Virgolamobile

Mission:
Increase comments rate from who uses to read the blog using a feed reader.

Features:
This plugin will add a comment form after the_content of the feed.

Overview:
Lot of people used to read their favourite blogs just reading them through a RSS reader, so they “forget” to browse to the original website and, maybe, write a comment about the last post.
So I decided to write this plugin that will add a comment form after the content of the feed.

This is just a very young release to test if this plugin can really increase comment rate in a blog. On the next future I will do a total refactoring with a fine admin option page, switch between excerpt or full-content, optimization for different kind of feed reader (web-app, client side, etc..).
To do so I need feedback from you so, please, leave a comment on this page with opinion, suggestions, bug report, links to your wordpress installation using this plugin and whatever you want.

Changelog:

• July 12, 2006: 0.2 - first release
• July 13, 2006: 0.3 - Some feed readers parses contents cutting form elements. Now it show just a link with an inline Javascript that load the form using DHTML. If the feed reader block JS, it simply link to the comment page of the post.

Tar.gz package contains:

• blsfeedcomments.php - the plugin
• blsfeedcomments_template.php - feed comments template

Installation:
Just upload blsfeedcomments.php and blsfeedcomments_template.php in your plugins directory ( /wp-content/plugins/ ) and activate the plugin.

Upgrade:

1. Deactivate the plugin
2. Just upload blsfeedcomments.php and blsfeedcomments_template.php in your plugins directory ( /wp-content/plugins/ ) overwirting old files.
3. Activate again the plugin.

Compatibility:

• WP 1.5+ to be tested
• WP 2.0+

Demo link:
http://www.virgolamobile.net/feed/

ToDo List

1. Better xhtml output, this is only a draft plugin, just to test if adding form in feeds will increase comments in my blog.
2. Admin Panel options to have full control of the plugin.
3. Optimization for different kind of feed readers (wep-app, client side, etc..)
4. Drink a beer.

Last Version - 0.3

http://www.virgolamobile.net;/wip/wp-plugins/blsfeedcomments-0.3.tar.gz;Bls Feeds with Comments 0.3;

Old versions (for nostalgics)

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