All New CommentMILK Plugin!
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Installation Instructions
Step 1: Download plugin and extract “CommentMilk” folder.
Step 2: Upload Folder and all the contents to “wp-content/plugins”
Step 3: Log into your blogs admin panel and navigate to “plugins” and activate the plugin “CommentMilk”
Step 4: Navigate to “Settings” –> “CommentMilk”
Congratulations, you have successfully installed CommentMILK!
Use Instructions
Example Image 1: General Settings
A) Latest CommentMilk News: This is a direct feed from JohnCow and will keep you updated on the latest updates to CommentMILK
B) Making CommentMILK Default: You can set it so that CommentMilk is active on all your blogs posts. It is recommended that you set this to “Yes” and then set your default campaign settings how you want them.
C) Current Running Campaigns: Each campaign that you create wil be accesed here. Click the “edit” ink to modify the campaign settings and “delete” to remove the campaign. You can not delete the default campaign.
D) Campaign Name: When creating a new campaign, you wil want to enter the name of the campaign here.
Example Image 2: General Settings Continued
A) Nofollow: You can select whether or not to allow the comment links to be “nofollow” or not.
B) Text to Display in Comment: The default text is…
[Name]s latest.. [link]
…This will then display the commentor’s name and then a link to the latest RSS feed link. The plugin automatically goes to the link entered by the commentor and looks for an RSS feed in the source code. It does this by looking for…
link rel=”alternative” type=”application/rss+xml”
…in the source code on the URL given.
C) Enter Keyword Phrase: By select “Yes” here, you will allow the people who comment on your blog, to check a box and then enter the keyword phrase they want to use to link to the URL they entered. This will then overwrite the auto linking to your site RSS feed and will instead just enter the hyperlinked Keyword Phrase under the comment.
D) Keyword Phrase Text: This is the instruction text that will be displayed if you select “Yes” to the “Enter Keyword Phrase” feature. For example, in the post you are reading, I have entered the text for the comments on this page as…
“Enter Keyword Phrase to Hyperlink to Above Entered URI”
E) Ignore this… it is getting removed 
F) CSS Styling: You can decide how the text in the comments will appear. An example might be to enter…
border:1px dashed grey; display:block; padding:4px;
… this would but a grey box around the link under the comment to help it stand out and reward your commentors more.
G) Open in New Window: This will automatically add…
target=”_blank”
…to the links in the comments, so when clicked on you will not lose the reader, instead the link will open in a new window.
Example Image 3: Contest Settings
This area is what you would fill out if you are holding a contest.
A) Subscribe Option: If you want the criteria of “subscribe to newsletter” to be part of the contest, then select “Yes”
B) Subscribe Points: Enter the amount of points they will be rewarded for being subscribed to your blog. I usually enter “1″
C) Subscribe Text: This is the text that will be displayed if you select “Yes” for the subscribe option.
D) Comment Points: If you want to reward 1 point for the person commenting, you can select “Yes”
IMPORTANT –> E) Post ID: This is where you enter the numerical value of the post ID if you only want this campaign to be for a specific post. More then likely a contest will only be applicable to a specific post and so enter the post ID # here. You can find that by saving the post as a draft and then looking at the post=# in the URL of the browser.
Example Image 4: Contest Settings Continued
A) Extra Form Field: CommentMILK allows you to enter up to five extra criteria to include and the form filed is where the title of the critieria will go. So for example, if you contest requires a bog post about the contest, then you could enter “Blog Post URL” here and they would need to enter the URL of the blog post that talks about your contest.
B) Textbox or Checkbox: Depending on the criteria, you can have the option so that the commentor needs to enter info (such as a URL) or you can have a checkbox. The chechbox would be used to acknowledge something. This is to allow for more flexibility on the blog owners part with setting up the criteria.
C) Point Value: This is where you select the amount of points received for completing a task
Example Image 5: General Settings Continued
A) Reward Your Top Commentor: You can now add to any post or page a simple little code that will allwo you to display the top commentors on your blog. An example is…
…this will display the top 5 commentors for the past 30 days. I am using this at the bottom of this post for you to see a live example.
B) Get Paid for Using CommentMILK: Not only can you get all the benefits of this free plugin but if you are a johncow affiliate, you can enter your ID here. If someone clicks the banner under the comments, your link will be tagged with yoru affilaite link and if they visit johncow and sign up to our list, then they will be yours. Then if they upsell to TrafficKahuna or the all new SyndicateKahunaPRO then you get the lifetime commission. It is better then just linking to us, isnt it?
C) Add New: Click the Add New if you are creating a new custom campaign.
D) Update Options: Click “Update Options” if you are only making changes and are not creating a new campaign.
