Wordpress Top Commentators Plugin

One reason I like Wordpress as much as I do is that there are a ton and a half of neat and useful plugins readily available. The plugins are usually easy to install and add a wide range of additional functions to your Wordpress driven blog.

Over the past few days I have added several Wordpress plugins to Article Discovery Politics. If you look in the right sidebar under Categories you will see one of them, the Top Commentators plugin, at work. This plugin encourages comments by listing the name of the commentator.

More importantly it rewards the commentators, if they wish, by providing a free link back to their blog or website. For now I have the plugin set for a 30 day reset so new commentators will have a better chance of coming in at the top of the list after a reset.

Your backlink will be from a fairly new blog, only 105 days old, that has just obtained an initial Google PR3 rank and, thanks to Maki’s Dosh Dosh Technorati experiment, is listed as number 79 in the Technorati Top Favorites rankings. Article Discovery Politics also has a Technorati ranking of 50,038 and an Alexa rank of 150,265 so is beginning to receive a bit of traffic.

I encourage you to put this new feature to work. Your comments are welcome.

All I ask is that you make a thoughtful, relevant comment. Comments like “that’s nice, or “cool” or “your nuts” will not escape the comment delete button. No problem if you make a comment that totally disagrees with the point made in the post.

This is a freedom of speech blog, although I would appreciate your keeping your comments civil in tone.

If you would like to add the plugin to your Wordpress blog you will find Top Commentators here. Now make an insightful comment and link it to your blog so you can see how it works.)

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