Global Author Comments Feed

Provides a global feed of comments from a single author made across multiple sites on your network

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Detail

So, you’ve got users who are posting comments to multiple different sites on your network.

And you want a way to be able to catch all of these comments – just by that user – in one feed… regardless of what site they are posted on.

Well, that’s exactly what this plugin provides you with, a feed just for a selected author that amalgamates all their comments into one big RSS job.

Check it out!

It’s really straightforward too – with no pesky options to worry about – once it’s installed just modify the feed URL with the users ID like so:

http://yourdomain.tld/wp-content/recent-global-author-comments-feed.php?author=USERID

So, if your user ID is #3 then the feed url for that user will be

http://yourdomain.com/feed/recent-global-author-comments/?uid=3

And how would you use it?

Here’s just some examples:

  • Using a theme like WPMU-Dixi which pulls RSS feed onto it’s homepage,
  • By adding it to a 3rd Party RSS feed widget in the side bar
  • Alternatively readers can subscribe to it using feed readers such as Google Reader

Plus all the support you expect from a WPMU DEV plugin.

As usual, we’re constantly refining this project and adding new features all the time.

So become a WPMU DEV member, check it out, and let us know what you’d like to see included in a future release of Global Author Comments feed.

Usage

For help with installing plugins please refer to our Plugin installation guide.

To Use:

1. Install the Comment Indexer

  • The Comment Indexer is designed to index comments from the time it is installed on your network and needs to be installed for the Recent Global Comments Feed plugin to work.
  • The Comment Indexer can’t index comments that were published prior to being installed. i.e. comments published prior to it being installed won’t display in your global comment feed.

2. Install Global Author Comments Feed.

3. Navigate to Plugins in the network admin dashboard and Network Activate the plugin.

4. Your new feed is created at

http://yourdomain.com//feed/recent-global-author-comments/?uid=USERID
    • The Recent Global Author comments feed is for comments on public sites only. Comments from privates sites don’t appear in the feed.
    • You check it is working correctly by working by posting some new comments and confirming they appear in your global feed.

To Use:

1. Locate the user’s ID by hovering your mouse over their username in Users > All Users in the network admin dashboard

      • their user ID displays in the status bar of your web browser

2. Your feed URL for each user is located at:

http://yourdomain.com/feed/recent-global-author-comments/?uid=USERID

3. The user feed URL used in numerous ways including:

    • With a theme like WPMU-Dixi which pulls RSS feed onto it’s homepage,
    • Adding 3rd Party RSS feed widgets in the site side bar
    • Alternatively readers can subscribe to it using feed readers such as Google Reader

 

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