If you are part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge (#BlogBoost), #BlogDaily, #Blog30, or #OurBlog then your goal is to share information and connect with others. Yet, in connecting with others you want to help your commentators without overflowing you with work. So today’s post is about comment plugins.
Akismet
This spam plugin comes installed with WordPress, you just need to activate it. This plugin catches most spam and occasional “ham” these are comments it is not certain are spam. You do not have moderate as much as with out it.
Subscribe to Comments
If your readers like a post, they may like the comments as well. With this WordPress plugin they can subscribe to a particular post and comments and a notice will be sent to their email with each new comment. Then they can unsubscribe to some or all posts when they want.
Top Commentators Widget
This is a plugin that you can add to your widgets in your sidebar. With this the top commentators on your blog are listed each month.
Comment Luv
Share the love with this comment plugin. When they comment on your blog it will add a link to their last blog post. This benefits both of you because people are more likely to comment when their posts show.
WordPress Thread Comment
This allows people to comment on an existing comment. The comments will flow logically instead of being yet another comment.
Most Commented Widget
Rather than show the top commentators this WordPress widget shows a snippet of the most popular post. People can be curious about your most popular post or page and this will show them the one with the most comments.
Disqus
Growing in popularity is this plugin / website. Disqus works with Aksimet and blocks more spam. It incorporates Subscribe to Comments. Threaded comments. The Top Commentators, Most commented, can be added to your widgets as I did today.
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Awesome list. I love CommentLuv.
The Disqus widget is really cool, I may have to give that one a try for my comments.
I also love CommentLuv. I think I have received more hits on my blog from that than almost anything else. It also demonstrates the power of a great title.
I have not used CommentLuv, I think I should try it on one of my blogs…