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/Aug/08 at 9:09 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 19/Aug/08 at 7:20 pm # :
[...] sampling now some of my own WordCamp Takeways and am really excited about Ozh’ Absolute Comments plugin recommended by [...]
pingback on 20/Aug/08 at 5:28 pm # :
[...] Répondre aux commentaires depuis l’interface d’administration : Cette fonctionnalité faciliterait la tache de l’administrateur qui pourrait alors répondre aux commentaires directement depuis l’administration sans avoir à ressortir sur le site public. Actuellement les extensions suivantes le permettent : WP AJax Edit Comments, Better Comments Manager et Absolute Comments. [...]
wrote, on 20/Aug/08 at 11:40 pm # :
Cool idea. I finally got around to trying it and I like it. It would cool if the features of this plugin and the WP Ajax Edit Comments plugin by Ronald Huereca were merged into one.
Thanks,
David
pingback on 22/Aug/08 at 2:46 am # :
[...] Absolute Comments WordPress Plugin and WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin add improved functionality for responding to comments from the Comments Panel in WordPress. [...]
replied, on 22/Aug/08 at 7:15 am # :
This is EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks so much! One (probably dumb) question, though…
Where can I change the default ‘Comment Reply Prefill’?
commented, on 22/Aug/08 at 7:16 am # :
Oops, forgot to mention… I’m using version 1.0
commented, on 22/Aug/08 at 8:45 am # :
Aahz » Old version are unsupported. I think you need to edit something in the plugin but can’t remember.
pingback on 24/Aug/08 at 12:16 am # :
[...] Absolute Comments: one of the features that Wordpress should have is the ability to reply to your visitors’ [...]
pingback on 25/Aug/08 at 2:19 pm # :
[...] hab ich seit ein paar tagen das plugin Absolute Comments drauf. hauptsächlich benutze ich das um über den admin bereich direkt auf die kommentare [...]
pingback on 25/Aug/08 at 3:54 pm # :
[...] Absolute Comments: version 2.0 (Yap?lan yorumlar? admin panelinden kolayca yönetin) [...]
pingback on 27/Aug/08 at 2:24 pm # :
[...] vorgesehen, der Admin muss das jeweilige Posting aufrufen und dort seine Antwort hineinschreiben. Absolute Comments macht Schluss mit diesem unnötig komplizierten Procedere und stellt auf der [...]
pingback on 29/Aug/08 at 7:50 am # :
[...] Kommentare direkt aus Backend-Bereich beantworten kann. Bisher habe ich mir mit dem Plugin „Ozh’ Absolute Comments“ geholfen (allerdings macht das Plugin Probleme, wenn ich per Handy im Backend unterwegs [...]
pingback on 29/Aug/08 at 7:53 am # :
[...] Ozh’s Absolute Comments lets you reply to comments directly from your “comments” [...]
thought, on 29/Aug/08 at 7:27 pm # :
Hello,
Thanks for providing such a great plugin. I’m wondering if there is any known conflict with the WP-Spam Free or Subscribe To Comments plugins. Those are the only two I have installed that seem like they would conflict.
What happens is this: after I click “reply” from an email or the comments page, write the comment, and hit “submit”, I am transferred to a blank white screen. No error messages, just a blank browser screen (and the comment has not been posted).
What’s strange is that it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t.
pingback on 01/Sep/08 at 4:19 pm # :
[...] wieder ein echt tolles Plugin vorstellen was ich fast täglich nutze - nennt sich “Absolute Comments” und erleichtert einem im Adminbereich das Verwalten der Kommentare per One-Klick. Die [...]
said, on 05/Sep/08 at 8:36 am # :
hi,
Im using wp 2.6.1
and the threaded reply dosent seem to work. any ideas why?
thank you
pingback on 05/Sep/08 at 2:32 pm # :
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wrote, on 05/Sep/08 at 4:14 pm # :
Joel » Probably because you didn’t read that it’s not a *feature* but a *feature support*
thought, on 06/Sep/08 at 7:21 am # :
Yeah I missed that part out :) so sorry.
Thanks for the speedy reply.