15 Plugins to Make your WordPress Comment System Better

How would you like if your blog posts doesn’t gets any readers voice? That is no one comments on it? Wouldn’t you be disappointed? The problem could be that your Comment System is not very interactive or beneficial for readers.

There are actually many ways with which you can improve your wordpress comment system and thus can increase the chances of getting more and better comments on your blog. In this post, I will be sharing 15 very popular wordpress plugins which can surely make your wordpress comment system look more interactive and beneficial.

1. WordPress Threaded Comment:

WP Threaded Comment is a very popular plugin which enables your blog readers to comment on the existing comments thus making the comments appear in a threaded(nested) way. From your Admin panel you can choose various things like whether or not to send the notification email on new reply comments, how everything should look, maximum nested comment level etc.

2. DoFollow:

DoFollow is a simple one click plugin which removes the “no-follow” attribute from your comments and thus making it Do-follow. This helps in providing Link Juice to your commentators as Search Engine will count the links in the comments made by your readers. Try this, It will surely boost your comments as this is the new trend around blogosphere.

3. Top Commentators Widget:

The Top Commentators Widget plugin helps you add a widget in your blog which shows the top commentators name. There are many options to choose in this plugin like to exclude some name, links and e-mails, Option to make the name’s hyper-linked or not, should the plugin add “no-follow” attribute in the list etc.

4. Comment Luv:

Comment Luv is a very interesting plugin as it grabs the feed of the commentator URL and shows a selection of latest article which they can choose to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit button. This has proven very important and useful in generating more comments on a blog and interactive for the readers.

5. Keyword Luv:

Keyword Luv let’s your readers enter their favorite keyword for which they are optimizing their blog. The keyword appears just after the name and the the keyword is hyper-linked with URL provided by the commentator. This helps the commentators blogs rank better for their keyword with the improved anchor text for their comment.

6. Subscribe To Comments:

Subscribe to Comments is also a very popular plugin which helps your readers get notified via email whenever a new comment is made on the article on which they commented and are subscribed. This plugin provides a simple check box below the comment box and if the commentators ticks it then he gets subscribed to the list.This encourages readers to come back and take part in the conversation.

Well if you have already installed WP Threaded Comment then you might not feel installing as the feature is available in it but let me clear one thing that Subscribe to Comments plugin also provides the list of e-mail address and post on which the readers are subscribed to the comments which is not available in WP Threaded Comment.

7. Comment Relish:

Comment Relish could help prove a very important plugin as it sends a thank-you email to yours blog first time commentators. The message can be changed according to you. This encourages them to come back again and comment regularly i.e they might become your regular reader.

8. WP Ajax Edit Comments:

Humans can make mistakes and WP Ajax Edit Comments helps solve and edit this mistake. Whenever after commenting, your readers feels that he should not have said what he commented or he should have added something more to the comment or he realized typo mistake or some error then this plugin helps them to edit their own comments for a period specified by the Admin. This plugin can help reduce typo mistakes on reader comments and at same time encourage more comments from them.

9. Highlight Author Comments:

Sometimes your readers feels to read only the author comments. Mostly this happens when you write some kind of tutorial or something like that. That time it should be easy for the readers to find your comments and that’s the aim of the Highlight Author Comments plugin.

As it is clear by name, this plugin highlights the post author comments in distinctive style with no need to edit your template files, etc. All you do is provide a snippet or two of CSS styling to be applied to author posts.

10. Comment Quick Tags:

Comment Quick Tags is very useful plugin as it adds a handy toolbar near the comment box. This toolbar consist easy to use tags like bold, italics, quote and other such simple tags. This provides the choice to your commentators to present their comments in a very beautiful and proper manner.

11. Custom Smilies:

Custom Smilies enables the commentators to make use of smilies easily from the toolbar situated near to comment box. After installing the plugin you can choose or add smilies on your own which you want to appear in the toolbar. This will provide a very usefull interactive feature to your readers.

12. Tiny MCE Comments:

Tiny MCE Comments is a really very powerful plugin as it changes the ordinary comment box into a fully featured rich text editor or What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Editor. That means your commentators gets the functions like available to the author. It will surely make the comment box more interactive to use with the availability of such features.

