Archive for February 6th, 2008
Top Commentators on this Blog
I have always wanted to include “Top Commentators” feature on my blog since the day I came to know about the plugin, but was feeling handicapped as my blog is hosted on wordpress.com and neither this feature is available as default at wordpress.com nor they allow custom plugins to be installed. So that was the end of my desire.
But being handicapped is not a good reason for not doing something that is desired. Where there is will, there is a way. And today I finally decided that I would have “Top Commentators” on my blog, even if it requires me to do it manually. Following this decision I browsed through all 27 comment pages copying 500+ comments to MS-Excel, removing own comments, pingbacks and unapproved comments to come up with 250+ comments by various readers and visitors out of which Top Seven are displayed on the sidebar.
So “Top Commentators” is here on this blog with the only difference that you may not see it updated immediately on commenting, but I intend to update it frequently and all comments since inception of this blog are counted. I don’t intend to reset the counter to zero until 2009 or wordpress.com adding “Top Commentators” feature, whatever comes earlier.
