Spam comments can be a serious problem. If your site has enough traffic, it’s likely that you experience massive numbers of spam comments getting caught by the spam filters. Occasionally you will need to go through and clear out the spam comments by using the Empty Spam button in the Comments page. If you have…
WordPress has a nice feature in the Comments section that lets you easily edit any comment listed by simply double-clicking on it, which triggers the Quick Edit view. If you edit comments often or simply prefer the action of double-clicking over clicking Quick Edit, this is excellent. I, however, have always been annoyed that WordPress…
One of the best ways to get better are writing plugins is to look at existing plugins and figure out how they work. In this part of Plugin Development 101 we are going to look at the Featured Comments and dissect it line-by-line in order to learn exactly how the plugin works. It is a relatively…
A few months ago, Andrew Norcross, Tom McFarlin and I decided to collaborate on a new plugin that makes it easy to see which comments have not yet been replied to by the post author, and this is the result.
Featured Comments is a great little plugin that lets you easily feature and / or bury comments. The idea is to emphasize comments that you want to stand out and to hide (bury) comments that have little or no value. When featured, comments will get a new “featured” class added to their HTML. When buried,…
I have always thought it was a little odd that the Comments menu in the WordPress dashboard did not have any sub menu items. For example, I think it makes sense to include sub menu items for each of the comment status: Approved, Pending, Spam, and Trash. But since WordPress doesn’t include these, it is…
A collection of 6 powerful WordPress Widgets that will help to super charge your blog. Each of the widgets in this bundle has been built in an effort to provide functionality that is greatly lacking with the default WordPress widgets.
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.
This is one of those plugins that I install by default on every single WordPress site I set up. From the author: 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…
