Top Commentators List Fixed

29 Aug

Posted by User Image Jay as Site News

For months now, the top commentators list has shown Betshopboy’s entry together with someone else’s, with no link and no separator.

The problem was that some of his comments had a URL attached, and some didn’t, and that apparently confused the plugin. Since he recently got his own domain, I went through the database and updated all the comments to point to the new URL, and the top commentators list now displays correctly.

This isn’t really a permanent fix, though, since the next person who doesn’t put a URL in when they comment will still show up incorrectly. I haven’t quite figured out why, but suspect an incompatibility with the theme.

I’ll put some time into figuring that out when the problem comes up again.

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Gaje Master (Who am I?)

August 30th, 2007 at 1:37 am Quote
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I had issues with mine and I finally took it off. I have been meaning to work with it but it has become a loss cause. I will be getting back on top of it though.
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betshopboy (Who am I?)

August 30th, 2007 at 4:51 am Quote
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Hi Jay

Thanks for the shout-out to my new domain, and your taking time and effort to fix the “no link on top commentator list” problem really means a lot.
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Jay (Who am I?)

August 30th, 2007 at 10:09 am Quote
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Jay wrote:

Thanks for the shout-out to my new domain, and your taking time and effort to fix the “no link on top commentator list” problem really means a lot.

You’re welcome! I need to do the same for Rosa’s new domain, too, since she has a lot of backlinks from comments that could be useful in the next page rank update.
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Jay (Who am I?)

August 30th, 2007 at 10:22 am Quote
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Okay, Rosa’s links are fixed, so there are now 87 backlinks from comments to http://gajemaster.com/ .

Have I missed anyone else who’s switched to a domain lately?
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Gaje Master (Who am I?)

August 30th, 2007 at 12:51 pm Quote
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Gaje Master wrote:

Okay, Rosa’s links are fixed, so there are now 87 backlinks from comments to http://gajemaster.com/ .

Have I missed anyone else who’s switched to a domain lately?

Thanks Jay.
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