Total Followers 132,503
As always I am trying to mix up topics I cover and this can be considered as continue to previous article. Last time we got inspired and examined many good blog comment form examples, but this time I went further and found 33 WordPress plugins, which can be used effectively to power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security. If programming is not your strongest side, then such automatized plugins will be irreplaceable for your blog! If you know some more effective comment form plugins, feel free to add them in our comment section! For the next time I am thinking about WordPress comment section hack roundup article, so stay with us!
Disqus (dis·cuss • di(-sku(s’) is all about changing the way people think about discussion on the web. We’re big believers in the conversations and communities that form on blogs and other sites.
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.
OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account. XRDS-Simple is required for the OpenID Provider and some features of the OpenID Consumer.
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. I featured this plugin some time ago already, but this is totally related to comments.
Allows visitors to rate comments in Like vs. Dislike fashion with clickable images. Poorly-rated & highly-rated comments are displayed differently.
Self explaining comment title, plug-in that uses Twitter to show avatars in comments in WordPress blogs.
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or regiser, users will have to type in the phrase shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WPMU and BuddyPress compatible.
This plugin turns the comment field from a primitive into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up, without the need of another separate installation. Functions that only available to writers like adding images were removed and will not show up in the toolbar.
This plugin will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit.
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.
This plugin manages theme customization. Everything is managed in the WordPress Backend. Code snippets can be activated, copied, created, deactivated, deleted, edited, and uploaded. For comments you can highlight different comments based who wrote them and where they are, also nice feature to automatically add “about author” section.
WP-Paginate is a simple and flexible pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site. Starting in version 1.1, WP-Paginate can also be used to paginate post comments!
This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments. When clicked, those links insert the author name and a link to the comment you are replying to in the textarea.
This plugin inserts a checkbox into the comment form for users who don’t have a Gravatar (based on the e-mail they typed in). If they check the box and submit their comment, it will initiate the first step of signing up for Gravatar, on their behalf. They’ll receive an e-mail directly from Gravatar and will have to follow the instructions there to complete the process.
IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!
This plugin allow your visitors to attach images or other file to their comments as easily as possible.
This plugin adds a tiny link that says “Quote” on each comment on your posts. Click it, and the contents of the comment is copied to the comment area, wrapped in blockquote tags. It’s even compatible with MCEComments plugin.
For each user comment plugin will create a new dynamic page on the blog, holding the actual comment information. This page will not actually exist in WordPress database, but we will create it dynamically using a WordPress plugin.
What we instantly get in this way is big jump in site’s index visible to search engines. This is possible because blog comments are crawl-able, index-able and most importantly rank-able content. Also meaning you will start to get search engine traffic for the context of the comment.
Smileys in comments is also supported, and may be inserted using the standard emotion shorthand or through the CTI interface introduced in TSE 2.0.1b.
Mask all external links to internal! In your own posts, comments pages, authors page… It does not change anything or write to base – just processes output.
This plugin numbers your comments sequentially and hierarchically, with full support for the new comment features available in WordPress 2.7 and later — including threading, paging, and your choice of ascending or descending date order.
An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.
Live Comment Preview is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site. Simply activate the plugin -That’s it! This plugin uses only client-side Javascript to format a preview, it does not make any Ajax requests to the server. This provides a smooth live preview as you type.
AWP’s basic features include inline paginated posts, inline comments, threaded comments, the ability to submit comments with AJAX, pagination of your homepage, live comment preview and much more, but it does not, however, force you to use any feature, and it also allows all aspects of the plugin to be easily customized through a single Administration panel. It also has special features that will ensure compatibility with many other plugins.
There are many comment-related plugins in WordPress plugin directory. However, if you’d like to find just a simple comment-posting Ajax plugin, you won’t find any. That’s why I developed a simple and small (5kB) yet functional Ajax Comment Posting (ACP) plugin. Not only will it post your comment without refreshing the page, but it will also make sure that you’ve filled all the form fields correctly.
Riffly is a free service that easily plugs into your site allowing visitors to create video and audio comments.
Absolute Comments is a comment manager plugin that lets you instantly reply to comments, either from the original Manage Comments administration page, or from the email notification, without the hassle of visiting the post first.
