Comment analysis plugin

  • lambic

    (@lambic)


    21 years, 7 months ago

    I know there are some plugins that do this kind of stuff already, but I used this as a learning project to create my first plugin.
    I’ve created a plugin called comment_analysis.php which has various functions to report on comments. So far I have the following functions:
    comment_count()
    shows total comment count for whole blog
    comment_last($format)
    shows date and time of last comment
    comment_latest($count, $length)
    shows first $length chars of latest $count comments with comment_author_link and a link to the post
    comment_latest_post($count, $show_count)
    shows $count posts that have the latest comments, with optional count of comments
    comment_most($count, $show_count)
    shows $count posts that have the most comments, with optional count of comments.
    You can see it in action at http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog at the bottom of the right hand column.
    I’m not ready to release the code publically yet, but I’m interested in any feedback on the functions I’ve written, and any other functions you think the plugin should contain.

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  • Thread Starter lambic

    (@lambic)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    Added
    pingback_count
    trackback_count
    pingback_last
    trackback_last

    Thread Starter lambic

    (@lambic)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    ok, I’ve made the code available at
    http://www.lambic.co.uk/wp-plugins/comment_analysis.phps
    Download it, rename it to …/wp-content/plugins/content_analysis.php, activate it in the plugin manager, and use the functions in your template.
    There’s an example at the top of that file.
    I put ca_ in front of all the function names so there’s less chance of conflicts.
    I’ll register it with the various plugin databases rsn.

    Thread Starter lambic

    (@lambic)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    Added
    ca_commentor_latest
    ca_commentor_most

    Anonymous

    21 years, 7 months ago

    That’s one neat plugin! 🙂
    I wonder though if it’s possible to exclude yourself from the comment_latest and commentor_most functions?
    And also, instead of just having the commentor’s name and his/her total comments, could we have:

    Commentor – Total Comments
    Date of last comment
    Entry of last comment

    Thread Starter lambic

    (@lambic)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    ca_commentor_most and ca_commentor_latest already have an exclude parameter, which is a comma separated list of author names. I’ll add exclude parameters to the other functions when I get a minute.
    I’ll look into outputting that extra stuff too.

    Anonymous

    21 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks! 🙂

    Thread Starter lambic

    (@lambic)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve created a version of this plugin for WordPress 1.3 (alpha-4), as the way of identifying trackbacks and pingbacks is different.
    http://www.lambic.co.uk/wp-plugins/ now contains two files:
    comment_analysis.phps – the 1.2 version
    comment_analysis_1.3.phps – the 1.3 version
    If I make changes, I’ll probably do it in the 1.3 version first, then backport it when I get the time.

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