Comments are awesome, but the WordPress comments system is sometimes slightly lacking. Several large sites have, in the first few months of this year, announced they were no longer allowing comments. We, at Yoast, don’t understand that. We’ve found that there’s huge value in discussing our posts with our community. Over the years, we’ve made several plugins that all make the comments system slightly better. Today we’re announcing a new plugin that bundles some of that functionality into one simple to install plugin: Yoast Comment Hacks.
This plugin has 5 modules, all of which were previously separate plugins, some feature highlights:
Minimum comment length
By default, a comment of even 1 character is long enough to be saved. We think that’s weird. If someone wants to leave a comment, we’d prefer it if they have something real to say. This module allows you to set a minimum length and prevent people from leaving a comment if they’re under that.
Comment redirect
One of our “old time classics”, this module allows you to redirect first time commenters to a thank you page. You can use this page to inform them about other nice things on your site, stuff they should really read, etc. Want to see how that works? Well. Leave a comment on this post and you’ll see!
Clean notification emails
This was actually not a plugin of ours. The original plugin which inspired us for this was built and released by Mike Davidson in 2008. Mike is now the head of design at Twitter and obviously has better things to do, so we emailed him a while back asking if it was ok for us to update his old plugin. He gave his OK so we went to work on his old code and brought it into this decennium. The code does one “simple” thing: make comment emails look better! See this example:
We’ll probably add more small comment hacks to this plugin as we go along and find more small ways to make the WordPress comments system easier to use. Do tell us what you’d like to see in the comments below!
Joost is an internet entrepreneur and the founder of Yoast. He has a long history in WordPress and digital marketing. On our blog, he has written a lot about SEO in general, technical SEO and important topics related to SEO.
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92 Responses to Introducing Yoast Comment Hacks
Lionel • 9 years ago
This is a test comment for 1st Comment Redirect… a feature I’m looking for for a while.
Samantha • 9 years ago
Excited for the redirect feature. Checking out by commenting ;)
Thanks for all the awesome work you do.
Jesse Hackshaw • 9 years ago
This will come in handy for my tech blog. I’m tired of seeing comments like cool or good. A little more feedback would be appreciated. I also like the email module. Thanks for the great effort put into this plug-in.
Wely Hariyanto • 9 years ago
I get rid of replytocomm variable from indexing. Will it ruin the goal of this plugin? (new comment as fresh content update)
BTW Thanks Joosk (y)
Karol • 9 years ago
” Want to see how that works? Well. Leave a comment on this post and you’ll see!” 87 comments and counting ;)
That’s a spirit and a great “call to action”!
Well done – thx for another great product.
Karol
Debra Dalgleish • 9 years ago
Thanks for the new plugin, and I’m always confident that things will work correctly, when installing something that you built.
Diane • 9 years ago
I am embarrassed to admit that I was blogging a year and replying to every comment before I discovered that my replies did not go to the reader. :) Some quick scrambling ensued and I found a plugin. I’m interested in trying out your new plugin with the extra helpful features. Thanks sooo much!
Julie Corbett • 9 years ago
Learned about your new plugin via Amy Lynn Andrews’s weekly Useletter. Eager to see how it works. Thanks for all you do to help us make our sites better!
Bill Treloar • 9 years ago
I’m eager to try this out; I have high hopes for it.
Bill Treloar • 9 years ago
BTW, does your plugin interact in any way with Akismet comment spam filter?
Ian • 9 years ago
Thanks for putting this plug-I’m together. I’m simplifying my website and blogging is a central part of this strategy, so this enhancement to WordPress has arrived at the perfect time for me.
With love,
Ian
Sara Williams • 9 years ago
What I would like to see added is the ability to move a comment from one post to another. I often have a reader ask a question / make a point which would be interesting & helpful on one post but which is largely irrelevant to the one they are on. Tako movable comments plugin seems to have stopped working.
PS you may have thought I found this article from the email I received about it. Actually I ignored that. But I commented on a different Yoast blog this morning for the first time and loved the Thank You screen so promptly googled for how to add one of those to my site :)
Kaitlyn • 9 years ago
Once you’ve uploaded the plugin to your site, how can you edit the page that first-time commenters will see?
