30 Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks
WordPress needs no introduction in designing field. It usually known as a synonym for blogging. When working on a WordPress blog, your posts often take the important place. However, the comments on the posts are often just as important as they create quality and valuable discussion. on the other hand if you have default WordPress comment box then there is no fun in commenting for readers as well as writers.
It really helpful for you and your visitors if your blog have well managed comment space. In which a reader can find various details about past and present comments which can improve the appearance of comments, and add more value to your posts.
This article focuses on organized collection of Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks which helps you to create a user-friendly interchange between you and your readers.
One of the greatest things about blogging is the immediate feedback a blogger can get from his or her readers. Still it’s often possible that your readers don’t give you a wink about their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, there is no way for you to find out about visitors thinking towards your blog or its design. It always essential to play safe and give others what they like. Out of many solutions the inspirational one is only promising and optimistic way to achieve desired changes. Below we present over 30 excellent WordPress Comments Page Hacks which will definitely make your blogging life easier.
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Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks
A fun part of customizing WordPress themes is designing a comments format which complements the rest of the site. Darrenhoyt has shared his three examples from recent projects, including code samples and downloads to the original .PSDs on ‘Styling Your WordPress Comments’. All of them looks stunning, are you ready to customize your comments template now?
You might want to have alternating row colors for your comments, to make a clearer separation. Alternating rows make it easier to distinguish different comments. Doing this is relatively very easy.
An often-used feature in WordPress blogs is the ability to style comments made by the post’s author differently from the others – helping replies to stand out. Here, are few example of editing the default WordPress to add some subtle styling to author comments.
Have you noticed while visiting some of your favorite blogs that many author comments are styled differently to help the authors comments to stand out? This is something that isn’t overly difficult to implement on your WordPress blog. Kyle at wphacks shows a quick how-to explaining how you can easily adjust your WordPress theme to display different styles for each author.
If your blog posts receive lots of comments then it can be really useful for both you and your readers to number it. Jean-Baptiste shows a simple solution to count comments easily and efficiently.
By default, a typical WordPress blog will display the very first comment at the top of the comments template. But if you would like your WordPress blog to display the most recent comment to be right on top instead of the usual at the bottom of a page, Moses of WPThemesPlugin.com suggested a tricky solution to display recent comments on top.
If you have a popular WordPress blog with good number of comments everyday, then wouldn’t it be nice to be able to display the total number of comments published on your WordPress blog since your blog launch? The kind of stuff advertisers totally enjoy.
Would you like to display the total number of trackbacks you received on your blog. Here is the code that can make it happen. It’s fair very simple and easy to implement.
Sometimes, it can be useful to automatically disable commenting on posts older than X days. In WordPress 2.7 it is a feature but older WordPress does not have any built-in function to do that, but if you still like to do it, here is little help.
Removing the comments section on a blog can sound weird at first because comments are an important part of a blog, but sometimes you just want to spread some news without getting any feedback.
Thousands of blogs show avatars next to their user’s comments. The avatars are a great way to make things more personal and create some variety between the different comments. Over at Pro Blog Design, Michael has written a great tutorial explaining exactly how to add your own default Gravatar image, as well as provide some tips on how to make a good Gravatar default image.
Do you enjoy Twitter? Yes, so what about displaying Twitter avatars in your comments, instead of gravatars? It’s fairly easy to integrates Twitter avatars on your comments.
It displays a link to edit the current comment, if the user is logged in and allowed to edit the comment. It must be within The Loop, and within a comment loop.
Paginated Comments is a WordPress Plugin that gives you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages. You can create pages based on size of comments (so that no page of comments is greater than a certain file size) or you can create pages based on number of comments per page (100 for example). Although Wordpress 2.7 have built-in function to do that.
WP Ajax Edit Comments allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments. It’s a pretty nice feature for a community website or a blog.
Subscribe to Comments is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.
Do you want to display a list of the 10 most commented posts of 2008 to your readers? That’s obviously a great way to give a second life to your old posts.
Comment Validation Hack is first step against spam. The system uses what’s known as a Turing number, named after the mathematician Alan Turing. If you have ever signed up for an e-mail account at yahoo or gone to e-gold’s website, you know what I’m talking about. More info here.
comments.php is meant to be included in a post page, not separately. You could consider this a security measure. Inside the statement, you could insert any message you’d want to be displayed to the person viewing the comments.php file, preferably a die statement.
As title says you can use gravatars to identify your authors. Many blogs have a couple of authors and many times the blogs link and present the author of the respective contribution. Now with this feature you can do a lot more.
