More Chocolatey Goodness - Wordpress Comment Integration
Yesterday, we released the ability for people to have more than one account under a single profile. Yet, we decided that just wasn’t good enough. “No,” we said, “there must be more!”
We huddled together (we often huddle) and thought about options.
Many of the options were just untenable. We thought about having all of our search results in Comic Sans.
Quickly, we realized that wasn’t a great idea.
After a little while, it dawned on us.
“We should integrate Wordpress comments!” (After all, “wordpress” is our #1 search result internally, and we have a kick-ass wordpress plugin.)
A cry rose from our huddle…
(I think one of the developers might have actually cried, but I am certainly not one to to mention any names)
…and away we went. Now along with our integrations of Disqus, JS-Kit, Intense Debate, if you are using the default Wordpress comments, you will find a nice link in the lower left that will expose a few of the comments on the post, and a link to view more comments.
With the inclusion of Wordpress comments (even Wordpress.com comments, which is ironic since *cough* Automattic wont allow us to be installed on their Wordpress.com platform *cough*) our publishers can see the direction we are going with our feature set.
Our mission is to expose the expertise and influence of our publishers to their audience by surfacing more of the blogger’s content to their readers. It is clear that OnceUponAWin.com has great 80’s nostalgia content, and a passionate user base making them experts on, well, Shrinky Dinks.
As a user, there is nothing you need to do to have your Wordpress comments surfaced. They will automagically appear within results as of today on bloggers who are using our backend search.
More integrated content; more understanding of bloggers by their audience; more surfaced expertise and influence.
Seems like a win for everyone.
