Absolute Comments allows you to reply to comments right from the email notification. It also automatically fills the reply with the commenter's name (so if you reply to Joe, your comment will be prefilled with "Joe » " for your convenience)
There's no setup, no setting. Just upload, activate and forget.
Download Absolute Comments
This plugin is for WordPress 3.1+.
ozh-absolute-comments.zip
Extract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure if any.
Older version
Absolute Comments used to be a feature packed plugin, back in the WordPress 2.x days. WordPress 2.7 implemented most of these much needed features (reply to comments from the Edit Comments page, those stuff you don't even believe weren't always part of WordPress). Older versions are still available but totally unsupported, obviously.
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:)
Feedback
I'm closing the comments here. This post is attracting 80% of my spam and I'm tired of manually moderating messages. If you have a question, ask your mom :)
Shorter URL
Want to share or tweet this page? Please use this short URL: http://ozh.in/kq
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.
I've translated the plug-in to Norwegian. Drop me a mail and I'll send you the .po-file. :)
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
Einar » Great! Mailed you already :)
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
Thanks Ozh. I guess I'll just have to figure it out on my own as none of those hacks work.
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.
Charles » Emailing comments the blog owner posts has been a regular feature request. This is on my todo list.
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!
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
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.
"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..
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 »
…
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.
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.
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.
Hi,
Thanks for this great plugin. Is it compatible with "Comment Referrers" (and conversely)? I have a doubt.
Thanks.
Chris Masse
Chris Masse » Don't know. Try. Tell us :)
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
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.
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.
Thanks for updating the plugin compatibility page!
hi.thank you for plugins
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?
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.
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.
Ah ok thanks very much!
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?
chabot » Sure: upgrade to the minimal WP version supported. Yours is old, deprecated and insecure.
hello, can you update this plugin for version 2.5 ?
this is very usefull . thank you :)
hi, i am using this plugin since a few weeks. today my site crashed with an error (in german) like "The Email could no be sent. Probably on your server the function mail() is deactivaded." it seems by sending a ping the function crashed… no idea. Do you know what happened and how I could fix it?? THANKS!!!
vsy » real soon!
Buenos Aires Insider » No idea, and it's probably completely unrelated to my plugin. Contact your server admin.
wow, too cool to be true :)
I just want to thank you for this plugin
any idea when the WP 2.5 compatible version will be ready? i'm lost without your plug-in!
Waiting for the new version…：）It's one of my favourite plugins.
I am also waiting for the 2.5 compatible version desperately.
Is there any hope for getting this to work for commenters, too? On Livejournal, you can get into an email conversation with anyone on there. If I comment on someone's blog and some random person replies to me, I get an email. Then, I can actually reply to the random within my email. Then the random will get my reply and option to reply himself in email.
In other words, we can start emailing each other, only all the comments are getting posted. Pretty cool. I love it. I've been in some pretty big exchanges that way.
In 2.5, I'm getting the "duplicate or too quick" error every time I try to reply.
Michael » There's a conflicting plugin, probably. I still have to find a way to improve error reporting, to make troubleshooting easier.
Hi, i have problems with your plugin in WS 2.5 I always get an error when replaying a comment, that says error(duplicating comment or posting to soon) print screen is om http://www.mittlivsomjag.com/pr.png
I too am getting the duplicate comment error.
Any fixes?
Don » There's no "fixes" I will be able to do, I'm only thinking about how to improve error report. The error you get is caused, most probably, by a plugin which sends output where it's not supposed to. You'll have to check, plugin by plugin, which one is conflicting.
At least in my case, WP-SpamFree was the cause.
Thanks for this great extension! :)
[…] installation to 2.5. The trigger for this was that one of the plug-ins I'd been waiting for (Ozh's Absolute Comments) has now been updated. I used Fantastico to do the update – so much quicker than downloading the […]
Can you explain about threaded comments feature? It does not thread comments on my blog atleast.
NSpeaks » You need a plugin that… threads. It's just support for those plugin, not a feature in itself. Get one. But I guess I need to make this clearer in my doc :)
Well, Anarchy Media Player v2.0 causes that “duplicate or too quick” error.
That's a shame. I was looking forward to this plugin, but I can't live without Anarchy.
Jeff » Poorly written plugin, probably. Only comments plugin should potentially conflict with Absolute Comments. Other conflicting plugins are those sending content where they are absolutely not supposed to.
nice plugin, I'll use this plugin