My Comments Elsewhere
Posted on January 29th, 2009 in Uncategorized 17 Comments »
Description
This plugin collects the comments you posted on other people’s websites and lets you display them on your own blog. For more info, read the announcement blog post.
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How does it work
The plugin depends on an external service to track your comments. Support for BackType and CoComment is available.
If you’re not yet using either of these services, I recommend you use BackType. Unlike CoComment, BackType does not require you to install a browser extension meaning the whole process is much more transparent and automated.
Usage Instructions
After installing the plugin, you’ll have to select your tracking service and enter your account details. Once you’re authenticated, you can execute the initial comments import. From then on, new comments will be downloaded once per day or once per week.
You can choose to display your comments in a widget, as a paginated listing (on a page), or as a daily/weekly digest post.
There’s several options available allowing you to change whether or not to open links in new windows, add an RSS feed, choose the number of comments per page, etc etc..
There’s also an option to edit the CSS, allowing you to style the comments page or widget as you see fit.
Example
You can see the comments I’ve made elsewhere right here on my blog.
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17 Responses
Wonderful plugin! I love anything automated and easy to use. Keep up the great work.
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Hi what is the API key I need to enter for Backtype? How do I get it?
Hi Agent 001,
You can find the API key at http://www.backtype.com/developers when you are logged in. It is under the Authentication heading.
Thanks Mike. I got the API Key Now.
Great plugin. There is however a bug somewhere. When I use this on a page, I can no longer have comments enabled for that page. The comments are turned on, but gets turned off by the plugin resulting in links for commenting but not field to comment in.
Looking forward to a fix for this.
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I have a question regarding making the comments available as a digest post:
I followed the instructions and set it up but now where do I check to see when the post will appear? there’s no box to schedule times.
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Any chance you’ll make this into a IntenseDebate plugin as well?
Hats off !
Great stuff.
Nice Plugin
Worked for Backtype – setup was quick & easy using sidebar widget
Thanks!
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I’m trying to figure out the “digest mode”. When will the digest be posted? Is there anyway to schedule it? I installed the plugin last week and I’m just waiting to see what the digest mode looks like when it posts.
I’ve had this installed for about 2 weeks and it appears that after the initial import it didn’t pull any more comments from Backtype after that.
I reset it just a couple minutes ago and will see if it doesn’t do anything again. What function is it using to pull new comments daily?
Also I had set it up to do the weekly digest, when does it do the digest? It didn’t do one after 2 weeks either, when I had it set to weekly.
Thanks for the assistance.