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Effective Comment Management in Wordpress

Each people have their on reasons to ask for more control over the comment system, some people want to allow commenting on some posts while some want to close it on some. Some need extra features in comments like subscription or rich text. For some the problem is spam. Here is a random list of plugins that solve these issues.




Plugins to combat Fight Spam:
Akismet – Anti-spam is a plugin from the creators of WordPress that uses a central database of spam comments to flag spam. Requires a free API key from WordPress.com
Spam Karma – Analyzes comments for spam based on a karma system in place.
Bad Behavior – Prevents the spambots from even accessing your site by analyzing their HTTP requests.
Did You Pass Math? – Asks the commentators a simple math question before their comments are posted.
Comment Timeout – Closes comments on all old posts.


Encourage Commenting
BlogFollow – Shows a snippet of the commenter’s blog at the bottom of the comment.
DoFollow – Removes “nofollow” attributes from links in comments so search engines can follow them.
DoFollow Trackbacks – Removes “nofollow” attributes from trackbacks

Show Top Commentators – Lists the most frequent commentators on your blog, along with links to their blogs, in your sidebar.


Improve appearance
Nicer Trackbacks – Improves the appearance of trackbacks from other blogs.
WP-NoSh*t – Filters bad words from comments.
Numbered Comments Adds numbers to comments.
AuthorHighlight – Highlights comments by the blog’s author.
Comment Highlighter – Styles comments based on the author’s name, email, or URL.
wp-chunk – Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching the page.


Enable rich comments
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Custom Smileys – Adds clickable smiley emoticons to comments.
TinyMCEComments – Turns the comment box into a full-featured rich text editor.
Live Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before posting.
Edit Comments XT – Lets commentators edit their own comments.


Enable avatars
Gravatar – Displays user-selected avatars from a central database next to comments.
Favatars – Pulls the favicon from a commenter’s blog or website, and uses that for their avatar.
MBLA – Adds user images from MyBlogLog to comments.
OpenID Comments – Lets readers comment with their OpenID identity.


Show off comments
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WP-Most Commented Posts – Displays posts with the most comments in the sidebar.
Latest Comments with Avatars Reloaded – Shows the latest comments, along with the MyBlogLog avatars of the commenters.


Allow better conversation
Simple CoComments – Tracks the conversation across blogs.
Comment Karma – Digg-style voting on comments.
Quoter – Allows users to quote a previous comment in their comment.
Whisper – Lets users “whisper” comments that are only visible to one person.

Moderate comments effectively
Comment Twitter SMS Notification – Notifies you of new comments through Twitter SMS.
Bannage – Adds the ability to ban users from commenting by name, email, or IP.
CommentCentral – Allows batch opening and closing of comments on multiple posts. One Click Close Comments - Conveniently close or open comments for a post or page with one click.


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