SSWI — Plugin beta test: Social Comments

Plugin beta test: Social Comments,or how I will take over your twitters!

Written in Frisco, TX on March 9, 2010 and tagged with plugins and twitter.

So yeah, I have a new plugin I want to get some testing on, called Social Comments.

The plugin is in its most basic form at the moment, but it allows you to login to the site with your twitter account, and any comments you make will be posted to your twitter account as tweets. Eventually I will also support Facebook, but for now I am focusing on a service I actually use.

Currently in development is a system that allows you to choose whether to tweet your comments or not, but right now I am interested in making sure the tweeting system is rawk solid, so no choice for you!

Oh and some of you might be wondering why I am building this, when services like Disqus exist. Disqus is a find product, but call me crazy, I already have a commenting system, why would I supplant it completely with a service that hosts that content offsite?

It doesn’t feel right that I don’t have ownership over that content. I am willing to accept this could be an issue I have that most other people don’t. Cool, then there will be one very happy webbie in the world :)

Please leave feedback here or on twitter, @chrisjdavis me if you have a question or suggestion!

If you post about this on Twitter, please use the hashtag #silly895.

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chrisjdavis, on

@matthewmaber I will hopefully have a version read for download in the next couple of days. #silly895

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mandaj, on

This is a really awesome plugin and I can't think of anywhere else that I have seen it! Will the opt http://tinyurl.com/ygo623f #silly895

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loudestnoise, on

Coolness, Social Commenting, werd! http://tinyurl.com/ygo623f #silly895

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matthewmaber, on

lookign forwards to giving this a go myself. Nice one Chris http://tinyurl.com/ygo623f #silly895

matthewmaber, on March 9, 2010

lookign forwards to giving this a go myself. Nice one Chris

loudestnoise, on March 9, 2010

Coolness, Social Commenting, werd!

mandaj, on March 9, 2010

This is a really awesome plugin and I can’t think of anywhere else that I have seen it! Will the option of not showing the comments duplicated be available? If so I would totally rock this plugin.

Chris J. Davis, on March 9, 2010

@mandaj,

Yeah the next version of the plugin will handle the duplicate problem. Right now the two areas are powered by different code. I will be pulling both pieces of code into the same plugin which should fix the issue.

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