Display comments you made elsewhere on your blog
Posted on January 29th, 2009 in Social media, Wordpress | 21 Comments »
BackType, as I’ve already explained in a previous post, is a comment aggregator. If you sign up, the service will track all the comments you make across the web.
BackType is infact a search engine. This means you don’t have to install any browser extensions or anything of the like to track your comments. The entire process is transparent and automated.
Using BackType’s API, I’ve created a wordpress plugin that lets you import your comments into your blog. On set intervals, (hourly, daily or weekly) the plugin will download your newest comments and add them to your database.
This is a great way to show your visitors what you’re doing on the web and find interesting. As an example, you can see my comments here.
In addition to the paginated listing of comments, a widget is also available for your sidebar. Lastly, you can set it up so that a digest of your latest comments is automatically posted either daily or weekly.
For more information and download instructions, go to the dedicated page: My Comments Elsewhere.
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21 Responses
This sounds very cool. Looking forward to giving it a try.
Wow! I always wanted to keep track of my comments on other blogs. So far I was either favorating the blogs or trying hard to remember. Thanks for creating a plugin. I will download and use it. I believe it works with WordPress 2.7 .
Great. I was searching for this since a few days
Good feature though to track your comments on other sites.I whats use in displaying them on your site.Its waste of space again right?
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Great find… I think this tool is going to be useful for me.
Great plugin, well done on my site.
Hello, I thought I would drop you a line and inform you that your page layout is really messed up on the Firefox browser. Seems to work OK in IE though. Anyhow keep up the good work.
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Thanks, this list of plugins is really usefull. Especially “My Comments Elsewhere” plugin.
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Nice list of plugins, tnx for the review!
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KeywordLuv is a pretty neat plugin.
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stimulating and informative, but would be suffering with something more on this topic?
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@DobMoornoro,
May I know why suffering?
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I’m using wordpress. Well I haven’t using it since after newyear because of being busy and now I’ve found a lot of nice programs in the net that makes me leave wordpress.
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Hey Guys, I have already mailed Christopher. Please make this work for Wordpress.com also. In meanwhile here is a shity implementation of the same widget. On wordpress.com add a RSS Widget and give the feed address as http://feeds.backtype.com/USERNAME . This looks really bad but now at least you have something.
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Thanks
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thanks, good post
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It’s my first time to hear about this application and based on what you had said I became interested with it so I guess I’ll give it a try…
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