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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.
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Monday, December 26th, 2011 10:43
It a best graphics design, web development company in Bangladesh.
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 09:23
Is there any comment plugin which allows to share made comment on social networks?
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 09:14
Thanks for sharing this wonderful article. I use it as my reference on my school paper.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 14:13
There are 2 more plugins that I think should be added to this list.
1) Sweet Captcha – this is by far the cutest and most fun captcha out there and it also makes the bots go away without much hassle for the real users (like reading those distorted 2 words) :)
2) Jumpple Website Monitor – This plugin monitors your website and makes sure your site is up and other features too, you can also add a seal to your site that says you are securing your website which is always awesome.
What you think of the new wordpress plugin directory look? I just noticed they changed the entire design
Monday, December 19th, 2011 06:49
I was only aware of IntenseDebate so will now check some of the others. Thanks!
Saturday, December 17th, 2011 08:13
“Comments” “Post Your Comment” “Comment Title” “Your Website”Very well said!!!!! like
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 15:57
Very interesting post since I’m looking for a way to encourage my readers to comment more and more often.
A far as I see, the Subscribe to Comments do the job.
I need to give those others plugins a try.
Thanks :)
Monday, December 12th, 2011 08:49
Nice research,
Lisa Wed, I read a few things about the Breast Surgery procedures, but haven’t seen it tied together until now. I’m especially interested in the result only. I’m guessing this is to connect potential future attackers with their funding sources.
Sunday, December 11th, 2011 15:19
Disqus is a very nice plugin. I like it. thank you for sharing this. My website worked fine with it. Best regards
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 19:15
Will definitely be trying a few of these plugins.
Thanks man
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 13:45
very nice plugin ,like!!! :)
Thank you very much
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 11:39
I originally didn’t allow comments but I am going to rethink that now after reading this.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 05:02
Finally. Thank you for this. I installed some of these and already see an improvement.
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.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 14:09
Thnx for the heads up!
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 11:40
Thanks a lot admin. It was much helpful article for me being a new user.
Monday, November 28th, 2011 19:40
Disqus is a very nice plugin ,I like it
thank you for sharing this
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…..
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.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 14:42
I was searching this kind of instructive blog for long time.
Monday, October 31st, 2011 18:34
Good info. Thanks. Keep up the quality posts.
Monday, October 17th, 2011 14:07
Thanks for the post. I’m going to try out the Quotes Comments Plugin.
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.
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.
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? :)
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 07:18
If I’m not mistaken we’re now using the default WordPress commenting system, with some tweaks. :)
Monday, October 3rd, 2011 13:29
Thx for listing…dont know what i was gonna do without akismet :D
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Ahmed
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 13:59
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).
damian varyanaddy
Monday, April 25th, 2011 01:59
how can i integrate a disquss coment with my wordpress blog ?
Oliver
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 18:43
I’m looking for something that will allow users to leave comments by signing in through pre-existing accounts (openID, facebook, etc). I’ve looked at disqus and JanRain… anything else?
Tipifam
Thursday, February 10th, 2011 10:39
Will Disqus make my site load slower than before?
Tiki
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 00:42
SEO super comments is just what I’ve been looking for….many thanks for your complete rundown.
cookie
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 18:15
I cannot stand using discus.
sam
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 22:36
I need a plug-in so that guests of my website can post pictures within there comments. I saw video, did I accidentally skip over noticing pictures? any suggestions for plug-ins? thanks
Tharun
Sunday, April 10th, 2011 17:27
Nice collection…Sure was useful ;)
bee
Friday, March 25th, 2011 15:05
Thanks for this great list! I found some new plugins (most of them don’t work with my theme…), but some are just what I was looking for!
helen
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 22:09
Great article. Is there a way to save commenters name and email (maybe by cookie) so as he doesn’t have to write it every time?
Benjamin Isaiah
Friday, May 14th, 2010 00:14
Thanks for sharing this I love your blog
Kevin Irvin
Monday, April 26th, 2010 00:08
Those boat look great, I love to go to the sea in a boat thanks for the article.
willy
Sunday, May 15th, 2011 22:53
I agree on that man!
Joshua
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 21:18
Just what I have been looking for. Thx!
Keith Dsouza
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.
Silencio
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.
Johnson Koh
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 05:14
Oh nice. I love the extended smiley icons :D
Josh Straub
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!
Dainis Graveris
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!:)
Tony
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.
Tracey Grady
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.
Ellen
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!
Gonzague Dambricourt
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 17:50
ahah just discovered thanks to a friend that my name appears in number 14 :P
Titus
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.
Roman
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 12:41
Hello, thank you very much, this site is bookmarked ;o) greetings from Switzerland!
Dainis Graveris
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 00:38
Greetings from Latvia! Thanks, great – I hope to see you back here soon:)
Paul Olyslager
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 11:53
Nice post… always nice to know some new ones and try them out. Thanks!
Alex
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 20:38
Very useful.. Bookmarked.. Thanks :)