Why I no longer use the Comment Luv plugin
I used to really enjoy the Comment Luv Wordpress plugin which adds a link to your most recent post when you comment on one of my blogs, but it has been broken for me on other sites for so so so long that I just can’t use it here anymore.
When I comment on other people’s blogs who are using Comment Luv, it always links to a post which is months old. When I comment as Try Handmade, the post it grabs is 4 months old. When I comment as Plain Jane Mom, the post it uses is also 4 months old. Clearly something changed in this plugin and/or it’s interaction with Feedburner feeds and/or something else weird last August, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to fix it.
Anyway, I’ve kept the plugin active for this long so that I could continue to give you lovely commenters some deep links back to your sites, but now I’m just going to settle for removing the ‘nofollow’ attribute on your blog link after a certain number of comments.
If anyone knows how to fix this issue I’ll very happily re-activate the plugin, but until then I hope you understand :)
I was having the same problem a few months ago and discovered if you register at commentluv’s site it fixes it. http://www.commentluv.com/ Kind of annoying, but it worked.
Unfortunately I tried that and it didn’t work. Plus it should be able to parse the latest post out of my feed without making me register somewhere…
I kind of wish there was something similar for Blogger, but I noticed that too: wither the post was an older one or sometimes it didn’t link at all.
There is a CommentLuv for Blogger. You just have to install JS-Kit first to use it. If you got to the CommentLuv web site, you can get step-by-step instructions on how to install it, plus a video you can watch. I’ve put it on my blog, and I use Blogger. So far I haven’t had any problems other than you have to let the page load completely or it won’t pick up your feed.
I just installed CommentLuv on my blog. At first, it was fetching the feed from FeedBurner, but it couldn’t find it. So I went back to CommentLuv, where I’m registered, and checked the box asking it to find my feed. That seems to work. So far, it’s fetching my most recent posts. Then again, my blog has only been active for three months, so it doesn’t have many four-month-old posts to fetch!
I’ve noticed it fetching old blog posts on blogs that use this plugin and I won’t be registering so it will get newer ones. And that sounds like it doesn’t always work anyway. Very annoying.
When I leave a comment here, or on other blogs, it doesn’t grab comments…ever. Oh well.
I haven’t noticed any problems with CommentLuv. I have CommentLuv installed on 10 blogs and haven’t had a problem. I wonder why it works for me and not others? Maybe I’m just not paying close enough attention?
It will probably help your other links be more valuable, don’t worry. :)
I haven’t had any problems with comment luv on any of our sites or the sites we use. I wonder though if, like Shelly said, I’m just not paying attention. Thanks for the heads up
I have noticed that lately most of the time the comment luv plugin is not working at blogs that say they have it installed. I figured I was doing something wrong.
I can’t even get it to work on WP 2.7, with my regular or a stripped-down test blog.
Came across this post after googling “comment luv not working”. CommentLuv USED to work on my blog. First it didn’t work after I upgraded it, then I received alot of help from commenters, and got it working again. Yesterday I upgraded it again and now it’s not working again, so I upgraded wordpress and it’s still not working. It’s driving me nuts. lol. I think if I EVER get it working again I will NEVER update it, just leave it as is….
So…what is this awesome plugin you’re using now that show’s the person’s site? LOVE. NEED.
I futzed around in the PHP — sorry it isn’t a plugin, but glad you like it!
I also like the screen shots in the comments. Would you be willing to share that or do you plan to create/distribute the code? Maybe it could be an alternative to commentluv… screenshotluv, :).
Thanks Ruby,
I’m not a plugin developer, but I’m glad you like the effect. I also use it on tryhandmade.com.
Erika
Erika, i also love your “futzed” comments. This would make an amazing plug in!
by the way my CommentLuv has never worked on any of my blogs. :(
I put commentluv on my blog about two weeks ago, but I didn’t like the interface with blogger and I especially didn’t like the fact that it deactivated all the links on the pre-existing comments. I actually think the fact that it gives readers the impression that they must register with comment luv in order to leave a post with a link could deter comments. I wish they had some sort of explanation that you could manually enter your website info. Between those three issues, I decided to remove it.
Commentluv works on my site, but the hyperlinks aren’t working. The words are there, but no link, what gives? I have wordpress 2.7 working on a joomla site.
Interesting. I’ve been seeing this more and more on blogs, but am not using it myself at this point. I’m still working on tweaking my template, which is hair-pulling enough. :)