comment_author_email, comment_author
ORDER BY 4 DESC”);

$excludes=explode(‘,’, $exclude);

foreach($comments as $comment) {
if (!in_array($comment->comment_author, $excludes)) {
echo $before;
comment_author_link();
echo ‘(‘.$comment->cnt.’)’.$after;
if (++$ccount == $count) break;
}
}
}

but does not work… I’ll try to put the $after_count elsewhere, but I am not sure exactly where I need to put it. I don’t know much about code writing as you can see… Still learning

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Louis on May 18, 2007 at 11:56 am said:

Ok I’ve redownloaded the new code and I see the change you’ve made:

… $after=”, $before_count=’(‘, $after_count=’)')…

I tried to add text here

$after=”, $before_count=’(‘, $after_count=’text’)')

didn’t work

Tried this way

$after=”, $before_count=’(‘, $after_count=’text)’)

didn’t work either.

I think I should get some coding class soon… lol You must be laughing reading this

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Louis on May 18, 2007 at 12:30 pm said:

It works!! Thanks a lot! Looks great now!

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Hedi on June 6, 2007 at 8:26 pm said:

Very useful plugin, discovered it via Lorelle’s blog!

Thanks!

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nakliyat on July 1, 2007 at 10:35 am said:

But I couldn’t download

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lambic on July 1, 2007 at 12:47 pm said:

Why not?

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Website Design Bolton Manchester on July 25, 2007 at 6:28 am said:

Excellent plugin…!

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musnazdotnet on July 27, 2007 at 3:03 am said:

Excuse me, err… what’s the ‘top commentors’ code again? when i’m copiying all the codes below, theres no ‘top commentors’ included

Total comments:
Total pingbacks:
Total trackbacks:
Last comment:
Last pingback:
Last trackback:
Latest comments

Latest commented posts

Most commented posts

sorry… i’m really a newbie here

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lambic on July 27, 2007 at 9:37 am said:

ca_commentor_most ($count=10, $exclude=”, $before=’<li>’,$after=’</li>’,$before_count=’(‘,$after_count=’)’)

Show the top $count commentors, with links. $exclude is a comma separated list of commentors not to include in the list. $before and $after define the tags which will be output at the start and end of each line. $before_count and $after_count define the text which will appear around the comment comment count.

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evden eve nakliyat on August 1, 2007 at 3:15 pm said:

ı couldn t download how is it work

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lambic on August 1, 2007 at 3:40 pm said:

Why couldn’t you download it?

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