[commentmilk num=5 days=30]
OK, so what are your thoughts about this plugin and what features would you love to see added?
all new “CommentMilk” BETA WordPress Plugin
t have that many plugins but…. i want them! lol All plugins below are used by me in this blog, and where chosen because in my opinion they aren’t to well advertised by the majority of my fellow bloggers: 1-Comment Milk
me about instant boot, the computer goes in the standby mode, but everything get saved and turns off, turn it on and it restores. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name Mail (will not be published) WebsitePowered by CommentMilk
, Private Label, private label rights content, Quality Content, search engines, Submissions, Successful Online Business, Sucking Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) WebsitePowered by CommentMilkYou need to enable javascript in order to use Simple CAPTCHA. #13; //
Nice idea. I had a quick skim through the code, and thought I’d offer one suggestion for the future.
I see that the CURL library is used to grab data like RSS Feeds. I don’t know what the stats are like these days, but the CURL library isn’t universially available across different webhosts. To maximise compatibility, a different method (such as fsockopen) might be worth considering.
From my experience, more and more server admins (especially on large hosting virtual hosting providers) are disabling remote inclusion which essentially stops you from using include, fopen, fsockopen.
cURL is widely supported and on the rare occassion it’s disabled, a server admin will generally enable it
I have been waiting for this!!
Great plugin Jason!
I’d test it out on my blog!
Cheers
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Well, I donwloaded it, and so far it’s pretty good. I really like the look of it too.
Thanks so much
So Far So Good!!!
-Barb
Going to try this out tonight.
I like the top commentator feature since it’s giving me some exposure in this post…just kidding
I will be really honest with you mate, this probably won’t replace my commentluv for now as it’s a well established plugin and I’m sure you know what effect branding has! Seriously though it is a really nice idea you had to provide a tool for every blogger out there running a contest.
Bringing together commentLuv, KeywordLuv and a contest management tool certainly is a killer idea, but I think there will be some marketing job to do before it becomes mainstream. When you showed the beta version in your last post I was a little skeptic because it needed so much typing and stuff to do. Now what you are offering in here is a lot better.
Good job and I think the core feature of that plugin, the reason for which people are going to use it at first is the contest management feature.
No worries man, Commentluv is a great product and this is still in beta. The original idea was simply to be a contest management system but I had other ideas come up
wow, you guys really put a huge amount of time and energy into this plugin.
-Mike
Thanks Mike… and good to see you around again.
I tried installing this plugin but I keep getting this error.
Table ‘myusername_wrdp3.wp_campaigns’ doesn’t exist
Thanks Omar, I sent this to the programmer.
Very useful plugins…
With this, comment will surely going up…
This looks like a really great plugin. More efficent than the ones I am using now. I am mainly commenting so that I can see how it works and looks.
If it works smoothly I will put it on most of my blogs.
WOW, awesome plugin… a huge thankyou.
I’ll definately be doing a write up on it, as it will make holding blog contests so much easier!!!
Hmmm…I might be taking advantage of this to take place of my keyword luv plugin…
There’s so much here I don’t think you really need to add or change a thing…thought having more control on what is nofollow/dofollow – such as setting max characters in a name or making it so it only follows one comment per ip per day type of thing…I have no idea if that is even possible, just a thought since being a dofollow blog opens you up for a lot of spam!
Wow.
Absolutely stunning.
This has to be the most powerful plugin I’ve ever seen.
Sorry to comment again, but just wanted to say that you have to options to subscribe to comments via email on your comment box. One from this plugin (above box) and the other from another plugin (below box).
Hey, excellent plugin! I too have comment luv, but I will download and try out on one of my other blogs. If it works out, and I think it will, I may just be switching over.
Sounds like a pretty cool way to get new readers and to market your blog. I like the affiliate side of things….very cool
I have downloaded it though I am not sure if I am going to instal it yet
I think this looks better than CommentLuv. Will definitely try this! I am currently uploading it in my ftp.
I’m getting a fatal error when trying to activate this plugin…
Any chance getting a screen shot and a list of the plugins that you are currently using?
PLEASE!!!!!
Feedback:
1. Better unlinked the numbers in the top commentator widget.
2. There is a conflict with the nofollow-free plugin.
3. Great plugin but still need some updates.
Yo Cow, this looks like a crazy plugin, it has a lot of features and I will need to look into it a little more. I use comment luv too, but this looks like something to try.
The keyword option, top commentator, rss feed, and contest management, not to mention I’m an affiliate too, I’ll see what I can do.
I have to play with it because it looks like quite a few features.
Great, great release!
Thanks.
matt
Wow, Jason, I could tell you worked hard on this, and I do believe it is the only plug-in of its kind for contests, should do really well.
Just installed into one of my blogs for a trial. Clearly a lot of thought and work has gone into this plugin – I’m very optimistic of its usefulness and benefits – many thanks
Jason, Holy Cow! This is a wonderful plugin for conveying link love. Thanks to you hard workin’ cowboys down on the ranch.
Geoff D
Australia
This sounds good! I am going to download it now
thanks for this it seems to be very helpful!
Thanks for the new plugin! I’ll be sure to use this on my upcoming blog.
Thanks!
