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
- 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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replied, on 24/Nov/07 at 4:08 pm # :
Hye, ozh, je dois bouletiser quelque part mais une fois unzipé et uploadé dans le rep plugin ton machin n’apparait pas dans la liste des plugins …
said, on 24/Nov/07 at 4:11 pm # :
gni, c’est réglé
wrote, on 28/Nov/07 at 12:24 pm # :
hey thats really2 good stuff, i luv that, thanks :)
wrote, on 02/Dec/07 at 2:36 am # :
…because those long ping-back/trackback URL in the name field ‘absolutely’ break the designs of the WP theme =( now you know why I have a longggggg name =).
said, on 02/Dec/07 at 10:54 am # :
theseoblogger » this is not the purpose of this plugin. There are already plugins doing something similar (for instance WP Chunk), and this also often a CSS issue (word-break)
wrote, on 07/Dec/07 at 6:50 pm # :
Very nice. It would be great if you could provide a ‘draft’ option, so that I can recheck it at a later time before actually replying.
thought, on 07/Dec/07 at 9:18 pm # :
Krishna » Draft… Interesting feature request. This would require more hacking, because there is no way in WP as is to mark a comment as pending, but that’s something I’ll keep in mind. Thanks for your input!
wrote, on 08/Dec/07 at 4:13 am # :
this’s a great plugin, i using it, thanks
replied, on 18/Dec/07 at 10:32 pm # :
I’ve basically been doing nothing. I’ve just been sitting around waiting for something to happen, but I don’t care. Shrug. I can’t be bothered with anything recently. My mind is like a void.
thought, on 19/Dec/07 at 10:30 am # :
I’d like to use this, but when I have it activated and go to use it to reply to a comment, I get the following popup error message: error (Duplicate response or posting too quickly), aborted.
said, on 19/Dec/07 at 10:42 am # :
I’m sorry - I didn’t read the older comments and saw there was a solution; my WP Contact plugin. It’s working now. Thanks Ozh.
commented, on 25/Dec/07 at 5:56 pm # :
I’ve translated the plug-in to Norwegian. Drop me a mail and I’ll send you the .po-file. :)
thought, on 25/Dec/07 at 7:04 pm # :
Hello Ozh :-)
I’m using this great plugin and am finding it very useful although there is one thing I wish I knew how to do. How can I make my reply look different from the rest so then visitors can see it’s the admin who has replied?
I want to create my own custom div class and have looked through all the files but I cannot find where I would add my own div tag.
Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Gemma
said, on 25/Dec/07 at 8:51 pm # :
Einar » Great! Mailed you already :)
replied, on 25/Dec/07 at 8:54 pm # :
Gemma » there are various ways to do so. A simple way is to modify your theme so that author’s comments are styled, as explained here: http://5thirtyone.com/archives/774
Other ways: http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+author+comments
commented, on 25/Dec/07 at 10:22 pm # :
Thanks Ozh. I guess I’ll just have to figure it out on my own as none of those hacks work.
wrote, on 05/Jan/08 at 8:20 am # :
Found this fantastic plugin that emails the comment poster when you reply to a comment by that poster here
It even threads the comments to a degree, down one level.
Would love it if you combined your plugin with the emailing part of this plugin.
thought, on 07/Jan/08 at 10:26 pm # :
Charles » Emailing comments the blog owner posts has been a regular feature request. This is on my todo list.
said, on 08/Jan/08 at 11:48 am # :
Greetings!
Just want to say thank you again for such a great plugin! It’s incredible how I could just improve my site with a few plugins of yours. great! This comments plugin was just what I needed as I often don’t answer back to people as the normal wordpress comment way to do it takes me too long having to go to the exact page etc! wow thank you again! stay well and enjoy your week!
wrote, on 24/Jan/08 at 9:54 pm # :
Hi there, what a great plugin!
I installed it and activated it, and all the new features appear in my Manage section, however the Reply to Comment button and the Thread Reply button don’t do anything when clicked. And in the IE7 browser pane, I go to the bottom lefthand error message area, and it says that in line 265 of the page code, which it seems is this:
jQuery.post(’MyURLandPluginPath/_save_comment.php’, postarray, function (xml) {cqr_get_reply(xml);}
there is an “Access is Denied” error in URL/wp-admin/edit-comments.php.
Any idea what’s going on? I tried temporarily changing the permissions on edit-comments.php to all-access 777 and it didn’t help.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
Diane