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 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)