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WordPress Guest Book Plugin

December 19th, 2006 by Maria Langer

I add a guest book to the site — in about 10 minutes.

I decided a few minutes ago that I wanted to add a guest book to this site. A place where people could enter their comments about the site in general. I get a lot of comments in Feedback via the Comment form, but I really prefer that they be made on the site itself, where others can read them, too.

So I Googled wordpress guest book plugin and I came up with Alleba Blog > Wordpress Guestbook Generator Plugin.

This plugin is an excellent tool for creating a quickie guest book. Install it like any other plugin, activate it, and then click a button on its configuration page. It automatically generates a page template and comment template for displaying your guest book and the entries your site visitors may leave. Since the templates are based on your active theme, they look like they belong on your site. And since they’re templates, they’re easy enough to tweak if you need to. (I, of course, tweak everything because I’m never satisfied with the way things look or work right out of the box.) And since the guest book utilizes the comment feature, all entries are automatically put through your comment moderation tools.

It took me about 10 minutes to install, activate, and tweak the new guest book. And another two minutes to add it to the page navigation menu at the top of every page of this site.

I invite you to give it a try. [Link removed; the Guest Book was taken offline because it became a spam magnet. Sorry!]

Many thanks to Andrew dela Serna for creating such an easy-to-use tool!

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  1. Crowmanic
    June 30th, 2007 at 03:00 | #1

    Thx for the tip and endorsement (by usage) for this Plugin… now going to give it a go on WP2.2.1!
    Also congrats on the site… ;-)

  2. December 23rd, 2007 at 21:16 | #2

    Thanks for sharing! I’m going to check it and install this plugin on my blog.

    Mike’s last blog post: 84 лучших плагина Wordpress

  3. July 17th, 2008 at 21:05 | #3

    Dear Maria –
    First of all, thanks for keeping up the blog posts that I get via email from you. It never ceases to amaze me how you keep it all together and adhere to your iron-clad commitment to keep blogging come hell or high water. I keep blabbering to you about that in each of the few times that I send a comment, but you stand out light a beacon of a lighthouse in the night, attracting errand navigators of the web-waters or allowing them to steer a different course based on your inputs. So I have to say the same thing here again, same meaning, different words.

    I have struggled with wordpress for more time than I dare to mention, and finally managed to be up on the curve enough to have posted test-pieces which I then delete. I have a nofollow to encourage spiders to look elsewhere.

    Today I scoured for a generator type guestbook since my CGI skills have atrophied since I first used them. And today I found that my first hit yielded a good one, and the second was your comment about using it. Just seeing your name in endorsement tells me that I am heading in the right direction.

    Enjoyed reading about your cherry journey, from prep to now. There isn’t a damn thing this lady shies back from, neither is there anything she doesn’t succeed in, or takes her teeth from a problem until it is chewed up and digestible. My kinda gal.

    Glad to know you –
    Eb

  4. January 16th, 2009 at 16:50 | #4

    i need to see your guest book from link you given, but there is nothing but 404 page.

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    • January 16th, 2009 at 19:43 | #5

      I took the guest book offline. It was attracting too much spam. Sorry.

  5. kodrat
    July 31st, 2009 at 21:13 | #6

    how to make questbook?

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