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 07/Aug/08 at 12:32 am # :
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said, on 08/Aug/08 at 4:26 am # :
Wow, it’s really nice this plugin. I was looking for. Thanks a lot!
pingback on 08/Aug/08 at 8:48 am # :
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pingback on 08/Aug/08 at 5:16 pm # :
[...] default WordPress commenting system. This plugin appears to borrow some code and ideas from my own Absolute Comments as well as throwing a few other features in the mix. The lack of file and directory structure in [...]
said, on 08/Aug/08 at 9:57 pm # :
I wanted to make you aware of an issue that affects the function of Absolute Comments. There is a known problem w. v. 2.6 & the new way it deals with login cookies that causes a conflict for some users. Here is the forum link to the thread.
When the cookie conflict occurs & you use the e mail notification to try to reply to a comment, when you click Reply you get an Absolute Comment error saying you’re not allowed to do that. The reply comment will not publish & the text written into the comment box is wiped out forcing you to rewrite the comment fr. scratch.
I now understand that this happens because you’re not logged in. I’d suggest that you try to devise a way for users like myself to receive a more specific error msg. (like “cannot publish unless logged in” or something like that). I’d also suggest if there was a way to allow the browser to cache the comment so you didn’t lose it after receiving yr error msg., that would be enormously helpful. Current function wipes out the comment after receiving the error.
wrote, on 09/Aug/08 at 12:00 am # :
Richard Silverstein » I don’t get it. When I’m not logged in, I cannot access any of the Absolute Comments parts, and definitely not the quick reply link from the notification email. All I get is a login form.
pingback on 09/Aug/08 at 11:01 pm # :
[...] Panelinden Yorum Cevaplama: ?u anda WP AJax Edit Comments, Better Comments Manager ve Absolute Comments gibi eklentiler taraf?ndan sa?lanan özellik yine standart hale getirilip, yap?lan yorumlara [...]
pingback on 11/Aug/08 at 2:17 pm # :
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pingback on 11/Aug/08 at 4:02 pm # :
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replied, on 12/Aug/08 at 5:38 pm # :
Thanks for the great plugin!
Unfortunately it conflicts with the Survey Gizmo Plugin which is very important for my website.
I always get an error like “Error (duplicate comment, or posting too quickly ?). Aborted”
[code]Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_options_page() in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\surveygizmo\surveygizmo.php on line 40[code]
Is there something I can do?
Thanks,
Eddie
wrote, on 12/Aug/08 at 7:22 pm # :
Eddie » Edit and fix this Survey Gizmo Plugin:
on the last 2 lines of the main plugin file surveygizmo.php, change the 2 add_action(’admin_head’ with add_action(’admin_menu’
And please notify the author so he fixes his plugin.
pingback on 12/Aug/08 at 8:38 pm # :
[...] by Rebecca on 12 Aug 2008 at 8:38 | Tagged as: Babbel Nu har jag installerat ett plugin som gör att det inte är lika omständigt för mig att svara på era kommentarer. Så jag lovar [...]
said, on 13/Aug/08 at 9:45 am # :
Ozh,
You are a genius! :)
Thank you very much for the support! Everything is fine now.
I’ll contact the author of the plugin, so he can make the changes.
Thanks again,
Eddie
pingback on 13/Aug/08 at 11:18 am # :
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pingback on 13/Aug/08 at 11:46 am # :
[...] Admin Panel Comment Replies - This function will allow administrators to reply to comments using the admin panel. There are several plugins which allow you to this, including WP AJax Edit Comments, Better Comments Manager (my personal favorite) and Absolute Comments. [...]
pingback on 14/Aug/08 at 6:36 am # :
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pingback on 14/Aug/08 at 2:35 pm # :
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pingback on 18/Aug/08 at 7:09 am # :
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