This WordPress plugin remove the “nofollow” attribute from your wordpress blog’s comments (precisely from the author’s links) and/or from the comments text links and it inserts (if you want) an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NOFOLLOW FRE” to encourage your users to submit comments. The last release includes new options to replace the nofollow only when the author posted X comments before and put back the nofollow when some blacklisted words are matched. The replacement of the nofollow is also based on the users type (registered and visitor users). Every option can be customized by the options page “NOFF”.
Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry, with Double-Opt-In Feature. Based on version 2 of “Subscribe to Comments” from Mark Jaquith
WP Comment Remix adds a plethora of new options and features to WordPress. From Reply and Quote links for commenters, to a full upgrade to the edit comments pages in the admin panel, WPCR will save you time and effort when running your blog.
WordPress doesn’t automatically notify the author of a post about waiting comments. Instead all comment moderation requests go to the admins. This plugin will notify the author of the post as well as the admin. This will allow the author to moderate the comments too.
Get The Only Freelancer crash course you will ever need to read!
Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 00:29
I am looking for a plugin where comments can have a title displayed not just a person’s name and the date comment was displayed.
I am also looking for a plugin that allows users to apply a tag to their comment just as one can apply tag/category to a Post.
Monday, November 16th, 2009 07:20
Thanks for the post, i enjoyed reading it. blogging is not as easy as many think it is, it’s hardwork. any how thanks.
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 02:29
Great post! Starting a new blog and needed some ideas!
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 18:05
I like these, would help me a lot while i’ll be using wordpress as a new blog platform. thanx a lot!
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 01:06
ohh… I wish the Ajax Comment Posting plugins could work with WordPress 2.8.4 :(
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 15:57
Hi, what´s the name a the comment service for wordpress almost like disqus that just opened recently and has lots of impressing features? The name was kind of like “heat” or “Shine” or so – I can´t find the site any more…
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 15:09
This is totally awesome and so helpful.
Thanks for taking the time to put this all together.
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 09:43
Thanks, that was a very useful collection of plugins. I do use CommentLuv, and that has proved to be very useful. There are a few others here that I will be investigating.
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 02:12
Nice collection, Dainis. I especially like the look of Quote Comments and SEO Super Comments. It’s hard to keep up with new plugins being made available so posts like this are very handy.
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 00:28
Oh, thank you soooooo much for this collection of plugins :-) Just that I was looking for at this moment, wonderful!
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 22:50
I thought I had seen every wordpress plugin that existed. Nope! This is a fantastic list and I was very surprised at how many useful plugins I wasn’t aware of. Thanks for collecting these.
BTW I found this on the front page of Delicious.com!
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 23:02
Yeah, the same happens with me all the time ;D I just find new and new sources and it’s never-ending process, but good thing is -there is always something new to learn!
Great to see you passing by here!:)
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 21:16
Nice list of plugins I am definitely going to try out a few of them as I have been looking to enhance the commenting.
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 02:48
I’ve been using Disqus on my blog and for some reason, I think that people automatically don’t trust it, because I find it exceptionally hard to get any comments :P
I wish it could use some of the features of these other plugins and still use diqus itself.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 17:50
ahah just discovered thanks to a friend that my name appears in number 14 :P
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 16:40
Uniquely in this list should be plug-in – “Math Comment Spam Protection”
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 15:17
Wow just found this site your information is great. Thanks a lot for writing.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 13:55
very good collection with fantastic wordpress plugins. thanks for the work
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 20:04
Thank you very much for the amazing list.
I was wondering if it would be possible, in your next post, (“I am thinking about WordPress comment section hack roundup article”), to show ways of combining the functionality of some of the plugins presented here. (Is that possible at all???)
Thank you,
Titus.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 12:41
Hello, thank you very much, this site is bookmarked ;o) greetings from Switzerland!
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 00:38
Greetings from Latvia! Thanks, great – I hope to see you back here soon:)
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 11:53
Nice post… always nice to know some new ones and try them out. Thanks!
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 10:58
Wow, that’s quite a mouthful! :) Thanks for reviewing all these plugins. Really helpful!
