Better Comments Manager – Wordpress Plugin release
Update: TODO list for Better Comments Manager. Thanks to Arpit for the suggestion.
Add AJAX support to the reply to comments from Better Comments Manager PluginThis will be released in version 1.1 Version 1.2 is now available and it includes support which allows you to reply to the comments without loading a new page. Also shows posts title instead of the view link. You can get it here.
I switched to Wordpress about a month ago from Joomla and I absolutely love it. While I was using Joomla I used to create customized mambots, modules and components for my site. Now its turn to give all wordpress users a new plugin.
After the move to Wordpress I had started getting quite a few comments and to reply to them I had to always visit the post and reply from the comments form. This started to become more painful as I wanted to reply to all comments but they were across multiple posts and this made my task of replying to comments a bit difficult.
Then it came across to me that why not have a plugin where I could simply reply to the post from within the comment managing screen, that’s when the idea for Better Comments Manager came to my mind.
I am proud to release my first Wordpress plugin to all users. Hope you like it and can put it to good use.
What is Better Comments Manager?
Better Comments Manager is an extension of the default Wordpress comments manager. I have added two new features to the default Wordpress Comments Manager.
- Reply to comment from within Wordpress Admin Panel.
- View All Comments based by posts.
Ok so you don’t notice anything different than the default comment manager, have a look at this image 
Now you see in addition to the normal tasks for a comment, there are two new links one which says Reply and another which says View all.
Features Explained
1. Reply to comment from within Wordpress Admin Panel.
The title says it all, you can reply to every individual comment from within the Wordpress Admin so you do not have to go to individual posts to reply to comments.
Here are few screens which take you through the Reply to comments feature.
Clicking on reply links takes you to a page where you can reply to the comment.
Just enter your reply for the comment and click on Reply to Comment. That’s it the comment will now appear on the post and you didn’t even have to visit the individual post to reply to the user.
Now isn’t this a handy feature. This definitely helps me to interact much better with my readers.
2. View All Comments based by posts.
This is a goodie which I thought should be a part of this plugin, it simply lets you view all the comments based on a particular post. So if you want to see the reactions for a particular post only then you can simply click the View All link in the Better Comments Manager.
This feature helps me track all comments for a particular post and makes organizing comments more better.
Installation
Installation is simple. Just unzip the “better-comments-manager” folder into your plugins folder and activate the plugin. From there, you and your users should be able to edit comments you should be able to edit comments and interact better with your users.
Requirements
Wordpress 2.x and above
Usage
Once you are logged into the Wordpress admin panel, clicking on Comments link will show a sub menu called Better Comments Manager, clicking on that link will allow you to use the features described above.
ChangeLog
- Version 1.0 released Sunday, May 13th 2007
License
All files and their contents are licensed under the General Public License(GPL).
Support
If you feel this plugin has helped you can leave a small donation towards further plugin development.
Download
Download Better Comments Manager v1.0 downloaded times
Please note this plugin is still in beta state and may have bugs. If you find any bugs or want to report any problems you have faced please feel free to leave your comments or you can send me a email at wpplugins@techie-buzz.com
keith
May 13th, 2007 at 5:37 pm #
Hey Maki,
Thanks a lot for spreading the news with your readers.
I hope this saves wordpress admins a lot of time.
Keith
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Belinda Reply:
July 29th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Hi-
I have installed this plugin with Wordpress 2x but when I reply to a comment, it doesn’t show up at all…please advise–thanks!
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Debo Hobo Reply:
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:13 am
I am having the same issue.
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ilan Reply:
September 12th, 2008 at 1:59 am
not working for me
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monoros Reply:
October 6th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
not working for me
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kai Reply:
August 13th, 2007 at 3:59 am
great~
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Arpit Jacob
May 13th, 2007 at 5:51 pm #
hey cool plugin man. How about making it Ajax based also the ability to edit the timestamp.
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bob Reply:
November 29th, 2007 at 5:30 am
great idea
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keith
May 13th, 2007 at 6:01 pm #
Hey Arpit,
Thanks for you suggestion, I would definitely incorporate this in the next release.
Thanks
Keith
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Nirmal
May 13th, 2007 at 9:39 pm #
Hey nice plug-in, will definitely use it. I was actually searching for a plugin which can comment from the admin panel. Thanks again
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keith
May 13th, 2007 at 9:42 pm #
Hey Nirmal,
Glad you liked it, I am using the same plugin to reply to your right now.
