Apr
19
I think most bloggers would agree that interaction with your visitors gives your blog a personal touch and helps to grow your community. With that in mind, I think it is a good idea to thank your readers for leaving comments via email but you and I both know that can be time consuming.
Well not anymore. I recently installed a new WordPress plugin developed by Justin Shattuck called Comment Relish.
Here are the details from his site:
Visitors love interaction, especially a personable approach at gaining their attention and spiking their interests. Increasing the overall readership of your blog revolves primarily around content, accessibility and presentation. In an attempt to gain return readers and possibly subscribers, I present Comment Relish.
What is it
Comment relish is a WordPress plugin developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before. The message dispatched to the user is defined within the plugin’s preferences. Numerous tags have been integrated to allow for information to be included in the message easily (I.E.: timestamp, author name, comment, ETC.).
So, you can now automate the process of sending a thank you to your visitors the first time they leave a comment.
It also gives you another opportunity to invite your reader to become a regular subscriber. I added a link to my RSS feed, a link to opt-in for an email subscription, an I tell them how to track additional comments.
If you are looking for a way to add a little interaction, check out Comment Relish.
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David,
Great Post … i’ll be implementing this ASAP!
Thanks for the tip
Darin
I gotta switch to WordPress ASAP!!
Thats a very good plugin. Im surprised something like this hasn’t been implemented into wordpress already
good find
Great plugin! I’ll be adding this this weekend…. Thanks!
Great idea for a plugin! I’ve added this to my to-do list. Thanks!
Glad you found it useful.
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Pure genious. Too bad I’m a Blogger user, not WordPress. I needed a free host where I could completely pretty much edit every aspect. I can’t use Google Adsense in a free WordPress blog, for example.
I love WordPress and everything it offers but I need a free all around host so I’m stuck with Blogger. Too bad because this looks like an awesome plug-in!
Cheers,
Tay
Nice, I need to use this. BTW, I wanted to say that I like your logo alot.
I highly recommend his plugin… I think it has really helped to break the ice with new commentors. I get replies to the automated message all the time and when that happens, it almost always turns into a conversation which sometimes leads to some interesting opportunities.
And thanks for the compliment on the new logo!
Awesome, awesome, awesome. Thanks for letting me know about this David, I’ll put it in use right away
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uploaded it yesterday, but when I enabled it, I got a code error message. When I have a bit more time I will have to figure it out. Great idea though…Hey do you have the url for the top commentator pluggin?
You can find the top commentator plugin here.
same thing here Adam, please let us know if you figure it out.
Hey Adam and egon… sorry to hear you had trouble with the plugin. If you want, you can shoot me an email about the error and I’ll try to help.
Sweet, I let you know how it goes with the the top commentator pluggin installation. However, I may need to do a template change if I keep having pluggin and upgrade problems with my current wordpress template. Might be just the excuse I need…have wanted a newer, wider template for some time.
The plugin is great, though some may argue that if you want interaction you shouldn’t send automated messages to your readers.
Anyway, one major problem with it is that on high traffic/high commented blogs it shows down every page a lot. I managed to fix this, and you can get the optimized version here: http://patchlog.com/wordpress/more-optimization-for-comment-relish-plugin/
I’ve found that the automated message works very well…
Thank you for stopping by and posting this update. I heard about your updated version of the plugin at the Authority Blogger forum yesterday and planned to post an update but haven’t had a chance yet. I’ll do that later today.
Thanks!
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