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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said, on 09/May/08 at 1:55 pm # :
Like others here, I am getting the message
Error (duplicate comment, or posting too quickly ?). Aborted Clear Details ?
I know it is a conflicting plugin, and that plugin is ‘Quick Code’
http://blog.netnerds.net/quickcode/
I would like to continue to use both of these plugins….but I don’t see any solutions to the problems above other than to switch from using one, and I didn’t read about any new more advanced error reporting features for troubleshooting.
I appreciate that you are so involved, offering so much support for a free plugin. If you can help me out, that’s great…if you can’t I understand.
replied, on 09/May/08 at 6:52 pm # :
rotheblog » poor code. Replace last line “add_action(’admin_head’, ‘quickcode_add_options_page’);” with “add_action(’admin_menu‘, ‘quickcode_add_options_page’);” and notify the plugin author about his mistake.
thought, on 12/May/08 at 2:21 pm # :
Ozh,
Thanks so much, that fixed my compatibility issue with Quickcode. You took your time to look at that plugin for me, thanks a ton.
I thought your site had subscribe to comments on it…man I was glad I came back eventually to check and see if someone responded. Is there a reason you don’t use that plugin?
Will notify plugin maker…he didn’t respond to my first email so I doubt I’ll hear anything else….
commented, on 12/May/08 at 3:10 pm # :
rotheblog » The subscribe to comment plugins is something I have to implement here, it’s been on my todo list for 12 years now :)
commented, on 14/May/08 at 11:16 pm # :
I installed this comment on WordPress 2.5. It initially worked, but then I changed one of the options (below error messages) and now I can’t get the plugin to work or to get back to the setup options to change it back to default so it can work again…
Here are the three error messages I’m getting when I go to set the options:
Warning: include(/wp-content/plugins/o/includes/_admin.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /wp-content/plugins/ozh-absolute-comments/wp_ozh_absolutecomments.php on line 169
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/wp-content/plugins/o/includes/_admin.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /wp-content/plugins/ozh-absolute-comments/wp_ozh_absolutecomments.php on line 169
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_ozh_cqr_adminpage_print() in /wp-content/plugins/ozh-absolute-comments/wp_ozh_absolutecomments.php on line 123
If you need the full path, e-mail me.
In the Settings for Absolute Comments, I changed the default to #Joe from @Joe. I put something in there that caused all that, but have no idea what it was or how to get it back out.
I have deleted and reinstalled, but no luck.
Any ideas?
Thanks…Scot
commented, on 15/May/08 at 6:14 pm # :
Just for the record, I was suddenly having that duplicate comment error. It turned out to be a problem with the wp-commentform plugin, and the “add_action(’admin_menu’)” thing did the trick.
Thanks again for this awesome plugin!
commented, on 15/May/08 at 6:27 pm # :
Spoke too soon.. now the contact plugin doesn’t work…
replied, on 15/May/08 at 8:58 pm # :
Scot Herrick » you seem to have screwed all paths (/wp-content/plugins/o/ and /wp-content/plugins/ozh-absolute-comments/ ??). Please delete and reinstall the plugin, be sure to upload as is and preserve directory structure.
said, on 15/May/08 at 8:59 pm # :
wpGuy » get a contact form plugin that doesnt suck then :)
replied, on 15/May/08 at 9:30 pm # :
I had already deleted the plugin and reinstalled it, but it will not change the comments page and trying to configure the plugin within settings gives me the above errors.
I also re-downloaded the plugin, extracted and installed with the same result.
This happened when I changed from the default “name” to the Comment # and name option. What happens when the plugin goes to that option? That is what moves this to the errors. Where is it storing that option and holding the setting even after deletion?
Thanks for looking at this; it’s pretty weird.
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commented, on 22/May/08 at 6:46 pm # :
I’m using Wordpress 2.5 and Brian’s Threaded Comments. While I can get the Reply Thread button to appear, when I actually click it, it does not thread the comment. Also, when I use the “quick reply” it sites on the little blue posting reply box and never posts the reply. I have to use the advanced reply to do any replies. (Yes, I have javascript enabled and the box appears for me to try to comment when I click Reply) Any ideas? The more urgent of the two is the reply threaded option.
Thanks,
Brad
thought, on 22/May/08 at 9:02 pm # :
Bradford » First issue looks like a plugin conflict. The blue reply box should contain a few details to help find the culprit.
Second issue, I’m not sure. I’ve never had a bug report about threading, so either it works, or it doesn’t but no one uses this feature:) I’ll have a look when I have some time.
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