Comments on: Top Commentator Fix Available

By: Jerry@earn extra money

Jerry@earn extra money — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:22:39 +0000

Yeah that would piss me off if I had been commenting for months and had my site wide backlinks stolden! They call this “Gray Hat” but I would think it’s a little darker than that! Anyway timely fix Frank thanks.

By: Private Profiles

Private Profiles — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:18:07 +0000

I just had to go through this on one of my sites

By: Carol@Stress Eating

Carol@Stress Eating — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:18:22 +0000

I appreciate this - I hate it when someone hijacks my links!

By: jenson relief

jenson relief — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:25:23 +0000

I’m not only hijacked by other people but my blog is hacked by hackers from Israel. All my data is loss and my hosting do not have the backup.

By: Lorecee

Lorecee — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:53:55 +0000

I just got the plug-in working this morning (yay!) and have a couple of comments.

There are other plug-ins of this type out there, but the one that Frank wrote the fix for is “show top commentators” by Nate Sanden (Google it). Nate’s plug-in is older and doesn’t support widgets unless you add the ExecPHP plug-in. Nate has the download link on his support page and tells you how to use it to make his top commentators plug-in show up in your widget menu.

The code in Frank’s fix to makes the top commentator links no follow. If I want to make them do follow, do I need to change the CHMOD permissions in my FTP in order to go in and take the nofollow out? Should I change the permissions back after I do the rewrite?

Thanks again for providing this fix.

By: Ronald Redito

Ronald Redito — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:48:15 +0000

I have realized the same problem with my blog. Thanks for the great info for bloggers.

By: SirNicolaus

SirNicolaus — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:54:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I was wondering how they did that.

By: Lorecee

Lorecee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:51:21 +0000

One of the gurus just started flogging a piece of software that finds and exploits this loophole, so this fix is much appreciated.

By: Lucy How

Lucy How — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:01:15 +0000

Well I’m also going to install this on my new blog but history suggests nothing works for me at the very first try. So I’ll be back with my set of problems if it doesn’t works

thanks in advance.

By: Rob @ Nichemate

Rob @ Nichemate — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:55:01 +0000

Thanks for this Frank just installed it on my new blog. I assume it all works fine. Hard to tell with no comments and being the first of the month