Cheers
Keith
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Ajay
May 14th, 2007 at 6:02 am #
Great job on the plugin! This is definitely one must have… just a suggestion, if you can hit the reply button and load the form on the same page instead of a new page, then it will be cooler
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Geeko Reply:
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:59 am
just testing the reply.
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keith
May 14th, 2007 at 6:59 am #
Hi Ajay,
Glad you liked the plugin, Yes I will be releasing a update on this sometime mid week which will allow you to reply from within the page itself.
Thanks
Keith
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Dan Reply:
June 25th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Nice…
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Best Airmiles Deals
May 14th, 2007 at 9:08 am #
I’ve been looking for a plugin like this! Thanks so much!
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keith
May 14th, 2007 at 9:13 am #
Hey Best Airmiles,
Glad you like the plugin
Keith
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jester
May 14th, 2007 at 7:22 pm #
I have been looking for something like this forever! Thanks for building it…
I do have an error code that generates when I submit a comment from your reply screen. The comment gets saved and appears correctly on the site but the error pops up and does not send me back to the comments screen.
Here’s the error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/jester/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/jester/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275
Any ideas?
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keith
May 14th, 2007 at 8:50 pm #
Hey Jester,
Thanks for the bug info, I will look into it and fix it, could you please let me know the version of WP you are using and the browser and OS too. It would help me a lot in solving this.
Thanks
Keith
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jester
May 14th, 2007 at 8:55 pm #
Hey Keith, I’m running wordpress 2.1.2 on a hosted server that uses cpanel. Browser is firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac 10.4.9 .
Thanks for looking into it.
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alldoneup Reply:
November 25th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
cool, just testing
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keith
May 14th, 2007 at 9:01 pm #
Thanks for the information. I will try and fix this issue ASAP, I am releasing a newer version this week, which is much more powerful and integrates with another nifty comments plugin.
The bugs are my priority though and will fix it before i release the next version.
Keith
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Jim
May 15th, 2007 at 4:31 am #
This is a really slick plugin. I like it very much.
I’m getting the same error jester is. I’m using WP 2.1.3 on the same type of server (Bluehost, if it matters) with PHP 4.4.4. I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP.
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keith
May 15th, 2007 at 6:45 am #
HI Technobites,
Thanks for the link back.
Keith
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keith
May 15th, 2007 at 6:47 am #
Hi Jim,
Glad you liked the plugin, I am working on fixing the bugs and adding new features, should be released this weekend.
Thanks
Keith
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keith
May 15th, 2007 at 6:48 am #
Hi planetOzh,
Thanks for featuring me this as the plugin of the month.
Keith
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Sumesh
May 15th, 2007 at 7:24 am #
Too many plugins would slow down the blog, ya’ know!
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Patrix
May 15th, 2007 at 9:53 am #
A much-needed plugin. Thanks.
I got the same error as Jester although it works fine.
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Arunn
May 15th, 2007 at 12:08 pm #
great plug-in. works fine without any bugs at my blog.
great job!
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keith
May 15th, 2007 at 12:57 pm #
@Arunn – Thanks I am glad you liked it
@Patrix – Just hold on for I am releasing a ajax version for this plugin, you should love it and i think that error should disappear.
Thanks
Keith
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Rasmus
May 15th, 2007 at 1:57 pm #
I really don’t have anything new to add. I just want to say thank you for writing this plugin. It’s brilliant
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keith
May 15th, 2007 at 2:17 pm #
Hey Rasmus,
Am so glad you liked this plugin, thanks for the compliment.
Keith
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Patrix
May 15th, 2007 at 4:51 pm #
No problemo. Will await the AJAX version and then mention it on my blog. Thanks again.
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Frilo
May 15th, 2007 at 5:52 pm #
Hi Keith,
I have the same problem as Jester’s. Any idea how to solve it ?
Thanks for the plugin anyway.
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keith
May 15th, 2007 at 7:03 pm #
Hey Frilo,
Have solved the problem, releasing a new version in next few minutes.
Keith
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Matt
May 16th, 2007 at 1:30 am #
Thank you for the plugin, it’s just what I’ve been waiting for !
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Kristoffer Forsgren
May 16th, 2007 at 9:30 am #
This is one nifty little plugin!
