An Eclectic Mind

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.

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