Simon Fairbairn

I know how it goes. You work hard, carefully crafting your posts. You take a stand on a subject you care about and deliver it with the kind of eloquence and poise that would make your English teacher proud. You post it, and then….
…Nothing.
You check your analytics. Everything looks normal. In fact, there was a spike after you posted. It’s being shared – people are enjoying it – so then why is no one commenting?
You try to intellectualise it – you don’t need validation. You know in your heart it was a good post, you don’t need their say-so. Still, it would be nice if one person – anyone – could give you a little text-based ‘atta-boy!’. So how do you get them to do that?
With the NEW Comment Link Suggest-O-Tron!
This nifty little plugin sits under your post editor and reminds, nay, DEMANDS that you write a little something to push people to publish a little praise on your post. It features a drop down list of suggestions that allow you to ask all the right questions in a matter of seconds and allows you to add your favourite comment prompts to the list! Imagine all of the time that you’ll save – perhaps even as much as a minute!
Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatic link generation – sorts out the link to your respond form, and then adds it to the bottom of the post both on your blog and in your RSS feed</li>
<li>Ability to add some basic styling – make your comment link bold or italic with ease</li>
<li>Want to go further? The comment is enclosed in its own class for some custom CSS craziness</li>
<li>Don’t have time to think of a question? Choose one of the Suggest-O-Tron prompts and be done in seconds!</li>
<li>Ask the same question a lot? Add it to the Suggest-O-Tron dropdown and save yourself many seconds of unnecessary typing!</li>
<li>Draggable meta box – you can drag it up so that it sits right under your post edit field, reminding you to post a prompt</li>
</ul>

Comment Link Suggest-O-Tron

What if you could get more comments on your blog?

Gerald Drißner

kURL connects your WordPress site to your self-hosted YOURLS installation.
The name kURL combines kurz URL — “short URL” in German — with the familiar term URL. In other words, kURL is built for creating and managing short URLs from WordPress.
It lets you create short URLs for posts, pages, and supported custom post types directly from the WordPress admin area. You can generate links manually, create them automatically when content is published, assign custom keywords, refresh click statistics, and process older content in bulk.
kURL also includes migration tools for older Better YOURLS data, local logging for troubleshooting, and optional helper code for true remote deletion and safe reverse lookup on the YOURLS side.
Requires a self-hosted YOURLS installation with API access. No third-party shortening service is included.
If your server uses Nginx instead of Apache, add a deny rule for the <code>wp-content/uploads/kurl/</code> directory in your Nginx configuration to protect the log folder.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create short URLs from the WordPress editor.</li>
<li>Automatically create short URLs when content is published.</li>
<li>Use custom keywords when creating short URLs.</li>
<li>Generate short URLs manually for any target URL from the dashboard.</li>
<li>Refresh and store click statistics from YOURLS.</li>
<li>View saved links, latest links, top links, and recent YOURLS activity in the dashboard.</li>
<li>Bulk-generate short URLs for existing content in AJAX batches.</li>
<li>Import legacy data from the Better YOURLS plugin.</li>
<li>Optional YOURLS helper extension for remote deletion and safe long-URL lookup.</li>
<li>Activity and error logging for troubleshooting.</li>
<li>Optional short URL column in WordPress content list screens.</li>
<li>Experimental sync and cleanup tools.</li>
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<h3>Credits</h3>
French translation: Norbert Jung.

kURL – Short URL Manager for YOURLS

Connect WordPress to a self-hosted YOURLS instance to create, sync, manage, and track short URLs from the admin area.

Comment Link Suggest-O-Tron vs kURL – Short URL Manager for YOURLS