I’ve started the update journey on CommentLuv and it can now parse almost any URL I throw at it!
I’ve also updated the findfeed function so it can parse a users page for a feed link in the <head> section of their page and that’s working much better now.
I am considering adding a new bit that will try and manually find a last post from parsing the source of the users page and looking for something like <div class=”post” or <div class=”entry to grab the last title and link, I’m not sure if it’s worth it though because for long loading pages, it could add too many extra seconds on the function which isn’t the best thing to do unless it happens a lot.
I have visited a few blogs that are using CommentLuv and copied all the URL’s of the users that didn’t have their last blog shown and tried it on the new version running here and it got every single one except for the rare occasion of someone having an extra bit on the end of their feedburner url 
like feedburner redirects that go to a url like
http://feeds.feedburner.com/lalla-mira/wvDM
for some reason, the internal fetch_rss function of WordPress can’t parse a feed from feedburner that has an extra bit on the end of the username. I have tried using the Magpie functions instead of WP and that will do it but WP isn’t playing ball with these type of feedburner feed urls. A standard one will work just dandily, I’m waiting for someone to enlighten me on the WP forums.
I might take a break from it for a while and make a QR barcode widget!
If your last post didn’t show before on here then give it a go now and see if it can! (sorry Miss Mira, it still wont parse yours!)
You can download the latest version here: CommentLuv WordPress Plugin
Hi Dennis,
thanks for the feedback. I had a quick look at some of your recent posts and I can see that not all comment authors have a feed at their site url.
I thought that it might be something to do with your sites speed, I used internet supervision to check on your blog loading times and the few times that I checked showed that the majority of times your site is loading after more than 5 or 6 seconds.[here]
if your or your commenters’ site takes longer than 5 seconds to load then the feed may also take a long time load, longer than 5 seconds will mean the rss feed parser will stumble and give up which might be one explanation.
I checked further and read these posts:
On the hidden nuggest post: (I have seen that post before on a previous visit!) there is only one commenter that has a feed at their address.
on the adsense referrals page: again, only one valid url has a feed
earn money on your 404: same again, only 1 valid url has a feed.
sorry I couldn’t go deeper into my investigation but I am quite busy this month! it seems that the amount of comments that don’t get a last blog post shown is around 1 in 3 or 4 which would explain why you are not seeing CL working on 1 out of 3 or 4.
I hope it is something as simple as this!
sorry I couldn’t be of further help..
sorry if you look for ‘internet problems egypt’ then you’ll understand why i didn’t reply sooner, I cant believe some idiot can drop an anchor and cut off Egypt from the rest of the world!!!! and i really cant beleive that the internet companies don’t have sufficient back up plan’s….
I tried to search again for where i originally got that impression but cant find it! I remember one site that I went to from problogger that was covered in triple x spam and had commentluv installed but after that spamming she had installed something to stop it so actually i should really retract my comment that commentluv was responsible…
at the end of the day whether we have commentuv installed or not people will always spam if they find a way through if we don’t have the right anti-spam tools in place!!
Talking of spam have you signed up for my free WPRemix giveaway yet?
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I have started using CommentLuv for slightly more than 2 weeks and I have to say I think it’s one of the more innovation plugins around. No problems whatsoever till date. Even did a post on that plugin on my personal blog: WordPress Plugins – CommentLuv – Spread the Love. I wish more bloggers used it though.
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Nicholas » Thanks for letting me know! I am still wanting to develop this further, just as soon as I get some time!
This is really a fantastic plugin and have incorporated it in my site with Top Commentators to encourage comments. I did notice that my comments on others sites did not appear and have been searching for a solution. I wonder if it is the blog or the commenter. So with all due respect and honesty this is somewhat of an experiment. Thanks for a great contribution.
Starting seeing this plugin more and more now and must say, very impressed with it. Giving your readers something back is great encouragement.
Keep up the great work.
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I’ve been using CommentLuv for a couple of months, and only just noticed today that it has a nofollow tag in all the links.
Is there a version that has a dofollow tag?
Thanks for a fabtastic plugin,
Jane
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I really like this plugin too. It seems to encourage comments on my blogs … sometimes good sometimes bad. But it doesn’t take much work to delete the bad ones so that’s good.
from several blogs that I visited, I got their commentluv display my links instead of my post title
edit: seems like it happens in here too. I use feedburner for my blog btw.
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just testing to see what it picks up
john: it didn’t display a last post for you because you only have 1 entry in your feed, this is to counter-act spam from newly created 1 page blogs that have an advert in the feed.
Hey Andy, when I leave on a comment on a site with CL, it doesn’t find my last post. Here’s my error:
XML error: Invalid document end at line 1, column 1
What am I doing wrong!?
lance: if I browse to your feed location I get an error from feedburner which is probably why you’re getting an error.
best thing for you to do is try looking at your feed pointed to by your feed icon in the firefox address bar as this is the feed the plugin tries to parse
in future, please use the support forum for error reporting or questions
Great idea! Looks like it is working well so far. CommentLuv is only for WordPress currently correct?
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there is a version being worked on for the latest version of Drupal by Pete White from imafish.co.uk and I have a test version working for haloscan blogger blogs that I’ll be releasing soon.
what platform do you run on?
Andy, great job with the comment luv, very good for us new bloggers. I was using blogger but I’m now thinking about switching to word press because I’ve heard nothing but good things about it. I made my blogspot blog dofollow.
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Here’s a Rapidweaver site with the blog as a link off the home page. Seems to work OK, but I had to point it to the blog page, not the home page of the site.
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To benefit from commentluv do you need a blog or feed or can you just have a website, i was told commentluv builds links to your site is that right or is it simply to point to other blogs?