Responding to comments left by readers is a critical part of watering your blog so it grows and keeps healthy. Out of the box, WordPress mostly sucks at this: you need to visit your own post and post a reply just as a visitor would do. How suboptimal and time wasting. What you want is the ability to reply to comments from within the same page as where you manage them. What you want is a real “Manage Comments” page.
Absolute Comments : comments as they were meant to be
A simple image being worth a thousand words, let me show you how such a “Manage Comments” page should be:
Absolute Comments : Features
This wonderful plugin will change your blogging life because :
- Effective integration
It is completely transparently integrated within WordPress. No extra page, just WordPress the way you wanted it to be. - Cute icons
Did you see all the tiny icons on the action links? How cute! (can turn them off if you don’t like them, of course). - Quick Reply
If you have mail notifications activated (ie you get a mail each time a comment is posted), the mail will contain a handy Quick Reply link to make things faster than ever.
- Comment Reply Prefill
When replying to Joe, do you always like to start your comment with “Joe »” or “@Joe:” ? Define an automatic pattern so you won’t have to type it everytime (the big animated screenshot above shows this feature) - Threaded Comments Support
Your blog runs whatever plugin to support threaded comments ? So does Absolute Comments - Translations Included
Absolute Comments comes in:
- English,
- French,
- Finnish,
- Danish,
- German,
- Brazilian,
- Chinese Simplified,
- Chinese Traditional,
- Hebrew (with some RTL support! That was fun:),
- Italian,
- Tagalog (Philippines),
- Romanian,
- Norwegian flavors
See below for thankful credits. The translation template file (.pot) is included, so anyone speaking something that’s not English and using poEdit is encouraged to share their words!
Limitations and troubleshooting
There are a couple of very minor limitations I thought you might need to now, if you haven’t guessed most already
- 2.5+ everywhere: current version if for WordPress 2.5+ and won’t work below. See below for older versions.
- Ajax everywhere: it obviously means you need to have Javascript enabled.
- Javascript everywhere: it means it will have to break some day or another due to the browser, another plugin conflicting, the KGB spying on you, or anything that might look like an excuse for Javascript not to run smoothly. This said, it was developed and tested in MSIE6 and Firefox with nothing but extreme pleasure.
In any case if things are not running as expected, please read the Troubleshooting guide.
Download Absolute Comments
“Enough of your useless documentation” you think, “give me the plugin !!”. OK Boss. Here it is.
ozh-absolute-comments.zip
Extract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure if any.
Note: download counter here and stats on wordpress.org may differ and reflect the number of downloads before this plugin was hosted on the plugin directory
Older version
Download : Absolute Comments 1.0 (for WordPress 2.3.3 and below)
Same installation as ever.
Credits and Love
- This plugin has been generously tested and translated by the following kind people, in no particular order:
- Chinese Simplified: by Arctic
- Chinese Traditional: by Cronobow
- Italian: by Sergio Gandrus
- German: by iKArus
- Hebrew: by Elad Salomons
- Romanian: by octav
- Finnish: by sadejousi
- Brasilian Portuguese: by Daniel Kaiser
- Italian: Sergio Gandrus
- Tagalog: Manuel Viloria
- Norwegian: Einar Helland Berger
- Danish: Thomas
- Spanish: Karin Sequen
- Polish: Grzegorz Gibas
- Russian: Lecactus
- Swedish: Mikael Jorhult
- English & French: by myself and moi-même
- On early development stages, I’ve had very encouraging feedback and suggestions from Maki, who I thank again for this.
- I’m in love with jQuery. Writing Javascript gets almost fun :)
If you like this plugin and you feel it enhances your blogging and community managing experiences, please make my day and simply blog about it to let your readers know about it. They might like it too:)
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trackback on 06/Nov/07 at 11:22 am # :
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replied, on 06/Nov/07 at 12:21 pm # :
Ah, this plugin is like a dream come true. I have just one request/suggestion. Could you also add a feature so that when you respond to a guest’s comment your response is emailed to them? Right now I use the comment responder because not everyone checks back for responses or can find their way. :)
commented, on 06/Nov/07 at 4:04 pm # :
thnaks for the plugin ozh is very useful!!!
commented, on 06/Nov/07 at 6:49 pm # :
You know what would be really cool?
