I will be making the switch to WordPress.org from WordPress.com soon and I’m trying to figure out some of the best options for the switch. I already have had a peek into WP.org because of my wife setting up her new blog on breastfeeding. I have enjoyed the feature available on WP.com called “My Comments”, which tracks all comments that you have made to other WP.com blogs (while signed in to your account). I particularly appreciate how it lists all other comments after yours, and whenever a new comment arises on that post, that list of comments goes to the top of the report.

The only thing I wish it could do that it doesn’t is track comments made on non-WordPress blogs.

On WP.org, one has to find a plugin that does the trick (sometimes like finding a needle in a haystack), or else find some other service outside of the WordPress admin area. I have not found something to my liking that both (1) tracks all comments made on all other blogs and (2) updates the report whenever new comments appear on that post. It would be particularly nice if the report showed up within the WP admin area–too many websites to go to!–but I may be dreaming there.

I’ve experimented a bit with BackType, but it doesn’t look like it performs the second task (updating for every new comment). Am I wrong about that?

How do you track your comments and responses?