More WordPress Plugins To Increase Comments On Your Blog
ADVERTISEMENTSFew days back I had mentioned the Top 5 WordPress plugins that help increase comments on a blog. Here are some more plugins that can help.
- WP Ajax Edit Comments: This plugin (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the Admin, and Admins can edit all post comments. This plugin can help reduce typos on reader comments and at same time encourage more comments from them.
- Get Recent Comments: This highly configurable plugin displays the most recent comments in the sidebar. You can make the plugin to link the recent commenter’s site along with an excerpt of their comment. Linking to the commenter’s site can encourage them to comment even more.
- Live Comment Preview: This plugin will display a live preview of your readers comments as they type. To install the plugin, just activate it!
- Comment Quicktags: This plugin inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form that will help your commenter’s to easily make thier comment in bold or italics, or to insert links.
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MyAvatars: This plugin displays the reader’s MyBlogLog avatars besides their comments. This may not help in increasing comments much, but readers may like seeing their avatars on your blog
Do you know any more plugins that can help increase comments?
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Posted on May 11th, 2007 | Category: WordPress Plugins |
wildbluff_matt
May 12, 2007 at 12:04 am
The “Edit Comments” plugin is great. We’ve been using it for a few weeks now without issue. Several readers/commentators requested some way to edit mistakes after hitting Submit and this does the job perfectly. Highly recommended.
Shivaranjan
May 12, 2007 at 12:07 am
Thanks for these tips John I hope to bring back life to my blog with these valuable comments.
Online Technology
May 12, 2007 at 12:18 am
I like the comments quicktags as they reduce the time to comment.
Myavtar comment can be a killer for your blog. It slows down the pageload and can overload your host cpu.
Get Recent Comments can be useless if placed on sidebar.
WP Ajax Edit Comments can be little useful but ppl dont put so much of effort. But good for corrections.
Napolux
May 12, 2007 at 1:00 am
Thanks for the link..
JS & image retrieving is heavy for the blog, but I’m working on a better version: stay tuned…
Pallab
May 12, 2007 at 1:24 am
I use WP Ajax Edit Comments, WP Ajax Edit Comments and LMB^Box Comment Quicktags. In fact I recommended them on my blog too a couple of days ago.
Instead of MyAvatars I use gravatars. But, mybloglog seems to be more popular than the gravatar service nowadays, so I plan to switch sometime soon.
Pallab
May 12, 2007 at 1:28 am
Bah. I goofed up in my previous post. And had js disabled so couldnt edit.
I meant WP Ajax Edit Comments, Live Comment Preview and Comment Quicktags. I had recommended them in my article Top Five Little Known Wordpress Plugins. But, now since you have blogged out it, most of the people would come to know about it
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May 12, 2007 at 2:08 am
looks like i ve to start a new wordpress blog to get advantage of John’s wordpress posts
listikal
May 12, 2007 at 3:16 am
I’m not using any of these John, thanks! I was going to ask what was used for the automatic display of what you’re typing. Thanks!
egon
May 12, 2007 at 3:55 am
Some of these just seem like cool features, but I don’t think they would increase comments much. I do really like the comment preview though.
Roberta
May 12, 2007 at 6:54 am
I think this was the site where I saw the live comment preview first. This is a nifty little plugin, I’ve downloaded both this and comment quick tags. Thanks for the tip!!
Grace
May 12, 2007 at 7:53 am
Those are great features! but the comment quicktags plugin doesn’t seem to work on my blog when I downloaded it!
Pallab
May 12, 2007 at 8:05 am
If the version John is offering is similar to the one I use, then you would need to add a line to the comments.php file.
The code should look something like this
The second line is the line where you need to insert the code to include the quickcodes box.
Nirmal
May 12, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Nice list John, I would like to have Ajax comments also which will reduce the time required to submit the comment. Its easy to install also.
Online Technology
May 12, 2007 at 2:16 pm
: We all will be waiting for your upgrade
DotNetNuke
May 12, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Edit comments feature is useful, because sometimes, we accidentally post incomplete comments, wanna edit existing ones.
phd
May 12, 2007 at 7:21 pm
hmmm, the myavatar plugin does’nt seem to work on my site. the preview comments is great!
Kesh
May 12, 2007 at 9:46 pm
hi JohnTP..is der no any useful widgets for blogspot???
Ron
May 12, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Oh, now i know how to display the avatar beside a comment… This very helpful John.
Thank’s
Madhur Kapoor
May 13, 2007 at 5:13 am
I would have loved to install the MyAvatar plugin but unfortunately it increases the page load .
Grace
May 13, 2007 at 6:39 am
egon- I think the same too. They enhance features and everything, but increasing comments doesn’t sound like their job.
subhash
May 13, 2007 at 2:33 pm
John on how many top commentators blogs do u leave comments for their posts ?? I never saw u commenting on your top readers blogs….do u find them uninteresting ???
ploop
May 14, 2007 at 2:59 am
You are certainly practicing what you preach. Your site has become very sticky for me as I’ve already added two of the plugins you sugggest and will be coming back for more advice.
Cheers,
Ploop
Rhys
May 15, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I use the “favicon puller” rather than the mybloglog one, I find it less intrusive.
Vince Cordic
May 16, 2007 at 2:03 am
Hmm, I havn’t tried any of these yet, I do like the preview comment plugin, might give that one a go. It doesn’t seem to handle line breaks properly though.
Steve S
May 19, 2007 at 4:53 am
The avatar thing is really cool. I have found the Favicon thing a little difficult to use.
2 BROS BLOGGING
May 19, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I’d say the Top Commentators plugin generates more comments.
Husbandhood
May 22, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Hmmm…. I noticed you are not using the recent comment plugin. Its a good way to increase comments as visitors can see which post is getting the latest comments. And people get traffic everytime they post a comment.
Alex
May 24, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I was looking for Quicktags plugin for a while
Thanks for sharing it.
Kyle Eslick
June 1, 2007 at 6:26 pm
MyAvatar is a great Wordpress plugin because it allows users to make their comments easily indentifiable with a quick glance.
I love subscribe to comments, but MyAvatars is a close second!
What is your opinion on the threaded comments plugin (which allows you to reply to individual comments)?
Angelo
June 19, 2007 at 4:19 am
Great plugin, thanks
See my blog
http://www.adivorblog.com
Larry
July 16, 2007 at 12:58 am
Thanks for the great list. I will try to use some of them.
This may sounds out of topic, but I’ve been search searching “Related Articles” plug in. I really like that one.
Can someone help me please?
satya
August 30, 2007 at 3:45 pm
perhaps the button for link in the comment quick tag is not working. All others r working fine.
marney
October 27, 2007 at 4:11 am
Do you know how to add Avatars to initial postings and not just limited to those who make comments on the post?
Tino
December 13, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Hi,
The comment quicktags plugin that you mention here brakes themes layouts. I have found a modified version which worked great for me!
http://www.enblogopedia.com/wo.....-reloaded/
Kevin
December 24, 2007 at 6:15 pm
The best plugin by far is the All-in-one SEO plugin that’s available now in the wordpress site. Does everything you need re: meta tags and title headers, even if you don’t know anything about design or seo.
Nan
January 4, 2008 at 1:59 am
I just came across your blog a couple of days ago and am very impressed with the excellent information. I’ve installed several of the plugins you suggest in hopes of generating more comments. Of course, first I have to get the visitors.
Jenny
January 9, 2008 at 12:03 am
I don’t know if these increase comments…
Chan
January 13, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I’ll give it a try..