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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thought, on 07/Nov/07 at 10:10 pm # :
Chris » there's no "Reply" link to comments in moderation because, well, I thought it would be mostly useless :) If you want to add it, it's pretty simple, add the following at the end of the main file:
I may add this as an option in next release.
commented, on 07/Nov/07 at 10:13 pm # :
kux » I'm not recommending any contact form plugin. The one I use (this) is less than optimal and the code mostly sucks (but at least it's not breaking every plugin). I never really took some time to search for something decent :)
thought, on 08/Nov/07 at 5:54 pm # :
Great plugin. I am real tired of having to moderate a comment and then go back and find the post and then reply.
wrote, on 08/Nov/07 at 11:50 pm # :
Stephan » I think next release will have the "Reply from moderation notification email" link, so you will be able to reply & moderate all at once in the same admin screen. How cool will this be ? :)
replied, on 09/Nov/07 at 11:21 am # :
Nice plugin, Ozh. I've been looking for something like this for a while. If I may, I'd like to suggest to kux and Ben that they check out Mike Cherim's "Secure & Accessible PHP Contact Form" plugin for WordPress over at http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=136
I'm not sure right now how well it works with your plugin, but if I get some free time this weekend, I'll be more than happy to take the two out for a test spin on a blogging resource site I'm in the process of developing and let you know how well the two work together.
thought, on 09/Nov/07 at 5:10 pm # :
Hey, Ozh,
For some reason this plugin is putting a terrible strain on my database. When I add a new reply comment from the admin panel, it takes upwards of 30-60 seconds to post, and in the meantime, locks down any page calls on my site until the plugin releases the database again. I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but it's terribly inefficient for me. With Better Comments Manager, the submit-to-post time on comment replies was virtually nil, so I'm not really sure how your plugin queries the DB differently. Just something I wanted to point out for your investigation, in case it's a more widespread problem than with just me.
said, on 09/Nov/07 at 5:58 pm # :
Dan Schulz » thanks for the contact form suggestion. It shouldn't conflict with my plugin, just as any plugin shouldn't conflict with another. The problem with WP-ContactForm is a terribly inefficient code which gets executed no matter what page you're on.
wrote, on 09/Nov/07 at 6:57 pm # :
Just a thought... Is there any way to not send email notifications for comments written by the author/admin? There used to be a separate plugin for this (can't remember the name) but it had spotty success.
Just curious if this would even be possibly by your plugin.
commented, on 09/Nov/07 at 7:59 pm # :
Jim » when the plugin adds a comment it's just like posting in the regular comment form on the page post. It takes as many queries, no more, no less. Better Comments Manager does roughly the same thing, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference between both.
thought, on 09/Nov/07 at 8:02 pm # :
Rob » I don't get it... I receive no mail when I post a comment. Are you using different logins maybe? WP is made so that email notifications are not sent to user currently logged in & posting, my plugin does nothing for or against this.
thought, on 12/Nov/07 at 3:45 pm # :
Ahh, nice to see, it's out now! And thanks for the backlink. :)
commented, on 12/Nov/07 at 6:56 pm # :
This is a great plugin! Thanks so much!! Can't wait to use it and talk all about it in my own blog!!
wrote, on 13/Nov/07 at 6:12 am # :
Hi OZH,
I've got error when reply the comments, "duplicate comments"
Why ?
said, on 13/Nov/07 at 7:33 am # :
Raffaell » don't know. Maybe it's because you're duplicating comments?
commented, on 14/Nov/07 at 9:48 am # :
I'm getting the following when trying to post a reply:
"Error (Duplicate Comment, or posting too quickly ?).
Aborted"
commented, on 14/Nov/07 at 10:24 am # :
Alec Peden » you probably have a conflicting comment plugin.
wrote, on 14/Nov/07 at 6:00 pm # :
Hmm, curious! I suspected that your plugin (as cool as it is!) wouldn't affect author notify's. That's really odd that I do get them. I have only one login, set to administrator, ID of 1. I wonder if one of the other roles would work, like "author".
wrote, on 14/Nov/07 at 7:54 pm # :
Rob » Well, same thing for me, and I received no mail from all my blogs.
thought, on 20/Nov/07 at 12:36 pm # :
Ahh very cool, thank you. I would also like to see the email function, it'd be cool to let the commenters know I've replied to them. :)
wrote, on 21/Nov/07 at 2:18 pm # :
OZH,
Already turn off any comment related plugin, but why i still got this message:
"Error (duplicate content or posting too quickly)"
?? and Im not use wp contact form