WordPress Plugin: Rate Your Comments (Comment Karma)

24 Responses to “WordPress Plugin: Rate Your Comments (Comment Karma)”

1. Rub3X Says:
   October 15th, 2006 at 8:52 AM

   This is a test comment, so you can see the ratings. Enjoy!

2. Ian Harris Says:
   October 22nd, 2006 at 10:15 AM

   Hello. I wonder how hard it would be to rank the comments according to their rating? So poor comments get buried and good comments rise to the top. I guess it would be difficult?

3. Raj Says:
   November 4th, 2006 at 6:09 AM

   Hi,

   I have activated this on my new site; keepreadingus.com [using wp v2.0.5], but the voting images are always grayed out. Why is this so?

   Does the plugin take into account the IP of the machine fromw hich the commpent is posted from?

   Or is this some kind of error that needs to be fixed. I even tried logging out and checked, but they ares till grayedout.

   Thanks for any help.

4. josh Says:
   January 9th, 2007 at 1:02 AM

   Hey, great plugin. I’m wondering if there is a function to get the highest rated comment for a post? So when I display a link to a post I can also include some, if not all of the highest rated comment. Any thoughts? Also, and I think you may be adding this to the new build, but I’d like to sort the comments from highest to lowest for a particular post. Thanks again!

5. Jason Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 5:21 AM

   Is there anyway to make this so it does not check IP’s per rating. I am in college and many of my sites visitors are from my college, which only has one external IP address due to the way the network is setup. Thus only one person can make a rating on the posts, and all others are blocked from doing it.

   Thanks

6. Alex Bailey Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 9:02 AM

   [quote comment="7559"]Is there anyway to make this so it does not check IP’s per rating. I am in college and many of my sites visitors are from my college, which only has one external IP address due to the way the network is setup. Thus only one person can make a rating on the posts, and all others are blocked from doing it.

   Thanks[/quote]

   Comment out this line

   $ck_ips = $row['ck_ips'] . getenv(”REMOTE_ADDR”);

   In ck-processkarma.php. A comment is // in front of the line by the way. Everyone will be able to vote unlimited amounts of times if you do this.

7. James Says:
   February 14th, 2007 at 2:06 AM

   How hard would it be to modify this seemingly very cool plugin to allow the readers to rate the posts as well as the comments?

   And will there be any way of “easily” administering the images used for up.png and down.png? Having that feature in the options section (I’ll assume there is one) would be sort of cool.

   Thanks.

8. Bawked Says:
   February 7th, 2008 at 8:33 AM

   coderweb.n...%201.2.zip <- small fix

9. Alex Schleber Says:
   May 12th, 2008 at 5:03 AM

   Hi,

   I was wondering how the “bury” is actually implemented, since I couldn’t find anything about it in your plugin code.

   As a quick hack, I added a function to ckarma.php:

   function get_cmt_karma($id) {
   global $ckarma;
   $karma = $ckarma->getKarma($id);
   return $karma;
   }

   that I then call in my comments (foreach) loop right at the top:

   $karma = get_cmt_karma(get_comment_id());
   if ($karma < -9) continue;

   So we skip over “buried” comments with ratings of -10 or less; set your own threshold here.

   Then you can also use this as a qualifier when writing the comment header info to turn off e.g. a DoFollow link for a spammy comment.

   Anyway, hope someone finds this useful, I would still be interested if there was some sort of implementation of the “bury” that I overlooked.

   I too am working on a way to get the top comment for a post, easiest would likely be to add a field ck_post_id to the table and save this on “insert”. Else it’s going to have to be a pretty messy (and slower) join of the wp_comments and wp_ckTbl_ tables.

   Thanks for the great plugin.

10. Alex Schleber Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 5:08 AM

    Here is the example code for the DoFollow link suppression on spammy comments (note that the threshold for this would be set to lower than for “bury”

    if (get_comment_author_url() && ($karma > -5)) {
    display comment_author() inside of comment_url() link …
    } else {
    display comment_author() only
    }

11. wrongling Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 4:47 PM

    Thanks for the extra code snippets everyone - this plugin has so much potential. How difficult would it be to highlight every comment rated above a certain threshold with a css style? (ie every comment rated +20 or above gets a colored background to highlight it, or an icon, gold star, etc).

