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 16/Apr/08 at 3:03 am # :
Hi there. I am getting an error/conflict with another plugin - Enhanced WordPress contact form plugin. Here are the details:
Error (duplicate comment, or posting too quickly ?). Aborted
Clear Details ?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_options_page() in /home/xxx/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/enhanced-wp-contactform/wp-contactform.php on line 276
commented, on 16/Apr/08 at 3:20 am # :
I don’t know why I waited so long to install this plugin! It is made of pure, unadulterated awesome. Thank you for making it.
replied, on 16/Apr/08 at 9:49 pm # :
Vinny Carpenter » Use another contact form that does not suck.
pingback on 17/Apr/08 at 2:25 pm # :
[...] weeks ago I downloaded Absolute Comments plugin just out of curriosity how it works, later on I started to like because I could replay to [...]
pingback on 19/Apr/08 at 10:37 pm # :
[...] updated two of my plugins today: Absolute Comments to version 2.2 and Admin Drop Down Menu to version 2.1. So, what’s new [...]
thought, on 20/Apr/08 at 4:46 am # :
Hi,
Me again.
It’s a great progress to have the options configurable in the admin page. Thanks for this improvement! But maybe you forgot some i18n work for it? :-D
commented, on 20/Apr/08 at 10:07 am # :
Leo » Ho yeah, indeed, completely forgot that part :)
replied, on 20/Apr/08 at 2:46 pm # :
Hi!
I’m having the ‘Undefined function’ issue but with another function and plugin, this is the error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_options_page() in /path/to/a/plugin/file
The add_options_page is a valid function as defined in WP codex, and this plugin is working right and not giving any error message and neither any conflict with WP core or another plugins.
So… I wonder if you may be would reconsider to think that is possible that this conflict is not about “others” writing crappy plugins but Absolute Comments has a not very friendly behaviour… ;)
wrote, on 20/Apr/08 at 3:53 pm # :
Samuel » what plugin and what error exactly ?
wrote, on 20/Apr/08 at 4:12 pm # :
The plugin is WP-Money.
It’s a very simple plugin and the problem the error message was about the function used to add the options page for the plugin.
After leaving the comment I was trying to fix this (even I’m not the Moremoney author) and I found this:
At the line that caused the issue with Absolute Comments there was this code:
add_options_page('Configurar MoreMoney', 'MoreMoney', 9, 'options-moremoney.php');That was called from:
add_action('admin_head', 'wpmm_add_options_page');So I moved the action to ‘admin_menu’ hook using:
add_action('admin_menu', 'wpmm_add_options_page');And the problem between those two plugins dissapear :)
Maybe the admin_head is not the correct hook for that call, but it’s used by a lot of plugins, so I think that it would be nice to make Absolute Comments take of this…
Best regards ;)
replied, on 20/Apr/08 at 4:52 pm # :
Samuel » This hook is ok, this plugin is OK and there is no conflict with Absolute Comments on my test blog. Something went wrong on your part that I’m not able to reproduce.
pingback on 21/Apr/08 at 12:59 am # :
[...] found a way to do the same in the new version, which was very frustrating. I’ve also found a plugin that’s supposed to [...]
wrote, on 22/Apr/08 at 3:09 am # :
Hello,
I have burnt some midnight oil translating this plugin to Russian, it is available for download at http://www.russian-translation-matters.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-russian-localization/absolute-comments
(absolutecomments-ru_RU.zip)
Good luck with development of the plugin, it is great!
pingback on 22/Apr/08 at 11:23 pm # :
[...] Wordpress Thread Comment??????????????1.4.6 ????????????????Ozh’ Absolute Comments???????????????????????????????????? [...]
commented, on 23/Apr/08 at 10:38 am # :
Hi there! Your plugin conflict with the common plugin named Contact Form ][ by Chip Cuccio.
I also noticed it conflicted with SecureContact thats based on the plugin above…
FYI
wrote, on 23/Apr/08 at 11:21 am # :
MittLivSomJag » Try a contact form that doesnt suck.
wrote, on 23/Apr/08 at 11:48 am # :
Ozh:
I’m experiencing a little problem with “Absolute Comments”. I’m norwegian, but I’m using the original WP (as I generally hate translations) with minor tweaks. When I installet AC, it automatically showed in norwegian, and as I’m using “CommentLuv” in addition, the link-string shows up with a lot of strange characters instead of ÆØÅ and for instance . , ! and so on. Do you know how to fix this?
Kind regards, Shamini.
thought, on 23/Apr/08 at 12:11 pm # :
Shamini » No idea. Looks like a character encoding problem, but I can’t know if it’s because of the two plugins, one of them, or the translation file, etc..
wrote, on 23/Apr/08 at 12:14 pm # :
As far as I can see, it has something to do with AC interacting with CommentLuv - ’cause when I disable AC, it goes back to acting normal, with the correct chars. Sad, since AC looked like a cool plugin! :)
replied, on 23/Apr/08 at 12:37 pm # :
Shamini » On my test blog (default language ie english) I don’t see anything conflicting (and looking at CommentLuv’s code, I don’t get how they can actually conflict). If it’s a translation file problem, simply remove it. Could be also something broken in the Norwegian flavor of WP.