Comments on: Promote Your Content with the Greet Box WordPress Plugin

By: valeri

valeri — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:13:57 +0000

This greet box plugin sounds like a great tool!

By: Donace

Donace — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:30:48 +0000

@ Thaya I have no ‘real’ gripes with he plugin

Though I feel it would be possible to use php as an alternative;

The postive being it is smaller in size and faster as well as more versatile (in my opinion).

The negatives of this as highlighted was that the messages would be cached. (vis supercache)

Though as I mentioned in reply to a comment an easy ‘exclusion’ line would prevent it being cached by Supercache plugins etc. and you could further with some trickery cache the ‘result’ of messages via domain names to speed things up (ie digg messages cached etc).

Saying this the beauty of it is many varieties of this type of plugin can exist and probably do.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:58:19 +0000

@Donace
I intentionally coded WP Greet Box to be javascript based from the beginning. Actually, there is both a benefit and a downside for WP Greet Box being javascript based. The downside as you said is that it requires the user to have javascript enabled. The upside is that it works with cache plugins. I’d say that almost everybody nowadays browses with javascript on, so there’s no need to discriminate on javascript . Also a lot of times my host gets killed from heavy traffic so I need some sort of caching solution for my blog.

By: Donace

Donace — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:39:13 +0000

it is indeed a very sweet plugin; the only ‘downside’ I hit was that it was JS based.

I being slightly bored whipped up a pure php based script for it (http://thenexus.tk/hello-visitor-the-quest-to-greet/). However it is not pretty code or even ‘clean’ :p.

Greet box IS great though and very useful.

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By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:48:52 +0000

Thank you for reviewing my plugin Kyle! Exposure to this audience really helps my downloads!

@Jason,

WP Greet Box 4.4 supports 24 referrers plus wildcard in domains. Nevertheless, both plugins have pretty much the same functionality. I would say try both to see which one works better for you.

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:16:10 +0000

How does this compare with the Referrer Detector wordpress plugin. It seems that most of the features are duplicated. Referrer Detector supports a lot more sources, plus it has stats. You can check it out here: http://www.phoenixheart.net/

I’ve been using it for a while and really like it.

By: rizzy

rizzy — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:59:16 +0000

OMG this is absolutely great plugin. I will implement it once I can find a darn theme for my new blog.
Regards: rizzy
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By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:23:35 +0000

I’ve been using the Greetbox for a while now and it’s been amazing. The options interface is also the best of any other plugin I’ve seen.