Get The Only Freelancer crash course you will ever need!
If not, then it's time to learn how to:
You can trust 1stWebDesigner to help you become a better web designer!
- Jacob Cass | Just Creative
Just enter your name and email below and click Get Updates!
E46
Sunday, June 19th, 2011 02:35
Great list, I am going to have to get some of these added to my website and see how they work thanks for the article
Aaron
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 19:02
Hello my friend! I wish to say that this post is awesome, nice written and include approximately all significant infos. I would like to see more posts like this .
Glen
Thursday, July 21st, 2011 13:37
How i got animated comments field….. !! Got me help plz…..:-)
TreTans
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 17:48
Great Plugin.. Like This.. ;)
Logan
Sunday, July 10th, 2011 20:32
Wow! Thanks for wonderful info
Darmazie
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 03:33
Very Suberb collection share guys :D
Nomi
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 12:01
This publication rocks. Thanks for the valueable information.
Raheel
Sunday, November 6th, 2011 13:11
Thank You friend… Its very helpful.
Cheap Flights to Auckland
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 14:42
I was searching this kind of instructive blog for long time.
john mista
Monday, October 31st, 2011 18:34
Good info. Thanks. Keep up the quality posts.
Sam Hanrey
Friday, November 11th, 2011 08:27
Building links through blog commenting is not bad as long as you are picking up something while giving something in return when you post. Doing SEO is just like joining a community of people who are doing marketing either for themselves or for others.
Addison Wesely
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 11:38
Thank you admin. I really enjoyed this post and all these plugins. Please keep informing us. Good work. Cheers…..
kishore
Sunday, November 20th, 2011 09:59
Recently I have installed one plugin for spam protection and installing the plugin my site got hacked. In fact all my sites on my server space got hacked and the plugin is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/captcha/
Don’t install that plugin, i think it may contain vulnerability which causes the hacker to get control of our server. He also put his google adsense code in my site which replaced my ads.
Dave
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 14:09
Thnx for the heads up!
Addison Wesely
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 11:40
Thanks a lot admin. It was much helpful article for me being a new user.
charlies
Monday, November 28th, 2011 19:40
Disqus is a very nice plugin ,I like it
thank you for sharing this
Reza
Monday, October 17th, 2011 14:07
Thanks for the post. I’m going to try out the Quotes Comments Plugin.
Larry
Sunday, October 16th, 2011 16:42
Great post about WordPress plugins to improve your WordPress comments. I was using the free commentluv plugin, and almost bought the premium version during their product launch, but the commenluv plugin only increased the amount of spam I received. I am looking for a way to get some more peeps to comment on my blog. Your post helped me with some ideas. Thanks.
Abhinav
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 18:35
I liked most the comment form this site is using :) which one is this?
Adam
Thursday, September 15th, 2011 09:43
Hey, You’ve done a fantastic job. I should absolutely reddit it and I’ll recommend to my friends. I am sure they are going to be benefited from this website.
Craig
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 03:41
I sort of discovered your blog site by mistake, but your web site caught my attention and i also thought that I’d post to show you that I like it.
Danny
Monday, October 3rd, 2011 13:29
Thx for listing…dont know what i was gonna do without akismet :D
Arafin
Saturday, October 15th, 2011 22:06
1st of all @ Graveris tnx a ton man. This is the best informative article on wordpress comment plugin i have ever found on internet. This article helped me to choose best comment plugins for my blog.
Giles Wells
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 05:44
I found a lot of useful comment plugins. Thanks for making this post Dainis. What comment system is used on this site if you don’t mind me asking? :)
Rean John Uehara
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 07:18
If I’m not mistaken we’re now using the default WordPress commenting system, with some tweaks. :)
christian
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 12:10
Hi,
thx for this great List of Plugins!
I use SEO Super Comments and this Plugin is ok BUT what I really miss is – Own titles and meta descriptions.
What I now have are some news sites in index, but all with same title and descriptions….
Christian
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 05:58
I am so glad this internet thing works and your article really helped me. Might take you up on that home advice you.
webtimi
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 17:31
Many thanks to you I’ve corrected my mistake