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Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

john — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:07:34 -0000

From a SEO perspective, having a link to your own blog in the sidebar is counter-productive.

If you have to include a link to your own blog in the sidebar, make sure that it is nofollow

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Suze 100 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:02:04 -0000

Great post! I have recently started working on a Wordpress blog and having fun with plugins. I was considering adding top commentators so this will come in useful, thanks.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Jalaj — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:16:46 -0000

It also creates a bad impression that you are the only one who do most of the talking.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:42:56 -0000

@RJ Glad that you found this useful, that's what Techie Buzz is all about making you know technology head on, and thanks for visiting I hope you will find more and more useful things from this site.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

RJ — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:36:48 -0000

I had installed Top Commentators a few days back, but was not able to work out (didnt really give myself enough time, possibly - well! that's my excuse, anyway!) how to get rid of my name from the list.

I have this 'annoying' habit of replying to each commentator (commentator or commenter!??) which would increase my comments count and keep me in a narcissistic 1st position!

Your detailed but easy 'how-to' came as a life-saver. There must be many in my position who were helped by this post. Thank you.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Ashish Saini (Ashfame) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:39:33 -0000

i use the default admin account only but use ashfame as the display name and still i am on the top commentators list. In plugin editor, i can't find any filter_users
pl help asap!

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:35:15 -0000

Thanks Garry glad it helped.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Garry Conn — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:49:22 -0000

I remove my name from my top commenters list too... I would rather fill the space with an additional blogger who contributes. :) Nice post Keith.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Shivaranjan — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:34:06 -0000

Keith, Thanks for the tip. I was actually top commentor in my own blog :lol: now I have removed myself. :D

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:58:42 -0000

Yup true

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Benedict Herold — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:35:59 -0000

It would have been better if Top Commentators plugin had a option for adding the names to be excluded in from the options page rather than editing the plugin manually.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:22:12 -0000

Yup its a little annoying

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

listikal — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:29:33 -0000

This is one thing I made sure I did right away when setting up Tom Commentators, but I do find it somewhat annoying when site owner names do populate into this field. Good tip.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:13:34 -0000

Pelf this happens when you are using a theme that is sidebar ready and shows you an option to add plugins to the sidebar.

I faced this problem too when I was using a theme that supported plugins to be dragged and dropped but not widgets. After I dragged and dropped a widget nothing would work unless i deactivated the widget.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

pelf — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:07:20 -0000

I did it without having to go down to the codes. There's an option page to do it, no?

I loved the plug-in but I'm not using it at the moment because it clashes with my theme :( Once the plug-in is activated, I can't save the changes made to my sidebars (the changes won't load).

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:51:18 -0000

Glad to do that Shankar.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:50:54 -0000

same here, i too didn't realize it in the first place, but when i dug into the code i found it. Many people may not be aware of this that's the reason i thought to write a post about it.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:49:55 -0000

Thanks Nirmal for pointing that out.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

keith — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:49:05 -0000

Hey Steve,

Glad you liked it.

Keith

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Steve OMGtees — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:08:27 -0000

Nice tip - thanks. Must remember to do this when I get home. MUST remember.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Nirmal — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:39:36 -0000

You are right, I too have seen blogs featuring author in the top commentators list. If you are using sidebar widget plugin for top commentator, its easy to remove as there is an option to exclude names.

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Madhur Kapoor — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:37:42 -0000

Even i was doing this thing a few months back . but corrected it in time .

Re: Remove yourself from the top commentators list

Shankar Ganesh — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:48 -0000

Of late, I've been seeing on some blogs this kind of a thing - the blog author's name itself appears in the list. Thanks for letting everyone know how to get rid of it.