L’s Linky Love now has an option toggle to permit you to show or hide the comment number count next to the comments. Katie of Byootaful Live and Dave Airey David Airey Designs asked for this feature this morning. It was easy to add, so I did.
You can get the new plugin at the old location. I just overwrite the zip file. So, if you want to stop showing the number of comments, go here: L’s Linky Love.
Note: If you do use a time delay on comments, the comment will say (new comment) until the time delay is over. I could have gotten rid of that too, but I think in the long run, people who sort of “check” whether you are using do follow will learn that the “new comment” note shows you are following, but after a certain amount of time. Plus, based on email conversations, it didn’t sound like that feature was bothering anyone.
Kontera Control and Hide Sponsored Categories Plugins
I am currently trying to trackdown two problems that are happening with Kontera Control and/or HideSponsoredCategories for a few people. I think both problems are related to WordPress’s changes in available function calls for “categories”. That means I have to look up which functions became available in which versions of WP and workaround to make sure this works at least for the most recent versions of WP. (If you have a really old version and/or it turns out it’s difficult to modify for some fairly old version, you’ll need to upgrade! 
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So, strangely because I need to google around and figure out what functions exist, in what versions, and then figure out how to code the same functionality in newer (or older) versions, those fixes are harder than adding an option like showing comment counts in L’s Linky Love.
Is the bug dangerous?
The bug isn’t dangerous. For most people both KC and HideSponsoredCategories plugins just work. For Kontera Control: when it doesn’t work, you never see any Kontera ads. So you don’t need to worry about losing PayPerPost Opps due to the glitch. For HideSponsoredCategories… well.. when it doesn’t work, you just get a blank control screen and it does nothing at all.
If you are interested in trying them, you don’t need to “worry” about anything bad happening, but if these things happen, it’s not you.