With the Weblog Tools Colletion plugin competition looming I figured I’d better write me a plugin, so the last two have been spent doing just that; and I’m quite excited about this one. The new plugin is called: Fun with in-context comments.

Can you guess what it does yet?

I noticed that a lot of comments where the person is asking for support miss out information that can be very useful; information such as What version of WordPress are you using, or what version of the plugin are you using? With these things missing there are comments all over the place which are followed by exactly those questions.

The second, and related problem that I noticed is that when you are using a plugin and run into a problem you often have to search through hundreds of comments trying to find an answer. Not knowing what version of the plugin those people were using means you could be reading through possible solutions that simply won’t be applicable any more.

Of course my plugin isn’t only for support questions, but that is why I have developed it.

So what’s it do?

If you take a look at any of the pages for my plugins on this blog you will find that the comment section asks you to choose which version of WordPress you are using, and which version of the plugin you are using.

You may also noticed, depending on when the last comment was made, that the answers given are displayed on the comment itself.

The plugin lets you create questions that your users can select from when they provide a comment on your blog.

You can create the questions centrally to apply the same question to multiple posts, or pages, or you can create questions that are specific to that page or post.

If this sounds like something you might like to test then please comment below. I am looking for a few people to give me feedback on their experience.

You must be using WordPress 2.5