About BlogFollow
BlogFollow is a WordPress plugin that shows a snippet from a commenter’s blog at the bottom on their comment. The purpose of this is to encourage user participation in your blog, by providing an incentive - an excerpt from their blog. Both parties win. The blog using BlogFollow receives more comments/content. The commenter has a chance to win new readers using both the comment and a snippet from their blog, which may be completely unrelated to the post topic.

Version
v1.0 - Initial Release (April 21st, 2007)

Compatibility
WordPress2
PHP4 and PHP5

Download
blogfollow.zip

Install
1. Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory
2. Activate it in the Plugin options
3. The commenters feed will be determined automatically if they enter in a url. You don’t have to edit your tempate files either.
4. You may want to edit your css. See below for an example.

/******************** BlogFollow Plugin *********************/
.blogfollow {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 5px;
	line-height: .5em;
}
.blogfollow legend {
	font-weight: bold;
	padding: 0 5px;
}
.blogfollow h2 {
	margin: 0 0 5px 0;
	padding: 0;
	font-size: 1.1em;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.blogfollow p {
	padding:0;
	margin: 0;
}

Badge
You can also add the BlogFollow badge to your site, so readers know you are running the plugin. Add to your template:

In The Future

• Option to adjust the cache time (currently 24 hours - although Magpie RSS Parser also has a cache so it could be longer)
• Whitelist/Blacklist option
• Option to configure the generic text (currently “Read more from “)
• Option to set how much of the post to show (currenlty 100 characters)

Popularity: 5% [?]