Integration with Comment Mailer. So they you could really reply to your commentors.
Nice plugin idea, idea :)
wrote, on 06/Nov/07 at 7:29 pm # :
Oh, wow, very nice!
wrote, on 06/Nov/07 at 8:20 pm # :
Elaine » adding the ability to send emails sounds cool, I’ll have a look at this. As for adding support for other plugins, this is something I want to avoid when possible, because maintaining compatibility while other plugins’ code evolve is a real pain.
commented, on 06/Nov/07 at 8:39 pm # :
Brilliant plugin. This is how WP’s comments should have functioned out of the box.
said, on 06/Nov/07 at 10:59 pm # :
Hmm, hold the phone. I'm getting the following error when making a comment in the admin area:
Any thoughts?
said, on 06/Nov/07 at 11:08 pm # :
Ok, this is interesting. Turns out that my comments did post to the database. But that error occurred only after the plugin attempted to display the results.
Permissions problem of some sort?
wrote, on 07/Nov/07 at 12:06 am # :
Understandable.
Great. Sounds cool.
said, on 07/Nov/07 at 12:10 am # :
Rob » OK, got it. I develop on PHP5 and your server is running on PHP4, and this is a PHP4 only error. Going to fix this in the next minutes.
Edit: this should be fixed. Anyone on PHP4 please re-download the file (I didn't bump the version up)
replied, on 07/Nov/07 at 2:32 am # :
Plugin sounds great - I liked the idea of the other comments manager plugin but the separate page just didn't make sense to me.
Unfortunately I can't seem to post any comments. If I use the inline posting I get the error...
"Error (duplicate content or posting too quickly)"
If I post a quick reply I get the error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_options_page() in /home/.oedipus/binarysun/binarymoon/wp-content/plugins/wp-contact-form/wp-contactform.php on line 342
so I wonder if there is some sort of plugin conflict going on somewhere?
Would love some help so I can get this working :)
Thanks in advance
replied, on 07/Nov/07 at 2:45 am # :
hello ozh
thanks for this plugin even he dosn't work on my blog (wp 2.2.3).
i got everytime a strange error message on my browser.
"The page at http://blog.superdesign.ch says:
Fault (double coment or to fast publishing?)
action terminated"
this on camino (gekko engine, macosx 10.4.10).
do you have any idea what to do?
thanks
thought, on 07/Nov/07 at 2:49 am # :
same problem like BEN.
sorry for my bad english on my previous post.
wrote, on 07/Nov/07 at 9:50 am # :
Ben & Kux » this message pop when the comment has not been posted for some reason. I heavily suspect WP-ContactForm, the crappiest plugin on earth with ugliest broken code I've ever seen. How are things when you disable it ?
replied, on 07/Nov/07 at 11:06 am # :
Ok - that fixes it. Now I need to find a new contact form plugin.
BTW I am from England but your flags say Italy. Maybe you need to update your IP database :)
Must admit the second error gave me the impression that plugin was the issue. Didn't realise it was such a bad one though - the advantage (disadvantage?) of plugins.
Thanks
commented, on 07/Nov/07 at 11:24 am # :
As before...
Awesome plugin...
But just one thing, change the url of my blog...this one is for my partner
hehe
mine is http://www.dkcell.com.br/design
Thanks for credits...
If need anything else tell
replied, on 07/Nov/07 at 1:41 pm # :
@Ozh
thanks. it works now.
please tell us wich CONTACT PLUGIN do you use.
said, on 07/Nov/07 at 3:04 pm # :
excellent and powerful !
said, on 07/Nov/07 at 6:43 pm # :
Any reason why the "reply" link doesn't show up in the comment moderation queue? Since I moderate all my comments, being able to reply from there would be ideal, personally. Thanks! ;)