{"id":77868,"date":"2012-05-12T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=77868"},"modified":"2012-05-12T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:14:13","slug":"encourage-comments-by-displaying-visitors-who-leave-the-most-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/encourage-comments-by-displaying-visitors-who-leave-the-most-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Encourage Comments by Displaying Visitors Who Leave the Most Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[77868]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/encourage-comments-by-displaying-visitors-who-leave-the-most-comments\/comment-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77871\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77871\" title=\"comment-big\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/comment-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"645\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMost bloggers want comments on what they write, but sometimes it\u2019s a struggle to get a conversation going.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/most-commenting-visitors\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Most Commenting Visitors plugin<\/a> may be able to help with that. It both <strong>gamifies your comments and rewards your commenters<\/strong> by displaying the visitors with the most comments in a widget. If the user has a URL, it links out to their URL.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at it in action.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[77868]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/encourage-comments-by-displaying-visitors-who-leave-the-most-comments\/widget-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77873\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77873\" title=\"widget\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/widget.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"652\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>Settings<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is an easy-to-use plugin that has a few basic settings in the widget itself. One of the nice aspects of this plugin is that <strong>it lets you set the start date for when to start counting the comments<\/strong>. This is good because you can, for example, restart the \u201ccontest\u201d every month, putting new visitors on an even playing field with long-time visitors at the beginning of each month.<\/p>\n<p>It also<strong> lets you exclude specific users by their email<\/strong>. This is nice because you wouldn\u2019t want the site Admin, for example, to appear in the list. You can also eliminate a user who is trying to game the system by leaving many short but useless comments.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the widget settings.<\/p>\n<h2><a rel=\"lightbox[77868]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/encourage-comments-by-displaying-visitors-who-leave-the-most-comments\/settings-20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77874\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77874\" title=\"settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/settings2.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"652\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><strong>More Love, More Comments<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/encourage-comments-by-displaying-visitors-who-leave-the-most-comments\/settings-20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77874\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>This is a simple but effective idea. People love to see their numbers go up. They love it even more when in competition with others. And they love getting links to their site. This simple idea does all of those things \u2026 and, oh yeah, it will get you more comments too.<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-1629357\/stock-photo-male-comment-icon\" target=\"_blank\">Male Comment Icon<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plugin will increase comments by rewarding those who leave the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":77872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[264],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-77868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216230,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868\/revisions\/216230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77868"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=77868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}