My Top Commentators WordPress Plugin

I am glad to release the third WordPress plugin by Daily Blog Tips. My Top Commentators is a plugin that allows a blogger to discover who are the most active commentators on his blog (via the WordPress Dashboard, so other people will not see this information). You can also use different time frames for this, so you can see the top commentators:

Today
Yesterday
Last 7 days
This month
Last month
This year
Last year

Secondly, you can also see all the comments left by a single person, and edit or delete them via the plugin interface.

my top commentators wordpress plugin

So, what are the possible uses for the plugin? Here are some ideas:

You could check your top commentators every month to write a post thanking them
You could see the most active people on your blog to link more often to their articles
You could see people that support your blog, and email them to propose joint ventures or ask for feedback

People that comment often on your blog are your most loyal readers, so I thought that it would be useful to know exactly who they are.

I would like to thank Pawan Agrawal from MaxBlogPress that coded the plugin specially for Daily Blog Tips. He has more outstanding plugins on his site so check it out.

Installation Guide:

Download the plugin here
Unzip the file
Upload the whole MyTopCommentators folder to your Plugins folder via FTP
Inside the Plugins section of your WordPress control panel activate the plugin
Under the Dashboard click on My Top Commentators, and use at will

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69 Responses to “My Top Commentators WordPress Plugin”

Rajaie AlKorani on June 11th, 2008 8:35 am

Nice work, the only problem is that people might start spamming the comments section to get a link to their blog.

Are you going to start using it on your blog?
Rajaie AlKorani on June 11th, 2008 8:36 am

*Just Noticed Something*
I think that it would be wise to blur out the commenter’s email in the screenshot. Some of them might not like their emails being show publicly.
Daniel Scocco on June 11th, 2008 8:37 am

Rajaie, I think this plugin is much safer then the “Top Commentators” one that people use on the sidebar.

I might do a post once in a while thanking my top commentators, but I won’t do it every month or so, so people will hardly be influenced by that to leave more comments I think.

With this plugin the owner remains in control.
Daniel Scocco on June 11th, 2008 8:38 am

Ops, doing that.
Rajaie AlKorani on June 11th, 2008 8:39 am

In that case, I think I should give it a try
SATISH on June 11th, 2008 8:50 am

oki..Satisfied.Giving it a try!

And I too have some good idea if plugins, but don’t know how to code it!
So, can you please advice me, where should I go with my ideas, to get a plugin constructed(coded) ?
Jacky Supit on June 11th, 2008 8:51 am

nice work.
*still can see those emails here on feed readers lol*
Daniel Scocco on June 11th, 2008 8:52 am

@Satish, you can try to talk with people that code plugins to see if they are willing to do it, or go to elance.com or rentacoder.com and hire someone for the job.
Sharon Hurley Hall on June 11th, 2008 9:04 am

I’ve been wanting something like this for ages, so I’ll be testing it out. In fact, I’ve already downloaded it.
Daniel Harrison on June 11th, 2008 9:11 am

You could definitely do with a page/link that links to all of the DBT plugins that are available. I couldn’t find the other 2!

Dan
Daniel Scocco on June 11th, 2008 9:25 am

@Daniel Haririson, will do.

@Jacky, needs some time for that to change .
Hussein on June 11th, 2008 9:35 am

Oops. This is what I’m looking for Downloaded! And installing… Thanks for this cool plugin.
SEO Genius on June 11th, 2008 9:58 am

That is a great plug in, i really wish i used wordpress templates now.

Wordpress seems to be evolving and becoming more and more useful, i might have to try some of their templates.

It is a great idea to thank the most loyal readers i do admit the email i received from the website thanking me for commenting is a very good way of keeping me and others as daily readers of the blog. That along with the good range of articles you currently have on here.

Keep it up Daniel.
Gary Jones :: BlueFur.com on June 11th, 2008 12:28 pm

Great plugin. I have been looking for one like this for awhile.
Assad on June 11th, 2008 1:23 pm

I agree with your point on utilizing this plugin is much safer than the “Top Commentators” one that people use on the sidebar. I often see spam comments by the commentators as their sick effort to attract more clicks.

