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Better Comments Manager – WordPress Plugin release

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Update: TODO list for Better Comments Manager
Add AJAX support to the reply to comments from Better Comments Manager Plugin. Thanks to Arpit for the suggestion. This 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.

  1. Reply to comment from within WordPress Admin Panel.
  2. 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-managerfolder 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

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  1. Steve G on November 29th, 2008 at 6:58 am #

    What is the social network plugin you have at the bottom of your articles?

  2. ariherzog on 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!

  3. Rap on December 26th, 2008 at 9:25 am #

    how cool is this… thanks!

  4. Psychedelic on January 7th, 2009 at 5:25 am #

    thanks good

  5. ÅŸubesi on 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…

  6. tayland on January 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am #

    I have installed and try. Great plugin thank you.

  7. PCGazete on January 19th, 2009 at 5:55 am #

    Thanks for the plugin :)

  8. yulius on February 14th, 2009 at 9:27 am #

    great plug in, i need this for my wp blog

  9. evden eve on 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.

  10. Daniel on 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?

  11. ay-isigi on May 30th, 2009 at 7:06 am #

    great idea :)

  12. rap dinle on July 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm #

    Thank you for bringing such a nice plugin for the community.

  13. McLaughlin on 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.

  14. Douglas Bonneville on January 12th, 2010 at 5:44 am #

    This does not seem to work with Safari. I lose my comment when I hit publish and I can't get it back. I've gotten stumped by that several times…Works great in Firefox but beware of Safari!

  15. Infographiste on January 30th, 2010 at 8:44 am #

    Nice plugin mate, I will definitely use it for some of my customers. I was actually looking for a plugin which can comment from the admin panel. Thanks again and have a great week end!

  16. Tioman on May 8th, 2010 at 9:26 am #

    Hah..never thought of this one before, since the only commentors in my blog are spammers :)..Btw, thanks for sharing and I'm gonna download it straight away..

  17. Hitesh on June 7th, 2010 at 11:28 pm #

    Love the plug-in but I ran into an issue. Somehow, the button gets pulled into the RSS feed as well which breaks some things on a site where we syndicate the feed. Is there any way to ensure that the button/functionality does NOT appear within an RSS feed? Perhaps a toggle in a future version.

  18. rap on August 23rd, 2010 at 7:27 am #

    Thank you for bringing such a nice plugin for the community

  19. Nobuji on April 12th, 2011 at 9:31 pm #

    Hi, I just installed this software but got a problem. The replies that I put on each comment appear only at the top of all other comments, not the original comments. Does anyone know what this problem is? Do you know how to fix it? Thanks.

  20. More Shopping on July 18th, 2011 at 9:56 pm #

    I am sorry, that has interfered…

    This situation is familiar To me. Is ready to help.

  21. Zahnarzt Wiesbaden on September 8th, 2011 at 8:44 am #

    Hey,
    I’ve got a small problem. When I try to do a reply my answer to a random comment gets added to my original article.. I tried to reinstall the plugin but the problem is the same..

    Thanks in advance

  22. Ali on July 18th, 2007 at 6:46 am #

    what a wonderful plugin!

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