In a way, comments define blogging and the whole web 2.0 “movement”. From a personal perspective they represented my first victories in blogging. As a beginner blogger, each new comment I received was like a little thumbs up for my amateurish efforts.
So it’s fair to say that I have a soft spot for comments — although my blog tends to get quite a few these days, I still appreciate the input of my readers as much as I ever did and reply to the vast majority of them.
Originally developed for WPMU.org, the very popular Comments Plus plugin allows your readers to choose to comment on your site via Facebook, Twitter, Google or WordPress. Our developers have been busy improving the plugin and we’ve just released a major update.
Comments Plus is now easier to use
We’ve built in a comprehensive contextual help menu with information and tutorials for getting your social commenting optimally configured.
New Features to Boost Your Site’s SEO
Comments Plus now includes two new Twitter-related features that will help you to get links back to your site, mentions on Twitter and more followers.
New: Mention Me add-on.
WordPress can be overwhelming at first. And there is a good reason for that – it is an extremely powerful piece of kit. And with great power comes great responsibility. Whilst that’s not at all relevant to this post, it is always fun to sound ominous.
There are a few things that you want to get right with WordPress. You want an awesome theme. All the right plugins. All the right knowledge. And much more. You want to know those little things that we all wish we’d known when we first started out.
Well, you’re in the right place.
Getting Started
Learn the basics
