Have you ever wanted to share your favorite comments on the front page of your site? I’m not talking about the most recent comments, or the most frequent contributors, but the best comments (most funny, most thoughtful, most appropriate, most rash – whatever your criteria may be). Now you can.
Best-Of Comments allows anyone with the ability to edit comments to mark a comment as “featured” and then featured comments will be randomly selected and displayed anywhere you choose to place the php call to featured_comments(). You can select how comments are displayed, how many to display, and how much of a comment to display (if comments are longer than the specified word length they contain a link back to the original comment). In the future you will have the ability to limit how far in the past to look for featured comments.
Latest Version 1.2 (December 15, 2009)
Discovered a function call that allowed other plugins which alter the content to possibly interfere with the display of featured comments.
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Hi, I have installed your plug-in on my wp-blog 2.8.4, but I have some problem to mark the featured comments:
On comment edit page, it says:
This is currently a featured comment:
*Feature this comment *Do not feature this comment
But no matter what I choose among these 2 options, and click update comments, nothing happens, and the PHP call featured_comments() or best_of_comments() shows no comments at all.
Could you tell me which version of the plugin you are using? Also, when you try to select “Feature this comment” does it look like the radio button is filled in?
As for the PHP calls – featured_comments does not work – that was a remnant of an earlier version of the documentation. you should only be using best_of_comments but of course it won’t show anything if the “feature this comment” option is not being saved. Let’s see if we can get that working and then see if a problem remains.
Thanks for the reply. I installed your plugin version 1.0 on my wordpress blog 2.8.4
When I edit comment, both of the radio boxes are not filled in, but always display the words ‘This is currently a featured comment:’ above these radio boxes. No matter what I choose among these two options and update the comment, the next time I visit this comment edit page, non of the two radio boxes is filled in. So I guess there is a problem saving your featured mark and I don’t know how to solve.
About the PHP call, I have figured out best_of_comments is the right one to use. Because I changed your plugin settings so that when there is no featured comments, will say ‘No Featured Comments’ in the sidebar, and this works fine.
I do like your plugin a lot, but just in trouble to mark the ‘featured’ comments…
The only thing that I can think might be affecting this is a variable that I used which I didn’t really need. I have removed that from the code in version 1.1 (which I just released) so I would recommend upgrading the plugin and see if that fixes your problem.
Hi!
Works fine for me but I find that will be more useful if the plugin will could show the best comment of the post.
If there’s no comment select of the post, no show any, if there’s some comment select show them.
^^ Regards and thanks for that plugin!
The plugin is not designed to do that right now, but I like that idea for a coming version. If you can’t wait for that there is another plugin that does that called Highlight Comments (or something like that).
I agree, I’d also like to use feature comments relative to a post rather than the whole blog. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
I was looking for something like this. But can you tell me whether I can make the best of comments display a page created by me?
Thanks for the plug-in and your assistance. FYI I am using the latest WordPress 2.9.1
I was looking for such a plug-in. Could you please let me know how to display best-of-comments in a separate page that I would create for my blog.
If you are talking about a regular Wordpress Page there is not currently a way to display the best-of-comments. However, that’s a good idea and I can make a shortcode in the next version that would allow you to do that. In that case you would create a page and in the body of the page you would write [shortcode] (replacing “shortcode” with whatever I decide to name it).
Nagarajan: You can do it with “Exec-PHP” plugin. But shortcode would be very nice.
BTW. Thank you David for amazing plugin!
Hi Tomek, thanks. I have installed Exec-PHP but I do not know how to or what code to place between so that I can display the ‘best-of comments’in a newly created WP page. I am a novice in this and any help would be appreciated.
Here u go: http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1608/codes.png
Just paste this code to post/page.
Thanks Tomek, but is not working.
Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I am talking about Wordpress Page. I look forward to the next version with such feature. Many thanks for this plugin.