Installed it as soon as I read about it, already loving it… Great job! =)
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keith
May 16th, 2007 at 10:42 am #
Hey Kristoffer,
Glad you liked it, I have added a ajax feature to this plugin now.
Keith
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Jim
May 16th, 2007 at 11:31 am #
I think you need to update your changelog and version number then, Keith.
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Jim
May 16th, 2007 at 11:37 am #
BTW – the AJAX reply is tight. Exactly the little adjustment that makes this plugin a must-have for every WordPress installation.
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keith
May 16th, 2007 at 11:42 am #
Hey Jim,
Glad you liked it, I have updated the changelog and version and released it at
http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/better-comments-manager-just-got-better.html
Do visit there to see the entire features.
Keith
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jez
May 17th, 2007 at 11:59 pm #
hey, interesting approach, defiantly got to check it out next weekend!
btw. your “else wheres” are broken. they display a “0″.
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keith
May 18th, 2007 at 7:08 am #
Hey Jez,
Glad you liked it
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Thanks for letting me know about the else wheres will fix it shortly
Keith
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Matt
May 18th, 2007 at 7:39 am #
Love the AJAX update ! Thank you.
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keith
May 18th, 2007 at 7:40 am #
Hey Matt, My pleasure
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Rolando
May 25th, 2007 at 1:39 pm #
It installed without any problem, but when I went to the Better Comment option page, it did not load for some reason. Weird.
I’m on WP 2.2 using a custom theme.
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keith
May 25th, 2007 at 2:28 pm #
Hi Rolando,
Thanks for letting me know. Can you let me know a little more about the error, does it have show just the blank screen?
Could you also tell me the Browser version and OS you are using.
Keith
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Lanooz
May 27th, 2007 at 12:37 am #
Since I had updated my wordpress to 2.2 this plugin is out of order. Most people got a problem with it in wordpress 2.2. So..it will be great, if you update this awesome plugin
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keith
May 27th, 2007 at 6:16 am #
Hi Lanooz,
Can you tell me the problems you are facing with WP2.2 I will definitely try and fix them.
Keith
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Lanooz
May 28th, 2007 at 11:50 am #
Instead of showing me a comment that I posted via this plugin it’s breaking up this whole page. And the error 404 appearing in the part of admin panel.
Here’s the screenshot
click
Yes, this page that is appearing that’s the error 404.
(and in default: click)
And of course, it doesn’t post any comment.
Regards,
Lanooz.
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Lanooz
May 28th, 2007 at 11:51 am #
Ouch. Ignore that first paragraph in this comment above, sorry
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keith
May 28th, 2007 at 11:54 am #
Hi Lanooz,
Thanks for letting me know about the problem.
I can see that you are using a customized theme for the admin, I haven’t tested it with customized themes yet. But will do it now.
Can you please give me more details about which wordpress version you are using, the customized theme etc.
Keith
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Lanooz
May 29th, 2007 at 6:03 am #
Newest wordpress version – 2.2
And SpotMilk theme for admin panel.
I think that’s all..?
If there are other things that you would like to know, just tell.
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Jaypee
May 29th, 2007 at 10:46 am #
I’m running WP 2.2 and using the Spotmilk Admin theme and I have no problem with this plugin. There could another plugin that’s causing a conflict.
Btw, great job with the plugin Keith! I like this plugin so much and I just did a review for it here
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keith
May 29th, 2007 at 10:56 am #
Hi Jaypee,
Thanks for the review, I am glad you liked it.
Have a few more features I want to add hope to do it soon, just caught up with work so could not implement it yet.
Keith
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lilian
May 30th, 2007 at 7:25 am #
Hi Keith
Awesome plugin! I use it for two of my sites. One is working but the other is not. I get this message:
Your comment is rejected as your browser’s agent string has changed since you viewed this post.
Hmmm…I can’t figure out why. I am using a modified theme though.
Lilian aka 5xmom
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keith
May 30th, 2007 at 9:03 am #
Hi Lilian,
Glad you liked it. I will have a look at the problem you are facing so that I would be able to help you out.
I will definitely fix this in the next version if I can find out the problem
Keith
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Jaypee
May 31st, 2007 at 9:24 am #
@Keith – You’re welcome! Looking forward to the upcoming features for this great plugin. More power!
