Comments on: Intelligent Design and Stickiness

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:22:08 +0000

Those sound like nifty plugins. I think I’ll give them a shot to see how they effect my site. Who knows. Maybe it will help with my popularity. :D

By: Matthew Loh

Matthew Loh — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:01:23 +0000

Stumbled across this site while searching for plugins for my site. Had already activated Subscribe to Comments (and I agree with you, this is a MUST-HAVE for all blogs) and am waiting to see if Landing Sites will prove useful.

By: Jeremy L. Gaddis

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:42:53 +0000

Thanks for the pointers to Subscribe to Comments and Popularity Contest. I hadn’t heard of either of them before, but will be installing them shortly.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:49:49 +0000

I don’t see it.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:12:58 +0000

I think WP2.2 hosed my Subscribe to Comments plugin. Can any one verify?

By: Kobra

Kobra — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:59:35 +0000

This “Subscribe to Comments” feature is a remarkable idea. I guess it’d be really useful.

By: Sourav Sharma

Sourav Sharma — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:44:06 +0000

Its really a good post,

I will surely give a look at these plugins…

great work..

By: Connie Bensen

Connie Bensen — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:25:07 +0000

Is the Share This feature at the end of each post a Word Press plug in too? If not, would you share your source? Thanks!

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:49:36 +0000

I was using Landing Sites for quite some time but kept getting feedback that it wasn’t working with Google Reader. People visiting through Google Reader would see, “We saw you came from Google, you might like…” but the recommendations were blank because, of course, through Google Reader no search terms were input.

I’ve followed the plugin for awhile, tried some fixes, and none worked. So it’s currently disabled on my blog.

I’m a big fan of Popularity Contest, although you can just as easily list the top posts in the sidebar that you want to draw people’s attention to.

Subscribe to Comments is a MUST.

By: krew

krew — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:33 +0000

Thanks for this list, there’s three plugins from this list that will fit really well on my site.

Keep up the good work!

By: Umar

Umar — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:38:14 +0000

great info… i have decided to take blogging more seriously and these tips and tricks to get more traffic is certainly going to help.

By: Shopaholic

Shopaholic — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:46:45 +0000

I love the “subscribe to comments” plugin. I use it together with another plugin called “Comment Email Responder”, so when I reply to comments people get an email with my reply. This helps drag them back to my blog. Plugin here: http://www.u-g-h.com/index.php/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-plugin-comment-email-responder/

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:51:50 +0000

Thanks for the information. Else I would never know such good plugins exist. I prefer the “subscribe to this comment” to the rest. It gives me a greater sense of participation from the reader point of view.

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:58:29 +0000

Landing Sites sounds really interesting. I plan on redesigning my blog very soon and will probably use a few of these from your list. Thanks for sharing!

By: hacker not cracker

hacker not cracker — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:47:54 +0000

I love that In Series plugin! I will definitely use it. Lately, I’ve been trying to write series and its kind of difficult when I have to manually change the TOC on each post. Thanks!

By: David Airey :: Creative Design ::

David Airey :: Creative Design :: — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:52:02 +0000

How come you don’t use the popularity contest plugin here?

I was wondering if I should use it, but am curious as to why you don’t.

A similar one I have is the ‘most commented’ plugin that shows all your posts in order of the number of comments. The problem is, I miss quite a lot out because I don’t want a huge list. To slightly counter that I’ve also created a page for ‘featured articles’.

By: dandellion

dandellion — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:03:19 +0000

Thanks for the great list of choices. I would also add simple tagging plugin http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/simple-tagging-plugin/ which list related posts at the end of each article. It is nice way to lead your readers further into their interest.

By: Derrich

Derrich — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:57:41 +0000

I use the Subscribe To Comments plugin. I personally think it’s the best in the list, although I haven’t experimented with In Series yet. Sounds pretty cool.

By: JuliaxxX

JuliaxxX — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:14:43 +0000

Kevin,
I would use the plugin “Subscribe to Comments” that way people return back when your post gets updated. Like the one technosailor uses , if you leave the checkmark “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” then you will get an email right after my post gets approved. That means you come back :) to read my comment :)

Sincerely,
–JuliaxXx
http://www.bontb.com

By: David Nick

David Nick — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:07:21 +0000

Most sites are not very sticky though. They may have moments of brilliance when a high profile link comes in, or a story gets Dugg and then – poof! The visitors disappear.

guilty as charged ;)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:15:28 +0000

The Landing Sites plugin looks fantastic. I’ve been thinking of ways to give people a bit more context and direction when the come straight to individual posts from search engines and this looks like it will fit the bill perfectly.

Thanks for posting it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:07:24 +0000

Which do you think is better, using something like Popularity Contest, or using one of the several “Rate this Post” plugins? Allowing the readers to vote on posts does bring them into the conversation…

Kevin
http://technogeek.org/

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:07:00 +0000

Hmmm. Am planning to move to wordpress soon. The landing sites plugin seems to be very interesting. You should really do a part two and make it a series.

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:53:35 +0000

I totally agree that subscribing to comments is one of the most important things. I myself wrote and shared that in one of my blog posts (Article found hear).

I also agree with your other points and have bookmarked them to add them to my blog, when I get some spare time and finish up a clients job.

Thanks for them

By: Lists

Lists — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:43:34 +0000

Nice list of plugins – though I think a “email me posts regularly” plugin should round up the list and make it five plugins.

By: Christopher Luna

Christopher Luna — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:36:33 +0000

Good info. I think the popular Related Post is another one to get readers to other post that may interest them inside your blog.

By: ScottS

ScottS — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:15:35 +0000

Great Post. At least three of these plug-ins should be valuable for my site. I’m testing the “Subscribe to Comments” now. Thanks for the info.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:26:06 +0000

Wow! There are some terrific tools and ideas there. Thanks for a great post.

By: Spamboy

Spamboy — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:16:54 +0000

The “In Series” plugin is intriguing, since I had to trick WordPress into doing the same thing on my site. Thanks for the heads-up on that and the other plugins!

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:14:53 +0000

Thanks for this. I’m always looking for new pluggins for my blog. :)