Earlier today I was catching up on some reading over at Famous Blogger and I came across an article Hesham wrote about CommentLuv making new design changes to the plugin. The new changes include, bug fixes, updated badges, click tracking, and Dutch translation. Naturally, after reading up on the articles from Famous Bloggers and CommentLuv, I had to update Evolutionary Designs. In order to make the updates, I had to install the new plugin manually. The new plugin has not been updated when looking at the comluv plugin through the dashboard.

NOTE: To install the new pluging simply Delete the old plugin from your installed plugin library >>> Download Plugin from ComLuv >>> Upload the plugin through the install new plugin dashboard.

CommentLuv Settings

Once you get the new plugin is installed, go to the settings page and configure the plugin as needed.

As you can tell, there isn’t much to the settings. It took me about 2 minutes to configure and test. I am happy with the new look and feel of the plugin. If you are not using verson 2.8 (current as of 8/18/2010), I highly recommend getting the latest verson of ComLuv!

CommentLuv New Design

I love the new design and the information available to those reading our comments. I like the fact you can see the user bio, how many times the links have been clicked, where I have been commenting, and my recent articles. These new additions are great and may even give you some new places to comment on. I would like to see a change that makes the links clickable instead of just a label.  Maybe this will be added in the future. Below is a screenshot of how I configured ComLuv on this site.