Kudos to DailyBlogTips. I’ll have it installed later.
Keith Dsouza on June 11th, 2008 2:21 pm

Nice plugin I must say quite interesting from a statistical perspective
team ray on June 11th, 2008 2:36 pm

this is a good feature

the other top commentator plugin encourage spamming sometimes
PC on June 11th, 2008 2:48 pm

Great work. I think it is very useful.
Brian Auer on June 12th, 2008 1:24 am

A nice feature would be a widget or code to display the top commentators in a sidebar or something (just like the “other” plugin). I’ve been using that for some time now and I don’t find that my readers spam my blog to get in that list. In fact, some of my top commentators leave the lengthiest and most thoughtful comments.
Hussein on June 12th, 2008 5:00 am

I have now this plugin running on my dashboard. And I can say that it’s quite good.
Michael on June 12th, 2008 1:26 pm

This is a great idea, the top commentators widget does nothing more then encourage spam, but with this plugin you could email the people who comment the most to thank them for it.
Trent on June 12th, 2008 2:14 pm

This is the beauty of working with wordpress… the brilliance of other people can have a direct impact on how you grow your business to be more efficient and effective.
Missy from G34 Media on June 13th, 2008 9:42 pm

Hi, Daniel:
I have not downloaded a plugin in weeks, because i feel they are slowing my blog down. There are loads of good wp plugins, such as this, but how many is too many?

Can you write a post on this subject. I run several blogs, and my main blog (Groovy Vegetarian) has quite a few plugins. I would like to know at what point or quantity, should one cease to add more plugins?

Let me know. Thanxs!
Susan on June 14th, 2008 2:47 am

I think this is a great idea. I love the ‘dashboard’ idea.
Htoo Tay Zar on June 16th, 2008 7:42 am

I like this plug in but I also wanna show my top commentators on sidebar. How can I do?
Pras on June 16th, 2008 11:50 am

Good one. but, it could have been much better if there was an option to show the list on the sidebar. I don’t like to use a separate plugin for this.
Forumistan on June 16th, 2008 12:38 pm

Very nice. Commenting is very important in blogging. We should see the top commentators in the blog.
autworld on June 17th, 2008 1:11 pm

Great idea!
Zaheer on June 18th, 2008 6:48 pm

Very useful plugin. I liked the idea that only the admin can see this info through the Dashboard.
SEO writer on June 20th, 2008 11:04 am

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Blackhead Remover on June 20th, 2008 11:21 am

Downloaded and installed. A Different idea
rapmatix on June 20th, 2008 8:04 pm

I think it is very useful
Suta on June 23rd, 2008 10:53 am

After I recieved email from Easywordpress that was sent to me regularly, everyday I came to know about new plugins, I felt that I’m left behind by not using Wordpress as my blogging platform. Seeing that there are so many gadgets and plugins to use to promote and make life better.

But, I have decided it wouldn’t be for long now,
Jacques Seoman on July 7th, 2008 10:42 am

It definitely makes good sense to reward your most active participants with a bit of extra link love. I say 3 cheers for the top commentator plug in. If you’re spending the time on the blog it is nice to be rewarded for it in some form.
Zath on August 9th, 2008 3:55 pm

This sounds like a great way of finding out who is most active on your blog recently and reward them appropriately.

While we’re on commenting, is there a way of displaying a person’s total comment count after their name? In a forums post count kind of way?
website design on August 23rd, 2008 4:07 pm

great post. I will download your plugin and use it to my blogs. I find it very useful and I am very much interested. I hope i will be able to successfully install it though.
Amarnath on August 25th, 2008 3:56 am

It’s time blogger follows wordpress and provides one such plugin for blogger users
gossip on September 1st, 2008 5:55 am

The plugin is really good, esp for a popular blog e.g urs.
CMG Technologies on September 7th, 2008 3:25 am

I have seen this plugin in use at a lot of blogs, time to use it at mine :), thanks both of you.