3 Awesome WordPress Plugins for Comments

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Comments are a way for your visitors to express themselves.  Readers can often suggest things that will make a blog post better including resource links and spelling errors.  They may not always agree with you but it’s a great way to give people a voice and encourage them to visit blogs.  I will share some tools for WordPress to improve the experience of commenting.

Contest Every Monday! – why, what, how

Check out Nic’s awesome WordPress blog! FilmSnobbery.com

Blogs have been around since 2002 1993

Why people blog

WordPress Comment Plugins to Embrace Your Visitors

WordPress Thread Comment

Comment Approved Notifier

Gravatars

Example of unique blog aka Niche blog aka “Longtail” blog

My food porn

 Favorite recipe site: AllRecipes

Food blogs – Chefs, aspiring cooks, people who like to eat

It’s Knot Wood – entire blog is devoted to reviewing things that are made out of Faux wood

In fact…I came across it looking for pictures of IKEA curtians that had birch trees and then…saw there was a contest and then….won the contest!  and then….found out the maker of Sugarcoatdecals lived in Minneapolis and then…..had coffee with her about website ideas and then…you’re reading about her!

Isn’t the internet a great place to surf?

Google Analytics and Clicky for your blog is essential!

Did Wikileaks share too much?  Yes

How to install a WordPress pluginWhat is a WordPress plugin?

Why I support Open Source Software

Shout out to Drew on YouTube for providing me with a HD version of The Rachel Maddow Show

Meet my rats, Common (black hooded)  and Justice (beige hooded)

Ways to secure your WordPress install (admin username, database prefix, security plugin)

My experience with the BDPA enforcing gender roles in technology (“but you’re a girl”)

Monday Contest Prize, Question and Winner

Prize: 1 hour of website development

Question: Name one of the people who started WordPress

Winner: Matt Freemont