12. Alex Schleber Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 11:45 PM

    I finally got around to creating the function to return the top-rated comment
    for a given post:

    function get_top_comment($postId) {
    global $wpdb;
    $sql = “SELECT comment_ID, comment_date, comment_author, comment_author_url, comment_content, SUM(ckTbl_rating) AS ratings_total
    FROM wp_ckTbl_commentMain, wp_comments
    WHERE ckTbl_comment_id = comment_ID
    AND comment_post_ID = $postId
    GROUP BY ckTbl_comment_id
    ORDER BY ratings_total DESC, comment_date ASC;”; // the date is the tie-braker, earlier comment wins

    $comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
    $topcmt = $comments[0]; // take the top-most one, we have sorted for it to be the top comment
    if (!$topcmt->comment_ID) $topcmt=0; // if it’s not set, return 0
    return $topcmt;
    }

    in ckarma.php:

    function get_top_comment($postId) {
    global $ckarma;
    $topcmt = $ckarma->get_top_comment($postId);
    return $topcmt;
    }

    then use

    $topcmt = get_top_comment(get_the_ID());

    $topcmt->comment_author

    and so forth in e.g. the while(have_posts()) loop in your index.php to do stuff with the top comment, or place elsewhere in your templates or custom widgets.

    Watch this function in action on my blog:

    businessmi...dhacks.com
    (top comment excerpt with DoFollow link displayed if present for every post on the index page)

    Best - Alex

13. KC Says:
    August 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 PM

    When I installed it first time, the images were grayed out. Turns out I did not create sub directories (images and RCS) in plugins directory while uploading to the server. Make sure you follow the directory structure in the zip file

14. MikeonTV Says:
    August 24th, 2008 at 6:09 PM

    Why is it that the newest version is not the same template as what we have in this discussion?

    I would like to have the two vote buttons and then the tallied number next to it rather than how many up votes next to the thumb up and how many downs next to the thumb down. Can you specify how to do this?

15. Sally Says:
    September 20th, 2008 at 4:34 AM

    When I installed it first time, the images were grayed out. Turns out I did not create sub directories (images and RCS) in plugins directory while uploading to the server. Make sure you follow the directory structure in the zip file

    - I’m getting the same problem as Raj did. I have the folders “images” and “RCS”, but inside the ck-karma directory, not inside its parent (which is plugin) dir.

    Why? Is it because I’m testing it locally (localhost/127.0.0.1)? :P If so, what should I do to fix the problem?

16. SPiHC Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 6:11 AM

    I’ve noticed a few different people ask if it would be possible to sort the comments by current rank.

    I was wondering if it’d be possible to take Alex Schleber’s addition there and modify it into a top 10 / top 5 listing?

    Cheers,
    SPiHC

17. drew3000 Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 9:46 AM

    Got it to show up with a little tinkering (plus my theme’s calls are different from the usual) but it’s not really allowing people to actually vote. It just shows up. The curser ctivates when hovering over but when you click thumbs up or down, nothing changes. Anyone have anything similar?

18. MitchMoore Says:
    December 10th, 2008 at 10:51 PM

    Any help available… I installed the plugin as directed. Everything shows up and it seems to be fine, but when I try to vote up or down it doesn’t do anything?

    Even the ones for the comments on this page wont let me vote… I get an error msg on this page, but nothing on mine.

    I just upgraded to WP version 2.6.5 anyone have an ideas or suggestions? THX!!

19. magic Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 3:22 PM

    everything is possible. btw, alexes method is for karma 1 and to the old database structure. Also the first function would be enough. You could also take alexes mathod and have it return the comments so you could loop through that and have the comments sorted by most rated etc.

20. Peter Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 7:57 PM

    How can this be integrated into Wordpress 2.7 comments ?

    As there is no “foreach” anymore.

    Thanks.

21. Michael Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 7:13 PM

    Hey, I got a problem, nothing big, just annoying: If someone rates a comment the space between the icon and the current score disappears and everything right to the icon slips a few pixels to the left. Has anyone an idea how to avoid that?

    Thanks, Michael

22. Voucher Codes Says:
    January 11th, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    Many thanks for this superb plugin.

    Will be interested to learn the compatibility with 2.7 though.

    Is there anyway i can call a list of the most voted comments?

23. Bawked Says:
    January 21st, 2009 at 10:29 AM

    holy shit my inbox still gets hit by this…… i might tweak it to work with 2.7 for those out there.

24. Peter Says:
    June 9th, 2009 at 11:26 AM

    Any advance in making it work with 2.7 or 2.8 that its coming out ?

    Thanks.

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