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Lanooz
June 1st, 2007 at 4:49 am #
That’s strange. Maybe Japee is right, i could be some plugin fault.
So i will check soon.
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Manas
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:54 am #
Thanks for the plugin …
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keith
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm #
Glad you like it Manas
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Kris Cain
June 6th, 2007 at 12:48 pm #
Great plugin. I will be using this on a couple of sites. I have one question though which was not clear (or I could just be slow
). Does this plugin automatically notify the person via email that there is a reply or do they have to check that box for followup?
Thanks!
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keith Reply:
June 6th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Hey Kris,
Nice question, I have not yet really checked or tested that out, but will definitely do that now and let you know.
Keith
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Mike
June 20th, 2007 at 8:02 am #
Quick question.
How did you get that “Spam protection: Sum of @+@?” in the comments section? I’d like to do that instead of using AuthImage.
Thx, Mike.
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keith Reply:
June 20th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Hi Mike,
I am using a wordpress plugin called Math Comment Spam Protection to do that.
Keith
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cubanresourceful
June 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pm #
Ok, I am wondering, maybe error on my part, but I dunno. When I enable plug-in, not only do I get Better Comment Manager in the Comments tab, but also after the Options tab. Why is this?
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keith Reply:
June 28th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Hi cuban its is not a error it is a feature to make the better comments manager easily accesible
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cyt
June 28th, 2007 at 4:25 am #
I got the following error after activated the plugin:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_enqueue_script() in /home/cytjulia/www/blog/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/better-comments-manager/bcm-edit-comments.php on line 6
any idea what’s wrong? thx a lot
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keith Reply:
June 28th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Hi cyt,
Can you please uninstall and reinstall the plugin once again. If the error does not go away I will help you to resolve the issue.
Keith
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cyt Reply:
June 28th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
thanks Keith,
i reinstalled the plugin many times last night but the problem still exists, would you please help to check what’s wrong with the plugin?thanksthanksthanks~~~~
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Ronald Huereca Reply:
July 1st, 2007 at 5:38 pm
cyt,
What version of WordPress are you using? wp_enqueue_script only works on recent versions of WP (2.1+) I believe.
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keith Reply:
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:53 am
Thanks for the info Ronald, definitely help to fix the issue.
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chase Reply:
September 10th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
I have the same error as well but I am using wordpress 2.0.10
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teodora
July 4th, 2007 at 4:34 am #
tried 1.2 and 1.3 with my 2.01 WP but always get
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_enqueue_script() in /…/bcm-edit-comments.php on line 6
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teodora
July 8th, 2007 at 11:00 am #
hi. i updated WP to 2.2.1 and now it works. It didnt work on 2.0.x somehow.
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Thilak
July 10th, 2007 at 7:56 am #
This plugin is a real life saver, can’t imagine replying to comments without this plugin. Folks from Wordpress should certainly add this feature right into Wordpress.
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keith Reply:
July 10th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Glad you liked it Thilak. Yes this feature should defnitely be in the core wordpress
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Frank
July 18th, 2007 at 2:45 am #
Hello, very nice plugin.
i think, it is better, when you change the link to js-library in bcm-edit-comments.php. Then is it not essential, load the own js-library in plugin-folder. WordPress has the librarys in the folder wp-includes/js/ .
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-includes/js/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/effects.js"></script>
with best regards
Frank
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keith Reply:
July 18th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Hi Frank,
Yes i will be changing that soon. I was unaware of this feature earlier but you learn as you start doing things so will definitely do that.
Keith
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keith
July 18th, 2007 at 8:31 am #
@Nirmal Thanks
@Mr Byte Thanks am glad it saves you a lot of time
@Shankar -Yes its for me too, I upgraded my blog using this itself
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Chris
July 18th, 2007 at 9:25 am #
Amazing plugin. There are only 2 suggestions I have:
1. Remove the top-level menu and replace the old comments page with the “better” one (why have 2?).
2. Integrate with comment e-mail responder.
Great work!
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keith Reply:
July 18th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Glad you liked it. About suggestion 1, I had got lots of requests so that the plugin was easily accesible.
And 2 I will definitely work and release it with the next version.
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José LuÃs Reply:
April 16th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Great plugin, thanks!
About 2: is this plugin integrated with comment e-mail responder already? If not, is there an E.T.A.?
