Advanced SEO Super Comments Plugin

Comment on SEO Super Comments WordPress Plugin by SEO Dave.

I was working on the SEO Super Comments code yesterday, added a “Reply to Comment” link so when visitors find their way to a Stallion SEO Super Comments page they can click the “Reply to Comment” link and it will take them to the comment form on the relevant post and when they write the comment it will thread below the comment (on the relevant post) they found.

I’ve added the code to this site, if you plan to respond to this comment go to the SEO Super Comments pages from the link below and you’ll see the “Reply to Comment” link, click it and you’ll come back here ready to add a response.

Rating Comments: there are plugins that can rate comments, I use one on sites like http://www.conspiracy-theories-hoax.com/john-f-kennedy-assassination-conspiracy.html, the plugins called “Comment Rating”

Note: the author has added a semi-hidden backlink to their site (I removed it from the plugin I use and reported the plugin to WordPress: hiding links not allowed). There’s the ability to semi-hide comments (you have to click a link to open the comment fully) if enough visitors mark it down. When a comment is marked down enough to be semi-hidden the plugin adds a link back to the authors site saying where you can get the plugin from (bit cheeky to say the least!).

Two ways to get by this, remove it from the code or set comments are semi-hidden only when there’s say 1,000 negative vote (will never happen) or you could turn off negative votes.

To edit, load the file comment-rating.php in a text editor and replace (found around line 400):

         $content .= ' <a href="http://wealthynetizen.com/wordpress-plugin-comment-rating/" title="'
               .__('Rated by other readers', 'ckrating').'">'
               .__('comment rating','ckrating').'</a>.';

with

$content .= ' ' .__('', 'ckrating').' ' .__('comment rating','ckrating').'.';

You can then have the hidden links feature without adding a backlink to the authors site! The defaults for semi-hidden etc… are really low, I set them much higher (you don’t want a comment semi-hidden because of only 5 negative votes). I also don’t like the semi-hidden feature, I want the comments to be easily seen/read, this adds another layer for visitors to read them.

The default gravatar issue with Stallion is on the list of things to fix.

It is possible to have numbered comments, would be a nice feature to add, will look into it.

I think you’d have to have all commenter’s register to have a profile page for commenter’s? I’d avoid this sort of thing as it’s going to open your site up to abuse if you allow website links to show (like you get with most forum like profiles). I have a few forums and you get thousands of profile link spammers just signing up for the backlinks from their profile pages!

I’ll bet there are plugins for top commenter’s sort of features. Vaguely recall seeing something like that as a widget.

Like you I’d like to integrate more with Facebook and probably Google +1 when it goes fully live, BUT it means you loose your commenter’s content (not on our sites) which means potentially less traffic from search engines as you loose the SEO Super Comments content.

I enjoy answering comments on my SEO sites, but until I added the SEO Super Comments plugin I was always torn between writing a response as a comment and creating a new post and referring to it. With a comment it’s less formal, you can waffle on about all sorts of stuff, but with a post ideally you’d be more formal and more concise (comments are easier to write). Since adding the Stallion SEO Super Comments plugin with the Hikari Comment title plugin (also built into Stallion) combination it’s rare that I’ll write a new post to answer a comment because I know it’s going to be full indexed by Google etc… and have most of the SEO features Stallion offers to a full post. Encourages me to write more comments because I know they’ll generate more traffic in their own right (biggest problem is thinking up relevant and unique comment titles :-)).

David