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IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!
Full comment and account data sync between Intense Debate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments stored locally on your own server.
Note: IntenseDebate is currently being maintained, but not actively developed.

IntenseDebate Comments


Sounded like a good plugin but it does not connect with your wordpress site after adding the plugin.  When trying to login it will always say login failed.  I even clicked the create new account and tried and it still failed.


Will not connect

IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog.  Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

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authorGrid is a sidebar widget that displays the avatar of any author on your blog with at least one published post in grid form. You 
can set how large the avatar should be, how many columns (or rows) you’d like in the grid, and the display title of the widget.

Author Grid

Sidebar widget that displays the avatar of all of the authors on your blog in grid form.

IntenseDebate Comments vs Author Grid