One of the things that make WordPress a great blogging platform is the availability of lots of plugins. Among such things are WordPress comment plugins. As the name suggests, these plugins manage comments and allow you to control and add functions to meet your unique demands. All of these are of course intended to get the most out of the website’s comment system. WordPress however is also great for other types of websites and there are many interesting plugins you can choose from to add nearly any type of functionality.
Here in this article, we have a number of plugins designed and coded to perform different functions within the website’s comment mechanisms. You will plugins that can detect spam, structure and order comments according to popularity and more. Some of these plugins are free, but most of these are premium items. Enjoy!
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Better Recent Comments Widget Pro
This plugin provides an advanced widget that allows you to display your latest comments in any widgetized sidebar. It includes the abilities to display author gravatars, post titles, comment excerpts, human readable time formats, and more.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)
Facebook Plugins, Comments & Dialogs for WordPress
This Facebook Plugins for WordPress is the ultimate and most advanced plugin to integrate Facebook Plugins, Dialogs and Facebook comments into your blog or website. It’s using WordPress shortcodes to make it very simple to add a Facebook plugin or dialog into any blog post or page. The plugins also comes with 4 widgets ready to be customized + a way to automatically add a Like button and/or the Facebook comment system into all your posts and pages.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)
TS Thinkbox – Show Testimonials and Comments
Thinkbox is a simple way to show comments or information from people, staffs, team and clients. Best suited for show client testimonials and show team member information.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)
Automatic Comments – Get the conversation started!
No one commenting on your blog posts? Get the conversation started with the Auto Comment plugin. Auto Comment automatically posts a comment on every new blog like: “Did anyone else see this?”, “Who has experience with this?”, “Has anyone tried this?”, etc.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)
Disqus
With a few quick steps, you can turn your old comment system into a new way to engage your visitors. From small blogs to massive websites, Disqus is the easiest way to build active communities. It’s free to use and works with virtually any type of website.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)
Simple Author Highlighter
Simple Author Highlighter is a simple WordPress plug-in that can customize the color of the author’s comments or any selected users (for example the admins). The installation process is extremely simple and accessible and after install, Simple Author Highlighter can be found in the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Thoughtful Comments
Thoughtful Comments adds advanced front end comment moderation and cool thread and user banning mechanisms.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
OpenID
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.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
CommentLuv
Reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts.
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MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Sticky Comments
This plugin is used to have sticky comments on your blog.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering
Numbers comments sequentially and hierarchically; handles comments which are threaded, paged and/or reversed. Coders can call the function directly.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Minimum Comment Length WordPress Plugin
Don’t you find it annoying when someone comments with just a smiley? Or a “thanks”? On quite a few forums you have to leave a comment with a minimum of 15 characters to be able to comment, but WordPress doesn’t allow you to set such a threshold. The minimum comment length plugins does exactly that.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by Yoast (Free Plugin)
Top Commentators Widget
The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin at Personal Financial Advice, this widget is easier to manage via the control form (no need to edit the PHP file); additional options are also available to make it more flexible.
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MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
WP-Ajaxify-Comments
WP-Ajaxify-Comments hooks into your comment form and adds AJAX functionality – no more page reloads required when validating and posting comments.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Comment Rating Widget
Add on to the Comment Rating plugin. Display ratings along with the most recent comments in the sidebar. Built upon Get Recent Comment widget.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
WP Ajax Edit Comments
Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
IntenseDebate Comments
IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
SEO Super Comments
SEO Super Comments turns your comments into new pages.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Quote Comments
Creates a little quote icon in comment boxes which, when clicked, copies that comment to the comment box wrapped in blockquotes.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Basic Comment Quicktags
Displays bold, italic, add link and quote buttons on top of the comment form.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
MSMC – Redirect After Comment
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
One Click Close Comments
Conveniently close or open comments for a post or page with one click. From the admin listing of posts (‘Edit Posts’) and pages (‘Edit Pages’), a user can close or open comments to any posts to which they have sufficient privileges to make such changes (essentially admins and post authors for their own posts). This is done via an AJAX-powered color-coded indicator. The color-coding gives instant feedback on the current status of the post for comments: green means the post/page is open to comments, red means the post/page is closed to comments. Being AJAX-powered means that the change is submitted in the background without requiring a page reload.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Subscribe To Comments Reloaded
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded allows commenters to sign up for e-mail notifications of subsequent replies.
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MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Sitewide Comment Control
When you run a network, blacklisting commenters is handled per-site. That’s normally okay, but sometimes people decide to be trolls and spam your whole network. This plugin allows you to ban, spam or moderate an unregistered commenter network wide
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Live Comment Preview
Live Comment Preview (LCP) allows your users to see how their comment will appear on the site as they type it. It uses client-side Javascript only (no Ajax requests to the server) which means a responsive, smooth, live comment preview.
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MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress
Asks commenters to complete a simple CAPTCHA if Akismet thinks their comment is spam. Eliminates false positives.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Akismet
Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
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