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Give Commentators Points with CubePoints WordPress Plugin

Josh Budde — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:12 +0000

Are you in need of some more commentators or want to allow commentators to receive points for commenting to get something?

With the CubePoints WordPress plugin you can, CubePoints allows you to choose a certain amount of points for each comment posted by a certain commentator. You can offer premium content, allow readers to purchase merchandise or maybe even an advertisement for your blog with a certain amount of points.

When they post a comment the points set in the administration panel is added to that person’s comment account and if their comment is deleted, it automatically removes the points. You, as the administrator can even alter the points quickly and easily from administration!

If you want to display how many points a commentator has accumulated in the sidebar, you can use this code:

You can download and install this plugin from the WordPress Directory. It was just added on December 26th.

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Allow Readers to Recommend your Blog with WP-Email

Josh Budde — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:58 +0000

Do you want your Blog Readers to recommend or invite Friends to view your blog? The Plugin, WP-Email created by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan allows you to allow your readers to invite people to view your blog.

The plugin is very customizable, it lets you customize the email that gets send to the person the blog is being recommended to, along with being able to limit the number of words that gets sent from an article that is being recommended and more. You can find the other functions on the WP-Email documentation.

All emails that are sent, are logged into the WP-Admin interface and you view details right in the Dashboard area. It shows From, To, Date/Time Sent, IP/Host, Post Title (where the invite was sent from) and the Status of the Email.

If you are interested in downloading and installing this plugin, you can find it on the WordPress Plugins Repository and on Lester Chan’s Website.

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Announce Your Comment Policy with Comment License WordPress Plugin

Josh Budde — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:22 +0000

This guest post was written by Josh Budde of josh.buddes.net, where he writes about his life, technology and blogging. If you have WordPress knowledge and are interested in writing a post for WordPress Hacks, please contact us.

Its been a controversy in the blogosphere for awhile now about who owns comments, although I am not getting into this in big detail, but I wanted to point out that there is a plugin that lets you let people know that your comment maybe used by the owner of the blog with attribution to you (your name and link). A blog post, posted by Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection really got a conversation going about this.

I currently am using a plugin on my blog called Comment License which will let you tell your commentators that you have a policy for posting comments. Some have made it say that no spamming is allowed, no foul language and/or that the comment maybe used in attribution by the owner. You just have to download it, upload it to the plugin directory inside WordPress, activate it and find the Comment License page; you’ll have it up and running on your blog in no time!

I’ve been using this plugin for awhile now and it still displays my comment policy right above the Submit button. If you think this plugin would be useful for your blog, go out and get it either from the WordPress Plugin Repository or Alex King’s site.

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Easily Update Social Networks with the PingPressFM WordPress Plugin

Josh Budde — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:32 +0000

This guest post was written by Josh Budde, who maintains a blog about his interests, including podcasting, being a junior developer, and web guru. If you have webmaster or WordPress knowledge and are interested in writing a post for Hack WordPress, please contact us.

Ping.Fm is a cool service that allows you to essentially ping several different services at the same time. PingPressFM is a plugin that allows you to send a ping to Ping.Fm when you make a new blog post on your WordPress blog.

I use this plugin on my blog and I love using it because when I go to make the post, I don’t have to worry about having to either going to every website like Twitter, Jaiku or Pownce to make a post telling followers that you have a new blog post or even going to Ping.Fm, it automatically pings the Ping.Fm website and then posts to the services that are setup in Ping.Fm. The only downside to this is if you schedule a blog post, it will not ping those services… I have suggested to the owner of the plugin to make it still Ping when a scheduled post goes out.

Ping.Fm automatically updates your status message for Facebook, Jaiku, LinkedIn and Pownce; making a blog post for you on Bebo, Blogger, Hi5, LiveJournal and MySpace and along with blogging, Ping.Fm posts a Micro-Blog post on MySpace and Twitter. By using this plugin for your selfhosted wordpress blog, it will also update these services.

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