Chances are you’ve probably noticed a number of Feedburner feed count chicklets scattered all over the blogosphere proudly displaying blog feed counts. I’m sure many people look at this as a way to inflate their blogging ego, but I’ve always looked at this as a way to show visitors at a quick glance that your blog is liked. Recently the popular Aweber newsletter service released a similar widget to display the number of newsletter subscribers you have, and now it looks like the chicklet has gone mainstream.
With this same idea in mind, it looks like Planet Ozh has released the Liz Strauss comment counter WordPress plugin. This WordPress plugin was designed to display your blogs comment count proudly. I think this plugin is a great way to show that your blog has a lot of conversations.
Ozh lists the following features:
- Performance: the plugin generates a static image every time a comment is left (or an admin moderates one). The benefit is that, when showing the badge, nothing dynamic is generated on the fly by the webserver.
- Failover: if for some reason your server was not able to generate a static image (write permissions or whatever) the plugin falls back to generating the badge on the fly, so you always have something to show.
- Minimal overhead: state of the art code that loads only when needed, and the plugin adds a grand total of zero extra database query.
- Compatibility: the admin interface either runs as a widget (with no extra “Settings” page created) or as a traditional plugin.
- Flexibility: just like your Feedburner badge, except there’s more options!
- Neat interface: one click color presets, killer Farbtastic color picker, and cute FamFamFam icons
- Ready for translation: polyglots, a .pot file is included. If you happen to translate the plugin, be sure to send me your work so I can include it in the archive! (Please send your .mo and .po files to ozh at planetozh dot com)
- Fun: well yes, it’s just fun to show how many comments you have
So basically it is widget ready and you can pick a color to match your blog. You can download the plugin here. Enjoy!
Kyle Eslick
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14 feature in theme looks quite interesting but yet have problem on SEO with some theme of Wordpress. 
Nicen themes, good work :) 
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Thanks for releasing this version. 
As your site has a lot of widgets, so I think it will significantly reduce the server usage. 
or use small functions in the template and format with css, wothout a plugin: Code1 and Code2 with more features
Thanks for sharing the pretty icons and thanks for Frank’s adding on, I really like them!
this can really help me to my comment contest. thanks!
We’ve been thankful for all the benefits we’ve been reaping by using Keyword Luv. We do indeed “luv” this little WordPress plug in.
really like the idea of comment luv since it is a way to return the web back to being a collaboratives place. I think when you first put up your site you are excited and feel like your content will take over the world then you quickly realize that the only way to keep up there in search rankings is by building relationships with other webmasters.
Great small plugin Really useful
Thank for share
I might give this plugin a chance. It looks really cool so we will see what results I can achieve with it.
First of all: I think it`s kinda incredible that people make their blog nofollow. Off course, if you`re site is good enough it will draw people anyway, but you will get heaps of traffic if you give the people something for visiting – like a link. And the comments you get doesn`t have to have poor quality just because of this. I would know, I have dofollow and commentluv on all my sites. And this is why I need the comment counter as well! So thank you =)