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 13/Apr/08 at 3:33 pm # :
[...] Absolute Comments 2.0 » Ozh (url) Reply instantly to comments, either from the email notification, or the usual Comments page, without loading the post first. For WordPress 2.5+ [...]
said, on 14/Apr/08 at 12:34 am # :
Thanks for this plugin. I highly suspect an incompatibility between Absolute Comments and Comment Referrers.
ocaoimh.ie/comment-referrers/
Developing…
Thanks for listening,
Chris Masse
pingback on 14/Apr/08 at 12:42 am # :
[...] with Absolute Comments, it’s mostly because of a conflicting plugin. I’ve put this troubleshooting guide to help you identify [...]
wrote, on 14/Apr/08 at 1:45 am # :
Doesn’t play well with captcha plugins. They don’t show on the reply editor and balk because there was no entry made for the captcha.
Perhaps if there were an option to load the original comment page instead of the ajax quickie page this could work.
pingback on 14/Apr/08 at 3:37 am # :
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replied, on 14/Apr/08 at 8:12 am # :
Don » What would be the point of loading the comment page?? That’s exactly what this plugin is *not* supposed to do. Plus: how silly is a plugin that asks for a captcha when the admin is posting a comment?
said, on 14/Apr/08 at 11:50 am # :
Looks like the “View All” link to see all comments on a post doesn’t work when the comments are on a page. It always comes up with “No Posts Found”.
wrote, on 14/Apr/08 at 12:54 pm # :
Ozh: Does the plugin have a fallback mechanism, in case javascript is not there?
commented, on 14/Apr/08 at 7:45 pm # :
Shantanu Goel » Everything is added via and requires Javascript, so if it’s not there the plugin just does… nothing.
commented, on 14/Apr/08 at 7:50 pm # :
John Kolbert » Good catch, indeed. Damn. I’m not sure I’ll be able to fix this. Thanks anyway, I’ll look into it!
pingback on 14/Apr/08 at 11:38 pm # :
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pingback on 15/Apr/08 at 1:43 am # :
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said, on 15/Apr/08 at 4:56 am # :
Don >> Try a browser other than the one you are currently using. I ran into the same problem using firefox 3 pre but it was solved immediately I switched to IE. It was due to an incompatible GreaseMonkey script called Wordpress Comments Ninja which does almost the same job as Absolute Comments.
Ozh >>I’ve updated the Simplified Chinese translation for Absolute Comments v2.1 which can downloaded via this link:
http://cuteleo.cn/wp-content/uploads/archives/translations.zip
Thank you for your amazing plugin!
said, on 15/Apr/08 at 5:45 pm # :
Hi, this is a great plugin. It adds the functions that are left on the Comments page. I make the Spanish translation because I see that there is none. Here are the links if you want to add them for the spanish users:
Absolute Comments in Spanish Post
Spanish Direct File Download
You could download the zip that has all the translations and just copy the es_ES to include in your zip file. Thanks a lot!!
Regards
Diego
thought, on 15/Apr/08 at 5:46 pm # :
Sorry, I don’t know why the post link didn’t work, here is again:
http://www.cabai.com.ar/2008/04/absolute-comments-en-espaol.html
Sorry again…
pingback on 15/Apr/08 at 6:50 pm # :
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commented, on 15/Apr/08 at 7:50 pm # :
Diego » Muchas gracias Diego, I’ll add the translation soon!
pingback on 15/Apr/08 at 8:12 pm # :
[...] PlanetOzh a concocter un Plugin destiné a cette tache , depuis votre panneau de configuration , il a ajouter deux liens fort utiles , l’un pour répondre immédiatement au commentaire et l’ autres pour voir tous les commentaires d’un article donné … [...]
commented, on 15/Apr/08 at 8:58 pm # :
One side note, it would be nice if the “unapprove” and “delete” button traded places because it is very easy to accidentally click delete instead of reply.
pingback on 15/Apr/08 at 11:16 pm # :
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