I am very grateful to my commenters.

I explained this to a previous commenter, but it takes a while to dig through all the comments to find it. So I’ll just copy and paste it below.

I keep a spreadsheet in Excel throughout the month listing all commenters, their URLs, and the date(s) they comment. I update the list every time I moderate comments—it doesn’t take much time each time I moderate, and I have all the information in the spreadsheet by the end of the month.

Then when I’m putting the post together, I add a column and enter the number of comments. Since most are only one comment, it doesn’t take long—I fill in the numbers greater than one then copy and paste many rows of “1? at a time. Then I sort by the number of comments from largest to smallest. Then I copy the first two columns of the spreadsheet (commenter name and URL) into Dreamweaver (any HTML editor would work). I use the previous month’s post so the headings are in place; all I have to do is delete the table rows from the previous month; then copy and paste in the table rows from this month. The last step is to copy the HTML code into the WordPress code editor.

Writing out the explanation took almost as long as doing it does.

I got this idea from other bloggers who regularly thank commenters—I know several that do so.