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
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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
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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.
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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?
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".
Ozh: Does the plugin have a fallback mechanism, in case javascript is not there?
Shantanu Goel » Everything is added via and requires Javascript, so if it's not there the plugin just does… nothing.
John Kolbert » Good catch, indeed. Damn. I'm not sure I'll be able to fix this. Thanks anyway, I'll look into it!
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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!
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
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…
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Diego » Muchas gracias Diego, I'll add the translation soon!
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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.
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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
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.
Vinny Carpenter » Use another contact form that does not suck.
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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
Leo » Ho yeah, indeed, completely forgot that part :)
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… ;)
Samuel » what plugin and what error exactly ?
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 ;)
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.
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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!
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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
MittLivSomJag » Try a contact form that doesnt suck.
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.
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..
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! :)
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.
I just figured out that it's got something to do with CommentLuv, not Absolute Comments – and I think it's because I use ISO-8859-1 in my WP, instead of UTF-8. I've notified Fiddy too, so we'll see what happens!
Sorry 'bout this. :)
Shamini » Doh. *Always* use UTF8 everywhere :)
I can't use UTF-8, 'cause then my blog looks f*cked. :(
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I have a request: in a future version, please separate the "spam" and "delete" links from the others — it hasn't happened yet, but I'm afraid I'll accidentally click one of them while going for "approve" or "reply". :(
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