8 Comment Managing Plugins For WordPress To Manage Comments

by: Mr. Ven 6

Encouraging comments in your wordpress blog is one of the best development strategy in terms of engaging the blog readers. For high traffic blogs, managing the comments will become a major task. Its really tough to filter out the spam comments and to make the readers addiction to comment in your blog. Recently, this blog turned into “dofollow” especially for encouraging comments here. To help bloggers, there are many handy plugins, to make your job similar, in terms of managing comments. Lets see few of those great wordpress plugins…

Better Comments Manager – A plugin which helps you to simply reply to comments, directly from the admin panel. It actually uses Ajax for commenting, so there won’t be any page reloads when you reply.

Subscribe To Comments – Another plugin which helps to bring the commentators back to your blog, by adding option for comment subscription. Upon subscription, when somebody replies to their comment, an email will be sent to notify the subscribed commentator. It has the option to unsubscribe to the comments any time.

Top Commentators Widget – This plugin helps to show the top commentators of your blog in the sidebar. One of the best plugin to encourage comments in your blog because, one who comments more in your blog will get his own URL added in the sidebar. This plugin has the option to change the number of commentators, comment name length, excluding users, periodically resetting statistics etc.

TTC User Comments – A plugin to list down the commentators in your admin panel. It shows you the commentators history like, the last commented date, the last comments and much more. It actually helps to find out who are all not active in the recent time on your blog. If you are more tied/loved to your commentators, this plugin helps you to monitor your loved ones closely.

Akismet Spam Filter – One of the most common and popular wordpress plugin to fight against spam comments. You can’t simply ignore (manually) spam comments, this plugin makes the job simpler, by moving them to spam folder. You could empty the spam folder on single click. Must to have wordpress plugin.

Live Comment Preview – This plugin shows a preview of the comment, while the commentator is entering a comment in your blog. So this gives the smooth live preview of the comment, when somebody adds comments in your blog. Make a note, this plugin uses javascripts.

Interactive Comment Management Plugins.

To encourage comments in your blog, instead of showing the flat model comment box, you could show an interactive widgets. Using Disqus or Intense Debate plugins this is possible to bring in upside down interactive comment widget to your wordpress blog. It has features on the both sides, from the admin point of view, as well as from the commentators point of view. Take a try, you will enjoy !

Managing comments on your wordpress blog is not a tough job, provided you are utilizing the right plugins. There are much more hand full of free plugins, find out, which one suites your need and use it. Lets engage the comment system in your blog.

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