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Val
July 25th, 2007 at 4:06 pm #
I adore the concept of this plugin, but perhaps I either a) did something wrong, or b) I’m not using it properly. I was under the impression that this plugin would add the replies directly below the original comment … right now, it posts my replies at the bottom of the page, which isn’t very useful for me. Am I doing something wrong?
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keith Reply:
July 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Hi Val,
This plugin on its own does not show the comments below the replying comment. You can at anytime use Brian’s Threaded Comments and it will automatically switch to that view when you use the threaded reply to reply to a comment.
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enkysteady
August 10th, 2007 at 10:52 pm #
Got this error code while try to access to better comments manager panel:Fatal error: Call to undefined function: attribute_escape() in /home/enky/domains/regins.cn/public_html/wp-content/plugins/better-comments-manager/bcm-edit-comments.php on line 12“
Don’t know why… Can you help me out?
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Nick
August 20th, 2007 at 1:02 pm #
Fantastic plugin! Thank God for people like you who share their talents with the rest of the world. I will be using the Better Comments Manager every day. I found this through Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger Tips article 5 Comment Management Plugins for Wordpress.
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keith Reply:
August 20th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Thanks nick that you liked it
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keith Reply:
August 20th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Glad that you liked it Nick.
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Jermayn Parker
August 20th, 2007 at 5:58 pm #
Thank you for this plugin mate, heard about if from Pro Blogger and am trying it now
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keith Reply:
August 20th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Jremayn its my pleasure
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Transcriptionist
August 20th, 2007 at 6:03 pm #
Thanx Keith for this great plugin, thanx Darren for blogging it. I was in search of a plugin like this one for a long time but unluckily, it is not working for me. I’m on WP 2.0.2. It is just giving a blank “better comments manager” screen.
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keith Reply:
August 20th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Hi Transcriptionist,
Thanks for pointing that out to me I will try and fix that error and update the plugin shortly.
Keith
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Transcriptionist
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm #
Keith,
Found a similar plugin at digitalramble.com but fell in love with “better comments manager plugin.” Awaiting eagerly for you to come out with a fix.
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Derek Wong
August 24th, 2007 at 10:20 am #
I really like this plugin, but I wanted to ask/let you know that I noticed something in the latest release (1.3). When replying to a comment and manually inputting the html for a link (using the complete anchor link, text, etc), it seems to affect the creation of the first javascript link (the edit link). For some reason, it seems to choke on the addslashes function call in bcm-edit-comments.php line 175. It correctly creates the link with the comment content up until the href in the anchor tag, but then improperly outputs all subsequent comment text.
I only looked at it briefly, but I’ll try to look some more and let you know.
Let me know if this is known and/or anything that I can do to help. Thanks again!
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subcorpus
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:39 am #
this looks like a good plugin …
installing now …
will check back if i run into any troubles and need help … hehe …
thanks for sharing …
appreciated …
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Larry
September 8th, 2007 at 6:11 pm #
I’m using Better Comments Manager version 1.3 and I’m having problems when I use html within the comment. Any comment that has html in it, like a link, I can no longer edit the comment with the Better Comments Manager. Here is an example of what I’m getting on the line where the date and time should be displayed:
Sep 8, 12:25 PM — [ board minutes. I see that two people on the board that voted against rule changes are up for reelection. Please let your votes reflect how you feel about this issue.')" id='441'>Edit | Delete | Unapprove | Approve | Spam | Threaded Reply | New Reply | View All | Technically Legal? ]
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OHR
September 10th, 2007 at 5:07 pm #
anyone knows if there is a ruby version
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Matthew Loh
September 11th, 2007 at 8:11 am #
Nice little plugin that makes managing my comments that little bit easier!
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Sherry
September 20th, 2007 at 7:04 pm #
Thank you for this wonderful Plugin of WP!
I followed the steps and activate the plugin, but the [Reply] button doesn’t work at all and there came out a “Better Comment Manager” Tab along with Dashboard, Write, Manage and other tabs….
Any information or assistance will be very much appreciated!!
Thank you!!
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canarkadaÅŸ
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:48 am #
Thanks..
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Anna
September 24th, 2007 at 8:15 pm #
Hi. I am having a problem with the reply button. When I reply and enter the reply the screen goes blank and say preview true. Did I forget to do something? I have 1.3 version and WP 2.1.2 Thanks for your help. anna http://www.green-talk.com
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keith Reply:
September 25th, 2007 at 7:47 am
@Anna upgrade to the latest version 1.4 in that I have fixed the bugs and you should be able to reply properly.