When it comes to simpler user experience, having your form validation happen instantly on the same page is a lot cleaner than reloading pages and possibly losing some form content. This tutorial at NetTuts, shows how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.
How many times have you typed up a post and published it, only to wish that you could style that post just a little differently than the others. With the help of post IDs and comment IDs you can style any specific post or comment.
Trackbacks are the messages displayed in the comments list whenever another blog links back to one of your posts. If you use trackbacks on your blog, it is best if they are not mixed with the comments. The comments are a conversation between real people. Having machine-generated links in the middle of that will only serve to disrupt the conversations.
This modification to WordPress prevents unregistered comment authors from using the names or email addresses of the registered authors on your site. It does this by first checking to see if the comment author is logged in. If they are not, it compares their name and email address to the registered author data. If there is a match, the comment is blocked and a custom message is displayed.
Add “reply” and “quote” features on each comment list. If you have jQuery installed on you blog, this Plugin add two link in each comments list (on single page). This plugin can auto include jQuery from Google Ajax API repository.
Gilles Maes at NetTut shows how to display the code that visitors are allowed to use in their comments. It takes only one line of code in comments.php and you’ll simply get a list of the tags that are allowed in your comment.
When a post have lots and lots of comment, it can be hard for your readers to stay on the conversation. Most WordPress users don’t know it, but WordPress have a built-in function for providing rss feed for the comments of a specific post.
For those of you who wish to join the I-Follow Movement and have WordPress blogs on your own domains, good news is that the rel=”nofollow” attribute can easily be removed without the need for additional plugins or software. In fact, it only takes about 5 minutes and one line of code but keep in mind that this can result in increased spam attempts.
Collis shows how to built a link feed with just WordPress comments contributed by visitors. This is a cool feature to offer blog users to submit links and to create a public link feed out of it.
Christian shares his fully featured and well commented comments.php file (with some modifications to make it even more flexible). This comment.php have lots of hacks already applied which can save a lot of your time.
Find Something Missing?
While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some great resources. Feel free to share it with us.
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Great list!
Thanks
Thanks for the links in there. Hell of a lot that you can do with comments, as you’ve just shown!
Michael, you are doing a great job at problogdesign.com
I have been always a reader of your blog.
Thanks for stopping by.
You forget the “digg” features, like this site: fayerwayer.com
Thanks Danial for creating such a useful collection of tips for wordpress design seekers. I also thinking about changing my comment page on my college blog and saw instantshift’s latest post in my feed.
You guys are really awesome. You post quality increasing day by day.
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What a coincidence!! i was just searching for wordpress comment page plugins and came across your site. Nice list.
Thank you iShift.
I have one suggestion for one of your next post idea which goes like ‘Best Wordpress plugins for comment page design’.
It’s like full moon in the dark night. much appreciated effort.
A good list for reference. Thanks a lot.
Excellent post….Just one doubt….why didnt you include any spam related hacks in this list.
@Adam Costa – There is one called “Comment Validation Hack” on #18.
why not use of plugin “Akismet” instead of “Comment Validation”??
@Adam Costa – Hacks and plugins are two different thing. This post is only about wordpress comments page hacks.
@Roger Komisky – Plugins are the easy version of hacks. All plugins are hacks.
Thanks Danial for your efforts in putting all those set of tips together.
List of Handy Manny hacks. Great list! I think that most of this content is really valuable! Thanks a lot.
It’s time when many of us underestimated the power of wordpress hacks. It’s really cool to play with hacks. thanks instantshift.
This is an awesome post. Thanks for sharing
Great list. Unfortunately some of the tips above don’t work on Wordpress 2.7
ThemeLib,
Yes, WP 2.7 have many of these features inbuilt and API has been changed a little.
Thanks, for the list.
Wonderful tips
Very helpful…
Let me try them on my blog
great post
cheers
from brazil
great post!! keep them coming!
Oh, this is a great list, i didn’t know about 5 plugins.. now i’ll use it, thanks
!
sweet thanks for this wonderful resources
just a note with #14, WP 2.7 has this feature in core (a bit buggy thought)
Great post! This have been very popular on tweeter!
Nice list. I would have liked to see these two as well..
Separating trackbacks and comments
Threaded Comment Display
@Sergio,
Digg feature was on my list at the beginning but since this article is only featuring hacks for comments.php and comments only, I though it would be nice to mention it later on some different article.
Daniel
@ChaosKaizer,
I already mentioned that. Few of these hacks has been included in WP 2.7 as a default feature but I felt I need to mention anyway because many of us use older version of WP. I still do. lol
Long and nice list, gonna take some time to read all
Great Post!!
Awesome collection – thanks for putting this together!
While I’m not 100% comfortable with “hacking”, this list at least gives me some options.
