You can now reply to comments directly!

It’s always difficult to engage in direct conversation in the form of blog comments as you can’t really respond to a comment directly, rather you’ll have to use operators like ‘@commenter’ (probably derived from Twitter) to notify a commenter that you are replying to him.

Thanks to the ‘WP Threaded comments’ by Chinese blog 2i2j, you can now reply to specific comments in a post. There are more popular plugins which does this but this is the most user-friendly one as far as I know as all you need to do is activate the plugin and you are done! Also you can configure if you want to send an email to the commenter if there is a reply to the commenter’s response.

However, I am still not convinced the system is entirely bug free as it’s not the most popular plugin out there though its rating is high in its wordpress plugins page. I tried adding multiple comments to a single comment and more comments to those comments as well and it looks like it’s working fine. I also tried it on IE and it seems alright but I would love to have a larger feedback so please leave a reply below if you have problems when replying to existing comments.

Also there are a few hiccups as well. You’ll need Javascript to be enabled to reply to comments (that’s ok because Google Analytics says 97.5% of visitors have Javascript enabled) and also if you reply to a comment Gravatars and CommentLuv won’t show on that comment. Other than that it’s all good.

Update – I’ve now updated this feature to a better plugin. more info…

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  2. WebWenchGinger June 30, 2008 8:22 am

    Thanks for all the info on this, I think it’s a really handy plugin. :)

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      Dewaji SEO Test reply on January 5th, 2009 12:22 am:

    Test the plugins and hope it’s work here. Because in previous comment I try it. it’s not work

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    Testing the plugin.

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  5. Personal Business September 9, 2008 10:40 am

    I think it is good to be applied on my blog, bu the step should be read carefully. it is frightening for me as non techie people to change the file on cpanel….

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    Thank you for that info, these plugins are really great i loved them.
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  8. flash templates October 30, 2008 1:06 am

    Ya you are right . i am gona to use this plug in. so thanks for the information. and after using it i will tell you how it is.

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      luq reply on October 30th, 2008 6:49 pm:

    Its very useful to create direct conversation within blog posts..

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  9. copcar November 19, 2008 10:28 pm

    definitely valuable information! thank you so much

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  10. iyang December 2, 2008 10:03 am

    Have you found an increase in commenters since installing the plugin?

    You know, the type that seem to be googling the phrase “commentLuv” and then just leaving a comment?

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      luq reply on December 6th, 2008 11:38 am:

    yes, a significant increase actually and as for the quality of comments they are of good value too..of course there’s the usual automated and manual spammnig, if you use a good plugin like akismet or spam karma you should be fine though.

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  11. savings accounts December 3, 2008 4:44 pm

    Thanks for sharing – having tried and implemented them,I think both commentluv and keywordluv are great for bloggers and commenters and bloggers alike – Its also a great way to improve your brand too.

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  13. Acai Berry Reviews January 27, 2009 9:14 am

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  14. Murphy February 7, 2009 7:20 pm

    This will really come in handy for me. Awesome job!

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  15. techo February 9, 2009 6:39 am

    Great posts and good guides.

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  16. Acai Berry February 21, 2009 11:31 pm

    That’s awesome that you can now reply to comments directly here! Can’t wait to see what’s to come.

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    I was looking for this plugin for a long time. Thanks for sharing.

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    I love using this plugin! It is definitely on my list of must-have plugins, along with the all in one SEO.

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  21. cheap computers August 13, 2009 12:23 pm

    I am still not convinced the system is entirely bug free as it’s not the most popular plugin out there though its rating is high in its wordpress plugins page.

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  22. Acai September 17, 2009 6:33 am

    What a great idea, it will be much easier to communicate this way.

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