Comments on: 6 Blog Add-Ons That Spur Social Media Activity

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[...] 6 Blog Add-Ons That Spur Social Media Activity: Want to make it easy for readers to share your great content with their tribes? If so, keep reading as I share six social media add-ons you can effortlessly integrate into your blog today. Your immediate result: much better engagement with your readers. Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:25:00 +0000

Sorry for the late reply here, but thanks for mentioning SexyBookmarks in your list! It is greatly appreciated… I try to respond to everyone who mentions us, but as the plugin gets more and more popular, I’m realizing that the web is an awfully big place, and searching through millions of Google results is definitely an undertaking! haha

Thanks again!

PS. – More great things coming soon from SexyBookmarks in the next release.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:25:00 +0000

Thanks again!

PS. – More great things coming soon from SexyBookmarks in the next release.

By: Copydimitri

Copydimitri — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:21:00 +0000

Great tips!. Already had Tweetmeme running, but added Disqus to my blog also. Somehow the twitter badge didn’t work, but maybe that’s a Chrome thing.

By: marian sparks!

marian sparks! — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:24:00 +0000

Hi Mike,

In my case, I have a need for specific WordPress pages to collect and display comments (I’m running WP 2.8.5). The ‘fix’ enables me to get what I need (flexibility) and still use DISQUS. Thanks again for the gentle nudge to get it going

By: Michael A. Stelzner

Michael A. Stelzner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:59:00 +0000

Hey Marian,

You may need to upgrade WordPress. I have comments shut off on my pages and there is no such information on the bottom of pages. But thanks for your feedback as it may be helpful for folks who experience a similar issue.

By: marian sparks!

marian sparks! — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:30:00 +0000

Hi Mike,

Wanted to close the loop on the DISQUS issue I had (& in case others here come across same).

Very often I use pages WITH comments in self-hosted wordpress. The problem I discovered with DISQUS is that when you have comments turned OFF on a specific wordpress page, you get “Comments for this page are closed” plus the subscription, reaction & trackback sections. WITHOUT DISQUS, there is no trace of the comment form in native wordpress. So the latter is the experience I wanted to replicate.

As of this writing I could not find an automatic fix on DISQUS for this. Finally I discovered (emphasis on the word “finally”) there’s one line of code that needs to be added to the DISQUS.php file (this is more tech than I really wanted to know). Typing that in solved the problem. It can be found here: http://bit.ly/3xFfg1

Bottom line, I can now arbitrarily turn comments on and off my wordpress pages much like I was able to do prior to switching to DISQUS.

Thanks again.

By: Roschelle

Roschelle — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

excellent tips. My blogging platform is Blogger so I’m limited in some of the things I can add. I utilize the retweet button and would love to be able to install the Gravatar option. Maybe one day…..a girl can dream can’t she??

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:50:00 +0000

Hello Micheal? Great article as you guys always write.

By: Karyn Barnes

Karyn Barnes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:07:00 +0000

Hi Mike,
Thanks for these excellent ideas and timely too as I’m working on my company blog site.
We’re using Joomla…any tips for that?