I upgraded to 2.7, but some of the inbuilt functionality doesn’t work with my blog template. Having suggestions on ways to tweak it to include some of those things that I desire is nice as I like my theme and really don’t want to change.
Eyespi20,
These are not really hacks but it would not be wrong if I call them customizations which we all do time to time on our blog themes to offer more flexibility and features for visitors. Some of these hacks are inbuilt features in wordpress 2.7 but since these features doesn’t not work very efficiently, I would recommend you to use these tricks until we have more stable features in wordpress.
long lists but good tips.
thanks
I’d like to add a comment section to a static page on my blog which contains a popular article. If there’s a built-in way to do this in WordPress, please let me know. Otherwise, is there a way to achieve this? I’d really like to implement this. Thanks — and this is a great post.
Nice theme i like your theme design.. great work.
Very informative. I gave you a plug in the BloggerTalk.net newsletter.
Great post, I’ll be updating my blog today.
“If you have jQuery installed on you blog”?
You mean “on YOUR blog”.
Ffs, my daughter is 8 and she knows that.
Great compilation, thanks for taking the time.
Very useful list. Bookmarked. Thanks for it!
Thanks for nice list!
nice post
Thanks , Very Good Hack .
Super stuff! Thanks for the info.
Oop, wonderful post and great information. Will have a try all these tips.
Thanks
Super stuff! This was a really helpful post, thanks for pulling it all together.
A gud site with all i can imagine ..the day has come for people to see the truth
I feel so happy today..nice hand work duh
Great Compilation! Really Awesome!
Thanks! nice post! ^^
Nice tips.. you are already applying them on your blog.
Thanks,
fornls.
Nice tips.. you are already applying them on your blog. Keep up the work.
Thanks,
fornls.
Awsome stuff … lots of work went in this page. keep it up
Oh..wonderfull post and great information …will have a try all the tips..
thanks…
Great job!
THANK YOU!
Totally awesome, I’ve bookmarked it on my delicious page and will add some features to my design blog right now! Thanks!
Great post
many thanks
My favorite comment utilities are Commentluv at http://www.commentluv.com and Yet Another Threaded Comments Plugin at http://organisiert.net/yatcp/ . Both have helped build my communities.
Great post!
Thanks for the great article!
It helped me a lot!
It
Its really nice post thanks
long lists but good tips.
thanks
Great Post
This list of Wordpress plugins are very useful. The list could be larger though as there are a lot of great tricks. Thanks….
nice stuff..
Can you please tell me how to add “comments” to my main page? Not post, bot page. Is there a plugin that does this? Thanks much!
EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for!
Thanks so much!
hey thanks for this list. Nicely complied and put together. Keep up the great work!
Great effort to put them altogether.
A lot of thing in one place, thanks.
This is a very comprehensive list, thanks for putting it together!
will have a try all the tips… thanks…
thank you very good blog
yes, plz post an article on how to add reply to a comment here…
Daniel -
I am a little immersed in all that is Word Press and love the platform. Your blog has tons of great content and these this list of thirty hacks is excellent!
Thank you for the excellent information.
James
http://twitter.com/AskJamesHolmes
A good list for reference… Thanks.
Now make Word-press Theme online at Website… Check it.
This is a really nice post. thanks for sharing
Great post – I’ve been struggling with this for some time and it’s great to see this information about Wordpress comments grouped together.
thank you very good
Thanks for these useful tools for my comment section.
Hey, I like all the info! However, I still have a question. I am trying to add a comments area on Author pages. Kinda like a myspace type of deal where i can comment on the authors page, and not on his post.
I know some html, but not a lot of php. and i have an author.php file that would need this editing
any ideas on what I would do?
This is a great list . Thanks
Wow, great collection of tips
will try and check them all
Thanks
Great and useful post!
Wow dude, you just completely killed this post lol. It would have been good with just 10, but you blew it way out the water. Kudos bro. Wonderful!
I’m almost done modifying and tightening up my sight for daily consumption, I just hope I get people to comment on my pages/posts like yours! lol Peaceout & I’ll definitely add you to my blogroll when I get it set up
Great and useful post!
WOW! I am very amazed by the info of this post. I am trying hard to improve the comment form of my website http://www.the-evault.com. You have saved my life. Thanks ya!
how can i put comment navigation without using any plugin ?
Really great and nice stuff, thanks
Some great tips here – IMHO Wordpress is the best blogging platform by miles. I have just had my first comment on my business website blog: http://www.weareweb.co.uk/web-design-london-blog
I intend to use the information in this post to improve the look at feel of the blog. Thank you for creating!