Does the work on older WP versions? I tried to update a while ago and had problems so I resorted back. Our blog is on 2.0.2.
Good stuff, Cow Man!
Seems that in my infinite stupidity I didn’t put enter a website for my previous comment test.
Just another reason why I need John Cow and your related sites. Somebody needs to hit me in the head with a big brick of cheese on occasion.
I think it would be a more interesting plugin if there was an option to replace the name with a keyword.
This looks super cool COW! I love the fact that it’s all in one, and nice touch with the affiliate link!
I’ve been looking forward to it just for the contest management. It’s a killer bonus to have all this intergrated as well. If there’s no issues, I’d switch without question.
Cheers!
Jay
Wow! That was a very detailed setup process. I’m going to have to try it out. CommentMILK sounds like a great substitute for CommentLuv! Congratulations!
this plugin comes in the right time. hehe the new commentluv version messes with a feature of my blog because of jqueries it uses and jqueries the featured gallery uses..
going to install it right now
hope that your plugin works fine
This looks like an excellent plugin, I have been using Comment Luv on some of my sites for a while, but I think I may have to switch to this one.
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Got a question for you. Is it possible to give the code for the widget. I want to add it but need the code to just pull the widget thanks
Looks like a great plugin. I will be interested when it comes out of beta.
Thanks for posting!
It’s a Comment Luv Plus. Tks.
Excellent plugin, a great way to entice people to comment.
What a great feature, thanks for the plug in.
Great plug in, thank you
I have no idea what this is for, what it does, and get lost when reading the install instructions . I guess just a simple internet dummy huh?
Looks like a great plugin but I just tried it on one of my blogs and I can’t get at any configuration options from the admin interface? Could this be an issue with my theme?
So in your settings, you do not see the “commentMILK” link?
Great plugin. I had to ditch CommentLUV because of conflicts with other parts of my blog. This came along at just the right time!
Hiram
Balance-Your-Health.com
OK, big problem. I uploaded the plugin to the correct folder, then activated it. When I go to the Settings page and click on CommentMilk, all I get is:
CommentMilk WordPress Plugin
Latest CommentMilk News
That’s it. I can refresh the page several times and the plugin goes no further. The status bar at the bottom of my browser says “Done” indicating that it’s loaded all there is to load on that page.
Any ideas?
Hiram
This looks like an amazing plugin, I will give it a go on my site.
Excellent, just gotta recomend this.
Downloaded the plugin with great expectations but after installing and all the setting, tried to save and all I got is:
Latest CommentMilk News
* All New CommentMILK Version 1.0 BETA is Ready!
General Settings
Do you want CommentMilk “Default” Campaign on for all Posts [NO]
Current Running Campaigns
Unknown column ‘keyword_unchecked_text’ in ‘field list’
Meanwhile I’ve set the default campaign to “YES” but it’s showing “NO”
Please any suggestion?
Awesome plugin, I’ll be sure to check it out tonight!
Have checked back and still no soap. When I activate the plugin and go to the setting page, all I see is:
CommentMilk WordPress Plugin
Latest CommentMilk News
There is nothing else on the page. I see that others are also getting “disappearing text” so it’s not just me.
Also, I’m running a “WP Admin Bar” plugin by Viper007Bond. When I activate CommentMilk, the admin bar goes away.
Could there be some sort of conflict?
Hiram
Installed the plugin and it works perfectly.
i will download and install this plugin
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Hiya,
I love the idea of the plugin, but I have 1.01 and 1.03 neither of which are working, is there a fix?
Thanks
Kelly
Seems nice,
can i use it on blogger blogs
Hi!
I just installed it and so far so good. How do I get the “Subscribe to comments via email” button that you have?
I’ve had the “Subscribe to Comments” plugin and it is checked to show. Your plugin, I think, overrides what I had before.
And why doesn’t your picture show below the comment box that reads “Powered by CommentMilk?”
I see a red box on mine and yours.
Thanks:)
Hi,
I tried installing. Getting this error.
Table ‘username_wrdp1.wp_campaigns’ doesn’t exist
Any solution? I really want to use this as launching campaign.
Nice post. Just discovered this blog – new to me in 2009 – so I’ll be coming back for more useful comment. Happy new year to all
Thanks, I sent this to my friend in Washington!
Hi, I tried to change the settings on this plugin and all I got was the following error msg:
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in /mnt/local/home/jaisong/tipsforhealing.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/commentmilk/commentmilk.php on line 160″
What do I need to do to correct?
thanks,
JG
Thanks for this plugin. Works like a charm.
Eric…
Thanks for the information!…
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Oh thank you so much for this plugin. I wanted to use CommentLuv but it’s not compatible with a couple of other plugins that I use. CommentMilk works great!
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Your post is very good and full of valuable information. Thank you for sharing.
And I do agree – keyword luv is indeed the very best!
This looks like an amazing plug-in.
I will probably start installing it on all of my blogs in the near future. Thanks for the great post.
-John