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JerkyBeef
September 26th, 2007 at 11:26 am #
I’m having issues with the new WP2.3 and v1.4 any suggestions?
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Érico Oliveira
September 26th, 2007 at 1:09 pm #
I would like to know if the new version (1.4) is compatible with Wordpress 2.3. Thanks.
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keith Reply:
September 26th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
It should work fine on 2.3 now, there may be some issues but once I know what they it should work fine. You will get a status to upgrade in your plugins page so that you can upgrade to the latest version hence forth.
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John P.
September 27th, 2007 at 1:50 pm #
version 1.4 has a bug in b-c-m.php. Lines 111 and 115 refer to undefined functions. Change ‘wpau’ to ‘bcm’ and it should work.
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HighTechDad
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:21 am #
I would really like like to say that I love your plugin. It seems that it will offer lots of help to me, once I get an issue worked out. I also use a plugin called “Recaptcha” (which is pretty neat actually – I have written about it here: http://tinyurl.com/ytw8l6 ).
So, Recaptch is a comment spam protection that is visible on my post pages. But, when I use your plugin and try to make a comment, it gets blocked by Recaptcha (saying that I didn’t put in the correct info).
So, is there a way to bypass spam protection within your plugin or can you point to a place in the code where I can put in the recaptcha code so that I can enter in the words allowing me to post?
Can’t wait to try your plugin!
-HTD
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keith
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:49 am #
HighTechDad I am not sure how to help you but will try out the plugin in the combination with re-captcha and fixed the bugs if any
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Stephen Hopson
October 14th, 2007 at 5:29 am #
Is the “Better Comments” plug-in compatible with WP version 2.3?? I am asking because it was not listed on the official WP plug-in compatibility list for version 2.3
Please advise.
Stephen Hopson
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keith Reply:
October 17th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Hi Stephen,
Yes it is compatible with WP 2.3
Keith
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Gio
October 24th, 2007 at 7:11 am #
I’m using this plugin with WP 2.3 but the search feature doesn’t show any results? Also, is the Better Comments Manager tabs supposed to appear twice? It is display at the top level nagivation and comments area?
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Anna
December 25th, 2007 at 12:45 pm #
I am having problems with the recaptcha plug in and this plug in. I can reply but it never shows up. So I contacted recaptcha and they gave me this work around but since I am php challenged and have no idea how to patch anything, I will give everyone the link and hope they know what to do.
I am afraid if I manually add and delete I will mess things up
I did ask for advice and will post what they tell me.
Here was the link:
http://www.coolfactor.org/~gavan/recaptcha.diff.
Any advice?
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R&B Junkie
December 30th, 2007 at 8:54 am #
Hey! I’ve a question, what kind of plugin do you use to make threded comments like this ?! Could you please let me know per mail?!
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Keith Dsouza
December 30th, 2007 at 2:29 pm #
I use Brian’s Threaded comments you can find more info and download it from here http://meidell.dk/archives/2006/12/19/brians-threaded-comments-159/
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nakliyat
December 30th, 2007 at 7:38 pm #
Thx For This Pluginn
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Samuel
January 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm #
Hi Keith!
Thanks for your great plugin!
Are you planning to add locale support (for translating into another languages) for the next version?.
It will be great!
In fact, I’m planning to make a spanish translation for the current version, but I’ll not like to make it all over again when new version of BCM gets published
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JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes
February 6th, 2008 at 1:27 pm #
I always thought it was quite the pain to reply to comments and wondered why that ability wasn’t natively in the WP dashboard. Thanks a lot for this very needed plugin!
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J
February 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am #
I use wordpress 2.3 and the latest better comments manager (1.5.1). Whenever I try to reply from the admin panel I get a blank page or go back to the normal comments link. I can do just fine using Minefield (firefox for leopard) but I’m having problems using this with Safari. Do you know how I can fix this?
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zoso
March 19th, 2008 at 1:02 am #
if you got time, please do ajax on wordpress 2.5. thank you.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
March 19th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hey zoso sorry did not get what you meant, can you please elaborate a bit more on this.
