Blogroll plugin for trusted commenters on your Site

I wanted something like a simplified blogroll that shows up in the sidebar, but only for the commenters of the current Site. and only if they are trusted.

This currently, is not possible, using Textpattern's native tags, as Mary also confirmed. Using article_custom to output the blog_roll like this:

<li><txp:article_custom form="mrs_blogroll_comments_articles" pgonly="0" sort="comments_count desc" status="4" time="any" /></li>

with the article_form content:

<txp:comments form=“mrs_blogroll_comments” />

and this comment_form content:

<p>This is a test form, in order to display a blogroll.</p><p class="small">— <txp:comment_name link="1" /></p>

will not give us what we want. The same goes with txp's recent_comments tag and wet_recent_comments. What I needed was a uniquie domin, for each commenter.

mrs_comment_roll was born. This will make sure, that:

  1. No commenter domain get's displayed multiple times in the blogroll.
  2. Only trusted commenters (The ones, that are set to display) are part of the blogroll list.

This can be used either in a form or pagetemplate and also has an option, to display the commenters domain, instead of their names as linktext.

Here is a basic Tag Usage Example, to get you started.

Let's say I wanted to display a Linkroll with 6 (unique in the sense of domain names ) commenters, split in two columns, displaying their domains, instead of their names as linktext and sorted by comment loyalty ( with posted desc as secondary sort priority ), then I could do something like that:

<txp:mrs_comment_roll domain="1" class="roll_one" modus="1" limit="3" /><txp:mrs_comment_roll domain="1" class="roll_two" modus="1" limit="6" offset="3" />

Here is another example

Let's assume, I don't care much about comment loyalty and need a ( chronological ) posted desc primary sorting priority order. And display 6 total unique list Items with the domains as links, and the commenter's names as linktext Then, I could use it like that:

<txp:mrs_comment_roll domain="0" class="roll" modus="0" limit="6" />

Here's an example with the third modus, which could be usefull for community based Sites

Now, I want to display a list with Unique names ( That belong to unique email addresses ) and give commenter loyalty priority, while still allowing multiple domains to be linked too, and limit to 10 total Items. Then I would do something like this:

<txp:mrs_comment_roll domain="0" class="roll_names" modus="3" limit="10" order="loyal" labeltag="h4" label="Most loyal Visitors on this Site "/>

Also available is an option (still experimental ), that displays the favicon of each domain right next to each corresponding domain. CAUTION: This is hotlinking ( allthough at minimal fileSize, but not 100% ok., from an ethical point of view ).

You can download it from here.

Simple Blogroll plugin for trusted Commenters