Really great and nice stuff, thanks
Thanks for the list. It helps to find them in one place
I tried many of them and works like cream !
Thanks for the suggestions and references information’s.
Some handy hints, thanks. Will keep me busy for a while.
information provided from you people is very helpful for me as i m very found of hacking …. thanx to all
information provided by the dudes is very useful for us, Thanx to alllllll ….
vevery nice sites thanks admin
awesome thanks!
Nice Article for wordpress comments. I am looking for a solution to separate comments and trackback and here I get that.
Nice..sites..!!!!!!!!
thanks admin
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Thanks for the great tips!
Nice collections.
I am really very happy to try them.
Can some one please tell me if there is a way of displaying the auther who has left the most comments on my site?
wow…. amazing information..
thanks for information
great stuff!
How can i have a comment style like here. i want my avatar to be next to the comment and not together i need the style like here? anybody that can help me? please mail me the code cottelletje@telenet.be
thanx for post
Thanx.
Good job.
I have been designing my own theme to get developed. I am gathering reuquirements for the same. This post is really useful for that..
Theme will be free from me. It will be called WP Revolutioners.
Beautifull, I am creating a blog using wordpress now and I want it to look nicely as well, I want to try some and make it more attractive, thanks for sharing this.
Awesome post, thank you.
this is going to be very useful for my new blog! thanks a lot
Wonderful tips.Thanks
weiii i will try this
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i’ll thumb this up!
great post tho, thanks for sharing.
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cool tips, will try it now
nice
Awesome list, really all you need for making a WP comment section
hapy Christmas .
I’ve just implemented the comments fix.
Thanks for this links dude, good work!
Thanks for the links man, good work.
I’ve just finished implementing the spam comments stuff on my site and it works a charm.
wow very attractive sharing. thanks for this.
Here is an even more easier way for to add recent comments to your wordpress themes http://flexlearner.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/how-to-display-recent-comments-on-your-wordpress/
One thing I dont get, how do you build a list like this? Most of this I haven`t heard about.Good post.
simple and easy way to bring gravatar in your comments http://flexlearner.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/how-to-add-gravatar-to-your-wordpress-comments/ it just took me 5 minutes to do that.
Here’s a really basic feature that I wish we could hack for Wordpress comments: adding extra fields. Why has Wordpress decided for bloggers that the only fields allowed are Name / Email / Website / Comment? What if I’d like to know what city they’re from? Age?
Is there a plugin that does this? (I’ve searched everywhere and couldn’t find one that worked with 2.9)
Thanks for the great list. I found very interesting tutorials.
Good Tips.I will use it for my blog.Thanks.
Great list,
I think you should have avoided premium plugins in the list.
I allow comments on certain pages so I added the following:
The problem is that I only want to have comments allowed on certain pages. I am looking for a way to do this. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?
Thanks so much! This is such a big help.
This is a fantastic site. Thanks for all that you do.
Happy New Year!
Michele
Thanks for this! This is awesome!
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is: Full rss
Thanks for this post. I have used several of these plugins myself – they are highly effective.
Great tips
But what about the speech bubble style comments we’ve got going on here. How do we do that? Definitely more complicated.
Wow, I really didnt know that so much could be done with that simple wordpress comment box. Thanks, thats useful. Will do this on some sites later.
Nice post, I gonna bookmark this page. thanks for info
What a coincidence!! i was just searching for wordpress comment page plugins and came across your site. Nice list. Thank you for sharing!
Great info on the comment forms. Amazed at how powerful yet simple wordpress has made this program work. I would really like to see if there is a way to add a custom landing page to thank the visitor for adding their thoughts. Sill looking.
Excellent hacks, thanks for the infos.
Thanks. Good job! Write more. It seems like I become regular visitor
Thanks this what i need
Hey just wanted to say I recently started my own blog/website about technology and information. well i have been busy tweaking and modifying it and plan to continue doing so until i feel it is done the best it can be. the information supplied in this article is great and has helped teach me things i wanted to know how to do. i plan on implementing some of these things and pushing it further. So thanks very much for writing this list. i have to say google has not been helpful in giving me the needed information the same way this article has. Great Job!
A good list for reference. Thanks a lot.
Thanks so much!
thank four you
They all really good collection of plugins. Ill try most of them. I am allready using some anyway
Thank you
Very good articles. Thanks.
Thanks instantshift.. I used 18.
I am working on a new design and this is a perfect inspiration! Thanks.
thank four you
Very helpful post Danie. There are quite a few ways to improve comments.
I was also wondering if there was a plugin to display say 10 most recent comments on the sidebar but with link at the bottom of the list that says something like “click here to see more comments or all comments”?
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