Here is my way to say thanks to you all. Am releasing another version of Better Comments Manager which incorporates few suggestions to make it better. Thanks to all of you who have helped make this plugin better with your views, suggestions and feedbacks.

Better comments manager v1.2 incorporates the reply feature within the page. It also display the title of the post instead of the View link. I had read about this on Lorelle’s blog so thought it to be a worthwhile inclusion.

You can turn this feature of by editing the plugin and changing the value of the variable $showLinkTitle

If you want to display the link title change the variable value to 1 as shown below

$showLinkTitle = 1;

If you do not want to see the title change the value to 0 as shown below

$showLinkTitle = 0;

Ok now the feature many of you requested me to incorporate which would allow you to reply to the comments without loading another page has been added. You can now reply to comments from within the page itself. The reply text area will appear when you click on the reply link, you can add your reply and click on the Save Reply button, you will see a small message telling you that the reply is being added as shown below

Once the reply is saved it will appear as the first comment within the page, so you do not have to reload the page to see it.

Better Comments Manager also has a smart feature. If you have already clicked on a reply and not saved it yet, when you click on the reply for another comment it will show you an alert asking you whether you want to cancel the old reply. If you click yes it will clear the old reply and add a new reply form to the second comment.

Better Comments manager creates the reply form dynamically so it will not affect page load times. Check out the Better Comments Manager release page for more information about the plugin.

Installation Instructions

• Download the plugin and unzip it in your plugins folder.
• Activate the plugin and your up and running
• Go to Comments tab in your WP admin and navigate to Better Comments Manager to start using the reply feature

If you have already downloaded and installed this plugin, first do these steps and re-install the plugin using the steps above

• Deactivate Better Comments Manager from the Admin Plugin Panel
• Delete the old files and follow the steps above

Change  Log

• Version 1.2 released Wednesday, May 16th 2007
• Version 1.0 released Sunday, May 13th 2007

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the General Public License(GPL).

Support

If you feel this plugin has helped you can leave a small donation towards further plugin development.

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I switched to WordPress about a month ago from Joomla and I absolutely love it. While I was using Joomla I used to create customized mambots, modules and components for my site. Now its turn to give all WordPress users a new plugin.

After the move to WordPress I had started getting quite a few comments and to reply to them I had to always visit the post and reply from the comments form. This started to become more painful as I wanted to reply to all comments but they were across multiple posts and this made my task of replying to comments a bit difficult.

Then it came across to me that why not have a plugin where I could simply reply to the post from within the comment managing screen, that’s when the idea for Better Comments Manager came to my mind.

I am proud to release my first WordPress plugin to all users. Hope you like it and can put it to good use.

What is Better Comments Manager?

Better Comments Manager is an extension of the default WordPress comments manager. I have added two new features to the default WordPress Comments Manager.

1. Reply to comment from within WordPress Admin Panel.
2. View All Comments based by posts.

Ok so you don’t notice anything different than the default comment manager, have a look at this image

Now you see in addition to the normal tasks for a comment, there are two new links one which says Reply and another which says View all.

Features Explained

1. Reply to comment from within WordPress Admin Panel

The title says it all, you can reply to every individual comment from within the WordPress Admin so you do not have to go to individual posts to reply to comments.

Here are few screens which take you through the Reply to comments feature.

Clicking on reply links takes you to a page where you can reply to the comment.

Just enter your reply for the comment and click on Reply to Comment. That’s it the comment will now appear on the post and you didn’t even have to visit the individual post to reply to the user.

Now isn’t this a handy feature. This definitely helps me to interact much better with my readers.

2. View All Comments based by posts

This is a goodie which I thought should be a part of this plugin, it simply lets you view all the comments based on a particular post. So if you want to see the reactions for a particular post only then you can simply click the View All link in the Better Comments Manager.

This feature helps me track all comments for a particular post and makes organizing comments more better.

3. Installation

Installation is simple. Just unzip the better-comments-manager folder into your plugins folder and activate the plugin. From there, you and your users should be able to edit comments you should be able to edit comments and interact better with your users.

4. Requirements

WordPress 2.x and above

5. Usage

Once you are logged into the WordPress admin panel, clicking on Comments link will show a sub menu called Better Comments Manager, clicking on that link will allow you to use the features described above.

6. Change Log

Version 1.0 released Sunday, May 13th 2007

7. License

All files and their contents are licensed under the General Public License(GPL).

8. Support

If you feel this plugin has helped you can leave a small donation towards further plugin development.

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