10 Wordpress Plugins To Enhance Your Comment Section

Posted in Freebies | On 22nd December 2009 | 8 Comments

Your blog’s comment area is an important part of your blog, it allows users to contribute whether it be to praise your article or to add suggestions you might have missed out and improve what your article offers.

The Wordpress comment system is pretty good all by itself, but there are numerous plugins which can take it that little bit further and really get users involved, such as Open Id for example, as they don’t have to leave details or register.

I have listed 10 great plugins to enhance your comments section, included is ratings, addons and plugins to make your comments section more interactive.

WP Ajax Edit Comments

OpenID

@ Reply

Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering

Comment Rating

CommentLuv

Easy Comment Uploads

Quote Comments

Tango Smileys Extended

Disqus

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8 Comments

  • Anne @ b6s.net
    December 22, 2009

    Commentluv is definitely my favorite – why don’t you install it here? Also, a dofollow plug-in is a good way to encourage commenters IMO.

    I don’t like Disqus btw – too cumbersome.

  • McBonio
    December 22, 2009

    Thanks for the input Anne, Webm.ag is soon to have a new look and we are looking at improvements, we will definitely take your comment on board :)

  • Erik Shultz
    December 23, 2009

    There is nothing better than comments on your blog. I know I get excited. Great collection. I will have to check a few out over the long holiday!

  • Samuel Folkes
    December 23, 2009

    Two more awesome comment plugins:

    WP Twitip ID – Adds an additional field in the comment form which allows users to enter their Twitter username http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-twitip-id/

    GeoSmart – Displays the location of each commenter beside their name. Also displays a google map showing the distribution of the commenter across the world and the flag of the country each commenter is from. It also has a recent visitors map widget.
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geosmart/

  • McBonio
    December 23, 2009

    @Erik yeah its great getting comments, often people add some fantastic feedback or offer more resources, much like Samuel has done above this comment (thanks for the links Samuel :) )

  • joyoge bookmark
    December 31, 2009

    useful plugins, thanks for the list..

  • Blogs
    February 10, 2010

    Thank you for your help!

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