Sunday, June 22, 2008

Top Commentators Widget for Blogger / Blogspot with Advanced Features

Blogger has always lacked a Top 'Commentators Widget' which would encourage the readers to leave useful comments on your blog. Here i have used a yahoo pipe to implement the same. Thanks to google system for providing me with a wonderful yahoo pipe.


This widget has some additional features unlike other 'Top Commentor Widgets'.This allows you to filter out the blog author's name from the top commentators list. You can filter out as many names as you want by using the filtering option in the widget installer(the filters should be separated by commas). So if you don't want to list 'Anonymous' in your top commentator list then just use it in the filter field. Another feature of this widget is that users can navigate to the commentator's profile or site by clicking on his name in the list.You can also set the number of Top commentators that you want to display.You can see a demo of the widget here. If you wish to install the Top commentators widget use any of the Widget installation buttons below:



1) Widget Based On Recent 500 Comments.This will judge the top commentators from the latest 500 comments to your blog.

2) Widget Based On Recent 5000 Comments.This will judge the top commentators from the latest 5000 comments to your blog.This widget is only needed if your blog has high density of comment.I mean if you have more than 500 comments on your blog you can use this one..

Note:-Install the second widget only and only if your blog has lots and lots of comments.Else you should opt for the first one..

Credits:-
1)The pipe for the first widget is inspired from Assess My Blog
2)The pipe for the first widget is inspired from complicated yahoo pipe by Google System

Please leave your opinions on the widget and help me in spreading this widget to the blogosphere.. Note: If you are reading this in a Feed Reader the widget installer wont be displayed properly.So visit the actual article on the site to install the widget.

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27 Comments:

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chinesealbumart said...

Wow.. This is great ! Good job !!

Aneesh said...

thanks.. it would be nice to see you using it in your blog..

Eric D. Burdo said...

How hard would it be to modify a copy of this widget to show the top authors for a team based blog?

I'd like something that does a list and/or cloud format of authors by post count.

Aneesh said...

yea.. it is possible.. a widget which lists the top authors..i think your top author is Jim Kelly with 813 posts.. hope i am right..

belajarseo said...

Thanks a lot for your help for my blog, I don't realize about the mistake. I am amazed looking your blogspot site and other blogger such as Amanda that using blogger.com as their blogging platform. I don't know much about useful widget for my site and always hope can migrate to wordpress. But I think after this I should carry on my blogspot site and getting own domaian name for it. Thanks again!

p/s: I thinks this dofollow comment box is great. I should apply for it too.

makla said...

thanx for nice widget :)

Aneesh said...

you are welcome!!

Free Blogger Templates said...

wow....actually surprised to see this plugin for blogger nice work.

Cidão said...

Nice widget. I'm using it!!!! :-)

otto said...

tnx

Thomas said...

Hi, is there a way to get rid of the numbers or customize it a little?

Aneesh said...

yea it is possible if you want to remove the left numbering.. delete the following 2 lines from the widget code..
document.write('<ol>');
and
document.write('</ol>');

If you want to remove the number of comments,then i would have to modify the yahoopipe used for this..

SomeAudioGuy said...

Great stuff!
I just installed on my blog.
Been having a tough time encouraging discussion, so any reward I can give will help.
Thanks!

C.l.i.c.H.e G.a.L said...

just install this.. thanks as it really help me to keep track of who actually was commenting on my blog the most

leviuqse said...

thanks for this one!!!

4ALL2ALL said...

A great widget. Thank a lot.

Leo said...

This widget doesn't work in my blog

Leo said...

where is my comments?

KCee said...

Thanks! Installation was a breeze. :)

24patrol said...

thanks for this, i've been looking for this. i'm now using it :)

LaTease "Teasas Tips" said...

I really wish I could use this plugin...however, it doesn't work for me...I wonder what's wrong?

Nymeth said...

Thank you so much, this is brilliant.

I just have a question: would there be any way for the calculations to be made using more than 5000 comments? It's that I checked and my blog is approaching 5500, and while that isn't a big difference at all it means the numbers will become less accurate as time passes and more comments come in.

Thanks!

:: p R i n c E s S _ N :: said...

i already add this..

EastCoastLife said...

Thanks for this cool widget. I have a problem.
Why can't I filter out my own name for the Top Commentator? :(

EastCoastLife said...

I put up your widget but it didn't filter out my own name. Why? :(

Danifer said...

Hi there. I did what you said, but when it appears on my blog, it doesn't list anyone, only my title and the credit for the plugin. Is there something I need to fix in Blogger settings? Please help, I would love to use this. Thanks!

Gabriel said...

I have made modified this widget to expand it to the last 10,000 comments, so I could keep a historic top commentators list.

You can find it here.

Are you the original author? Because I could never find who created it so I could thank him/her for having published the solution to my 'problems'.


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