Using Show Top Commentators Plugin?
March 8, 2008 – 12:24 pm
Update: This has been upgraded to version 1.07 as of 30th April 2008.
For those of you who run WordPress and use the Top Commentators plugin, you may want to update this with my modified version to protect from people forging their name and giving a different URL, ie. trying to hijack the list for their own purpose.
More information on my post at top commentators list hijack.
14 Responses to “Using Show Top Commentators Plugin?”
Hehe,
I read about this on a black-hat SEO forum I'm a member of the other day.
Thought long and hard about posting about it, but decided not to for fear of getting my ass kicked for "outing" someones trick
It really does work, too.
Nice work with the plugin.
Cheers
Stu
By Stu on Mar 9, 2008
Hey Stu, must admit, without reading a post on it elsewhere I'd have not really thought about it. Mind you when I'm getting multiple comments from people with less common names (eg. Ines and Chance on my other blog, knowing it wasn't them) then I'd have probably started to look into it a bit more.
By Sarah on Mar 9, 2008
I just get so many people who come and drop a single comment, then they're never to be seen again I can't work out who's who anyway….
I was really surprised when I tried this on one of my test blogs and it was just so damned easy.
You can say what you like about our black-hat friends, but they're certainly an ingenious bunch!
Tell me something Sarah, does your plugin show trackbacks in the recent comments list. Mine does, and it really gives me the irits, especially when they're sploggers.
By Stu on Mar 9, 2008
Stu, it's not my plugin originally, just modified one line, but it would do if trackbacks worked on this site. I appear to have broken them. I can modify it not to show trackbacks if you want, or drop me a copy of your plugin and I'll modify that one for you
By Sarah on Mar 9, 2008
Oops, I got confused. I actually meant my recent comments plugin.
I really appreciate the offer though Sarah. Thanks!
Slinks away feeling stupid…….
By Stu on Mar 10, 2008
Ahh yeah, confused myself too. Still, I know what you mean. I'll check on my recent comments plugin and see how easy that one is to modify (should just be an extra condition in the SQL statement pulling out the comments to not pull out pings or trackbacks).
By Sarah on Mar 11, 2008
That would be awesome Sarah, thanks!
Makes me realise how far I still have to go with my self-learning of PHP
By Stu on Mar 12, 2008
Stu, your PHP work from what I've seen has been good. PHP and MySQL are such vast languages, trust me I have far to go still too.
By Sarah on Mar 12, 2008
Stu, I've taken a look at the Recent Comments plugin that I run and it's actually doing what it should do, it doesn't display the trackbacks or pingbacks unless you tell it to. I've tested this too by changing the date of a trackback and the only way it displays is if I tick a box in the options say to display the trackbacks.
Not sure which plugin you use but I use this one and have the most up to date version.
By Sarah on Mar 12, 2008
Thanks Sarah, both for your kind words, and that plugin.
That worked a treat!
By Stu on Mar 13, 2008
No problem Stu, glad to know it's worked
By Sarah on Mar 13, 2008
Nice little plugin I think. If it incentivises people to enter into a dialogue, it gets my vote. Although you need the readers in the first place
By HB on Mar 14, 2008
Readers do help
By Sarah on Mar 17, 2008
Just thought I'd mention, this has been updated as I spotted another flaw. I urge you to upgrade this if you want a correct Top Commentators list
Download the updated plugin
By Sarah on Apr 30, 2008