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
Nearly 20 languages! 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
- Catalan: Albert Ferran
- Greek: Stratos Geroulis
- 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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pingback on 18/Jul/08 at 9:00 am # :
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replied, on 19/Jul/08 at 3:19 am # :
Hello Ozh,
I had been using your plugin for several months. It worked without any problems. I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.6 and started using SSL. Now that I’ve done that, only some of the links supplied by the plugin point to https. The others point to http only.
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The top three point to the secure server. The bottom three don’t.
I hope this isn’t redundant for you and is helpful.
Peace,
Tom Usher
replied, on 19/Jul/08 at 5:12 am # :
Hi Again Ozh,
It appears that only the Reply » feature is not working. The other links are automatically resolving to the secure server.
The reply link pops the textbox and allows me to add text and to use the “Reply to Comment” button, but then it sits there showing “Posting comment…”. It never posts.
Again, I hope this info is helpful to you.
Tom
pingback on 19/Jul/08 at 4:15 pm # :
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wrote, on 23/Jul/08 at 1:19 am # :
I’m having issues with the reply function. I get
Error (duplicate comment, or posting too quickly ?). Aborted
Clear Details ?
Then details say:
Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.
I’ve had this before with another threaded comment plugin months back (I think it was YATCP). I am not sure what is causing this and would appreciate any insights you may have.
thought, on 30/Jul/08 at 5:56 pm # :
There is a problem of the reply function, prompt where it is possible to esteem more in detail?
pingback on 01/Aug/08 at 7:34 pm # :
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pingback on 01/Aug/08 at 8:48 pm # :
[...] Respostas a comentários via painel administrativo: o próprio nome já diz. Trata-se de recursos para responder comentários através da interface administrativa, o que otimiza o trabalho e reduz o tempo perdido (carregar página, clicar em links, etc.). Existem muitos plugins que fazem coisas parecidas com isso, como o Better Comments Manager, ou o Absolute Comments. [...]
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pingback on 02/Aug/08 at 1:26 pm # :
[...] Admin Panel Comment Replies - This plugin will help administrators to reply to comments using the admin panel. There are several plugins which allow you to do so right now, including WP AJax Edit Comments, Better Comments Manager and Absolute Comments. [...]
pingback on 02/Aug/08 at 4:20 pm # :
[...] Respostas a comentários via painel administrativo: o próprio nome já diz. Trata-se de recursos para responder comentários através da interface administrativa, o que otimiza o trabalho e reduz o tempo perdido (carregar página, clicar em links, etc.). Existem muitos plugins que fazem coisas parecidas com isso, como o Better Comments Manager, ou o Absolute Comments. [...]
pingback on 02/Aug/08 at 4:40 pm # :
[...] Admin Panel Comment Replies - This plugin will help administrators to reply to comments using the admin panel. There are several plugins which allow you to do so right now, including WP AJax Edit Comments, Better Comments Manager and Absolute Comments. [...]