Comments on: Lucia’s Linky Love: Update

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:11:12 +0000

Hi are you still blogging? I love your plugin btw, is there a way for you to increase the “Keep dofollow off one particular name?” option? This would be great for multi-author blogs.

By: Joe Crawler

Joe Crawler — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:12:53 +0000

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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:15:54 +0000

[...] above technique uses a modified version of Lucia’s Linky Love WordPress Plugin. The number of comments showing is a great way for other readers to see how prominent a particular [...]

By: Lucia

Lucia — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:27:32 +0000

Finding the number of comments that “match” a visitor involves a database call that goes through the entire comments database, looks for all the comments that “match” and counts. I make that call to decide whether or not to give dofollows. Once I have the number, I can just display it without making any more calls.

About databased calls: Linky Love did the “counting” database call twice for each comment that displays in a post. First when creating the html surrounding “the name” (so Tricia in your case). Then again when creating the text. Worse, the database call was written in a way that itself made an unnecessary database call to find out the email of the person who commented. (This value is stored by Wordpress once it fishes out the comment and it already has done so.)
So, Linky Love did 4 database calls per comment!

I reorganized and stored some values. This lets LLL do the same logic making only 1 database call per comment at most. (It actually makes fewer some times. When real conversations occur, some people comment more than once. In that case, LLL remembers them and skips the database call)

By: Tricia

Tricia — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:02:04 +0000

Glad I could help with some question/suggestions and funny link names. I don’t mind being your guinea pig – especially since you’ve been making plugins pretty much whenever I say “this could be better” or “we need something like this”. LOL

Thanks for changing the # of comments option to 10. I know I could have always edited it. I’m sure a lot of people will use a lower level and I might too, but it’s nice to be able to put it higher if my spammers don’t get the message.

I think I also like the number of comments that match the visitor (is this a database call?), who knows it might give people more incentive to comment more often when perhaps they see that others have left more comments than they have.

Good work.