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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thought, on 03/Feb/08 at 1:50 am # :
yeah.. also to be more specific. It’s ONLY emailing the person you are replying to that is important.. tie that in with threaded comments.. and it brings people back in droves. The current Subscribe to Comments plugin sends emails to everyone no matter who posts.. or no matter to whom the admin is replying.. and that just pisses people off and they unsubscribe altogether.. but being notified when the Author REPLIES TO ME SPECIFICALLY is such a great feature.
Take a look at the plugin I mentioned above.. it not only emails the commenter when I reply to him specifcally.. it also threads the comments. UNFORTUNATELY.. it doesn’t seem to work with your plugin.. or some other pluging I have installed as I can’t get your plugin to work at all for me.. keep getting the duplicate comment warning thing.
wrote, on 12/Feb/08 at 7:26 pm # :
“Responding to comments left by readers is a critical part of watering your blog so it grows and keeps healthy…” Has to be developed in Wordpress..
wrote, on 14/Feb/08 at 10:36 pm # :
Hi !
Nice plugin indeed.
For what reason did you use variables (e.g. $wp_ozh_cqr[’editor_rows’]) instead of options ? Variables are quicker but need to be re-set after each plug-in upgrade.
Here’s a feature request : find a way to respond to multiple comments in just one answer.
For example, you could add a checkbox before all comments displayed and add a “respond to all” button.
Then it would create a template answer like this :
commenter 1 »
commenter 2 »
…
commented, on 15/Feb/08 at 12:48 am # :
CUI » I always tend to prefer hardcoded vars instead of options manageable through an option page for 2 reasons mainly. 1) because at the beginning I develop stuff for myself and it starts as a dirty plugin, then when I realize it has some potential for others I more or less package it nicely, but there are some leftovers :) and 2) because I’m always reluctant adding yet another option page. My blogs usually run between 10 to 40 plugins, the admin menu gets unreadable sometimes…
As for the feature request, I sort of don’t like it. What I like about this plugin is you can respond individually and connect individually with your commenters.
thought, on 24/Feb/08 at 10:26 pm # :
Well, I must admit that your point about ever-expanding option menu is a good point ; perhaps a compromise would be to keep all the parameter variables in a single short file ? Database options really make upgdrades easyer.
Another feature request after some use : the “view all” comments for a page” page is great, indeed. It would be greater if there was 2 links to previous/next articles.
thought, on 04/Mar/08 at 5:03 pm # :
I found it conflicts with cold-form contact.
http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/08/contact-coldform/
This plugin conflicts almost with every contact form plugin.
Strange.
commented, on 09/Mar/08 at 11:54 am # :
Hi,
Thanks for this great plugin. Is it compatible with “Comment Referrers” (and conversely)? I have a doubt.
Thanks.
Chris Masse
thought, on 09/Mar/08 at 2:54 pm # :
Chris Masse » Don’t know. Try. Tell us :)
commented, on 10/Mar/08 at 12:52 pm # :
I’m indeed trying the two plugins. Waiting to see actually one comment referral, and after that, I will re-enable Absolute Comments to see if that comment referral still subsists… Will tell you once I get to know that…
Chris Masse
replied, on 10/Mar/08 at 6:16 pm # :
Hey Ozh, just so you know (which you probably do), this doesn’t work in 2.5. They went and changed the admin on you! I added an entry to the codex’s plugin compatibility page to let other users of your fine plugin know.
replied, on 11/Mar/08 at 12:47 pm # :
I can’t say whether Absolute Comments messes or not with Comment Referrers because there is a problem with Comment Referrers. Their referrals appear in the e-mails sent to me, but not on the comments page in WordPress. I will contact them.
thought, on 18/Mar/08 at 11:52 pm # :
Thanks for updating the plugin compatibility page!
wrote, on 21/Mar/08 at 10:41 am # :
hi.thank you for plugins
replied, on 22/Mar/08 at 9:14 pm # :
Great plugin man, one of the best. I’m having a weird issues - I can’t delete, unapprove or mark comments as spam anymore. They appear to delete as normal, with the red fade out, than they reappear immediately with the red background remaining - any thoughts?
wrote, on 28/Mar/08 at 10:25 am # :
Seems like a very cool plug-in! I shall check it out! I have one question though. Does it also highlight the author’s comments or do you use a different plug-in for that? Thanks.
said, on 28/Mar/08 at 11:14 am # :
Nanda » Author’s comments highlighting is a simple theme issue.
In the foreach ($comments as $comment) loop in comments.php, I have something like “if ($comment->user_id == 1) $class= ‘comment_ozh’;” then I jus output the classname.
replied, on 28/Mar/08 at 12:33 pm # :
Ah ok thanks very much!
replied, on 29/Mar/08 at 3:56 am # :
Great idea, but the plugin doesn’t work with my blog. I have the version 2.0.4 and I get the following error while accessing “manage comments”:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_enqueue_script() in wp-content/plugins/ozh-absolute-comments/wp_ozh_absolutecomments.php on line 72
Does anyone know a solution?
wrote, on 29/Mar/08 at 11:03 am # :
chabot » Sure: upgrade to the minimal WP version supported. Yours is old, deprecated and insecure.
commented, on 30/Mar/08 at 1:49 am # :
hello, can you update this plugin for version 2.5 ?
this is very usefull . thank you :)