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zoso
March 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pm #
in wp 2.5beta the ajax functions are disabled for BCM
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
March 19th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Hey zoso,
I tested the plugin in WP2.5 and it worked fine, I will check with other users though if they are facing any issues.
Thanks for the heads up though if there is any issue I will release a update shortly.
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Lomes Reply:
March 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I’m just about to implement this in 2.5 so hopefully the issue gets resolved (if there IS an issue).
One thing I’ve read is that some plugins will work if they were in a 2.3 installation that is upgraded to 2.5, but not in a vanilla 2.5 install. Something to do with the initial config when you enable the plugin…
Not sure if that’s where the poster having issues is coming from, but might be helpful. Hope to see official 2.5 support soon!
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Beth
March 30th, 2008 at 3:47 am #
I just upgraded from 2.3 to 2.5 on my test d/b, and BCM worked fine!
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Erum
May 6th, 2008 at 11:25 am #
Testing plugin. Thanks!
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Bradford
May 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm #
I’m trying to use Better Comments Manager, but cannot seem to reply to the comments. My error console says that buildReplyForm is not defined. Tested in FireFox and IE. Any thoughts as to what may be causing this? Thanks!
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Hannelore
May 26th, 2008 at 4:27 pm #
Hi, I have tried this plugin, but it does not work with the headpace2 plugin (its not possible to drag and drop the modules).
Thanks anyway!
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lisa
July 19th, 2008 at 1:46 am #
Hi there-
I am hoping you can help me. I just downloaded the plugin…but it says ‘no posts match criteria.’
Recently i imported my blog over from wp.com. All my comments are there in the admin ‘comments’ menu, but NONE are listed on any posts. DO you know how i can fix this and what is causing it? I believe this is why the plug in isnt working yet for me.
Thanks so much!
LL
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Blog for Beginners
July 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm #
If there is one plugin I have certainly missed has to be this Better Comments Manager. I did know about its existence till now. Thank you for bringing such a nice plugin for the community.
Yan
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rap
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm #
This is a really slick plugin.
I like it very much.
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fake air jordans
November 28th, 2008 at 3:37 am #
how cool is this… thanks!
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Steve G
November 29th, 2008 at 6:58 am #
What is the social network plugin you have at the bottom of your articles?
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ariherzog
December 16th, 2008 at 3:43 am #
I’ve used this plugin for several weeks, works excellent! I recently upgraded from WP 2.5 to 2.7, and while I don’t see any problems, I was wondering if you were planning on releasing an update and/or could verify it works with 2.7?
Thanks!
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Rap
December 26th, 2008 at 9:25 am #
how cool is this… thanks!
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Psychedelic
January 7th, 2009 at 5:25 am #
thanks good
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şubesi
January 18th, 2009 at 10:50 am #
I can’t think of an easy way to do that generically, especially given that Wordpress Hashcash can’t whitelist anything, only banlist things it thinks are bad. It would be possible to add this as a special option, though, to drop failing comments into akismet and let it sort it out…
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tayland
January 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am #
I have installed and try. Great plugin thank you.
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PCGazete
January 19th, 2009 at 5:55 am #
Thanks for the plugin
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yulius
February 14th, 2009 at 9:27 am #
great plug in, i need this for my wp blog
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evden eve
February 24th, 2009 at 10:00 pm #
I want to use it – but I have a problem. I secured the /wp-admin/ with a htaccess pass. So I need to enter a pass before I get to the admin-login.
Fine, BUT if I use the Plugin given by you, I need to enter the pass too, but my users of course do not know the pass. How can I get rid of this problem? Any help appreciated.
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Daniel
February 25th, 2009 at 8:48 am #
not working for me
I am using wp 2.71
and error is
“Cannot load bcm-edit-comments.”
somebody can help me please?
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ay-isigi
May 30th, 2009 at 7:06 am #
great idea
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rap dinle
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm #
Thank you for bringing such a nice plugin for the community.
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McLaughlin
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:04 am #
I both love and hate plugins.
I am on the latest version of WP 2.8.2 and the latest version of Thesis 1.5.1 (or 1.5.2 I can’t remember and too lazy to check). When your plugin is active the post edit window has all the text invisible – I can see my text if I CTRL A, but can’t see it otherwise.
Played with all the other plugins because I didn’t want it to be this one.
I’ll be waiting for a new version and hope that my issue goes away.
Thanks for the effort you’ve put in so far.
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