13. WP Gravatars:

WP Gravatar is very simple to use plugin which adds the required field to your comment section to show up the Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or Favico.ico images with your comments. There is now no need to find any code and do replacing and blah blah. Just Activate this plugin and it’s done.

There is one new similar kind of plugin on which we talked few days back i.e Twittar from SmashingMagazine which adds the Twitter avatars in the comment section by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email address and if the user doesn’t have twitter then it shows up Gravatar.

Your Commentators will surely love to see their Avatars on your blog.

14. OpenID Comments:

OpenID Comments plugin let’s your readers comment with their openID Identity thus they can make comments by logging with their Google Account, FaceBook Account, Blogger Account, Yahoo Account, WordPress Account or any other OpenID’s.

15. Twitip ID:

Twitip ID is also getting popular amongst bloggers. This plugin adds an extra input field in comment box where people can add their Twitter username. Then this plugin outputs the twitter profile URL after submitting the comment. This helps your readers to share their twitter profileon the blog and gets chance to increase their followers.

These 15 plugins are very usefull to make your wordpress comment sytem much interactive and useful for your readers. Therefore, try it and feel the change it brings to your commen system.

If you are using any other plugin which have helped you improve the interactivity or benefiits of commenting on your blog then don’t forget to share it with me here by commenting below.


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142 thoughts on “15 Plugins to Make your WordPress Comment System Better”

  1. Hi ,

    Thanks for this great plug-in list.

    I think WP GRAVATAR is a good plug-in for whose want to increase their blog commnets.

  2. Great Post!

    i find your post interesting and i will go and start adding those plugins on my blog. i already have commentluv installed but had little challenges installing keyword luv can you help me a little. i appreciate bro.

  3. I think among those 15 plugins the most common and most effective is the commentluv and top commentators. I’ll keep all of those bookmarked so I can find it easily.

  4. Thanks for the great share. I do also recomend Akismet. If I enable my Dofollow and KeywodLuv, I will recive 100 of comments that are SPAM. You know that its not good and can hurt your site. So act safe. Otherways, it was a very good share.

    I will try out OpenID Comments, so I can add my commentors to my Facebook or Twitter account and soocial with them. 🙂

    Have a great time buddy.

  5. My heart telling me to add Keyword Luv plugin but i am scaring about SPAM.
    Hi Sushant any Plugin to block such SPAM ? Is Akismet a solution ? I need your help. Please reply me asap.

    Now I am a fan of this Blog. You are doing a great job here Sushant.

    Thanks,
    Abhijit…

    1. You can’t completely stop spam. But you can reduce it. I will say Akismet WAS a solution. It is not effective much these days. Try some plugins like Growmap Anti Spam bot. It blocks almost 100% automated spam comments made using some software or bots.

  6. This is a great list of plugins. Is it possible to use many of these plugins simultaneously? Wonder if there would be any fallout from conflicts.

    I suppose it’s a “try and see” to look at what it does to the design.

    Thanks so much for this information!

  7. Wow, This is a great list. Thanks for sharing it here. I was unaware of most of these plugins and the ‘Highlight Author Comment’ was what I found the best. I had to struggle hard with the CSS earlier to achieve this, However from now onwards I will use this plugin. Thanks again for sharing.

  8. Top Commentators Widget gives an added advantage to commentators and I truly believe that they deserve at least that bit of link juice. So I’ve kept only that and rest all plugins like KeywordLuv, CommentLuv I’ve removed. Interestingly Andy is making some good changes in the newer version of CommentLuv which is tempting.

  9. Hi Sushant,

    thanks for a great article. Do you use all of these? Most of them?

    The idea I have is not to have too many plug-ins on my wordpress site to keep it simple and light. What are your thoughts on that?

    cheers,
    Alan

    1. Well, I use only few of them which makes perfect combination. I’m using commentluv premium these days which is like an all rounder plugin and has the capabilities of several plugins mentioned in this post. I would suggest you to use only those which best fit’s your blog’s theme and readers and will encourage them to comment more…

  10. Hi, I am very much thankful to read this post. My blog could not accept comments. I do not know why. And I am not familiar with WP comment system yet. Please help. Thank you. How to put CommentLuv in WP?

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