Thanks so much!
Kaitlyn • 9 years ago
Checking out the new comments feature!
Kelly • 9 years ago
Sounds like a great plugin. I’ll be checking it out too.
Amit Ramani • 9 years ago
I have not tried the plugin yet. My question is:
Does this still let you add comments/reviews on WooCommerce product pages? If the reviews are added by an Administrator, does the original submitter still have to verify them?
Jamie • 9 years ago
Trying the comment hack out.
Mystie • 9 years ago
Checking out the great new comments feature – then I’ll go install it on my 3 sites. :) Thanks!
Gordon Dewar • 9 years ago
Wow yet another great piece of work and if I ever make any money whatsoever with this internet malarkey I will definitely donate what I can,thx again,bedankt.
Yours Sincerely
Gordon Dewar
Ellen M. Gregg • 9 years ago
Hat tip to Amy Lynn Andrews of http://www.amylynnandrews.com and her weekly Useletter for turning me on to this. I like what I’ve read here (a lot, a lot), and look forward to seeing it in action. (Which is, in part, why I’m leaving a comment.)
Thanks, Joost and Team Yoast! :-) Peace.
Pam • 9 years ago
Can’t wait to try this out and want to see the ‘thank you’ page!
Rachael • 9 years ago
Thank you and can not wait to test it.
Jean Murray • 9 years ago
Thanks for the great plug-in. I use your Google Analytics plug-in too.
Jenn Alex • 9 years ago
I mostly want to see the redirect page, but am always looking for useful bundled plugins for myself and clients.
Herschel Lawhorn • 9 years ago
Have been using your plugins for years and they only keep getting better and I am sure this one will be no different. Thank you for all you have done for me and all the people that use you plugins.
Jamie Walton • 9 years ago
I’ve loved the Yoast SEO tool so far–excited to check this out. Thanks!
Norman Medina DDS • 9 years ago
We have a paid version of Akismet plugin, but I finally gave up on WordPress comments. A few blogs that I follow use FB Comments Plugin. I have mixed feelings about giving all our comments over to FB, but I must admit it is a nice to have a blogpost ripple through facebook.
Deborah • 9 years ago
Excited to see how this redirect works. Thanks for a much-needed comment option!
Dennis • 9 years ago
very, very interested to see how the redirect works!
Peter • 9 years ago
very, very interested to see how the redirect works!
Vinay • 9 years ago
Hi Joost, You asked what I’d like to see more in your new comment plugin. When you talk of comments management, I guess you can add more hacks, but then of course, that would make it bulky. If you want your plugin to become the total comment management option, then here are some hack ideas.
Bloggers get so with blogging that they miss or avoid replying to the comments on the posts (that’s me!). A notification on the dashboard about commments pending to be replied would act as a reminder or trigger for the blogger to take up the task and settle the pending scores.
Display the following on the Admin dashboard:
– number of comments pending to be replied on a post
– number of comments pending to be replied by commenters marked as best/most frequent commenters (they should be given priority)
– number of posts with comments pending to be replied
Besides these, a limited duration comment edit ability is also a desired feature for the commenter. You can also give the post author or administrator the ability to feature the best comment and make it appear on the top of the comments, as available on Disqus, or in the sidebar widget, which can showcase one best comment each from the selected number of posts of the blog.
Also a feature where the administrator has the ability to mark the good comments of a post such that the ‘not so good’ comments are hidden under the button “see more comments”, which may motivate the commenters to submit quality comments and be visible, and not get hidden (disqus does it in a way through the public voting system).
As for the other features in your plugin, I like the ‘comment parent edit’ and ’email commenters’ options. The rest options are also available in the CommentLuv plugin.
I’m sure these features would make the WordPress comments system easier to use for the administrator and the commenter as well. Thanks
David Huynh • 9 years ago
i find this plugin is very useful. So I want to test the content direct feature.
Ngan Son • 9 years ago
Awesome plugin. It work very well. Thank Yoast !
phil salt • 9 years ago
Thank you Yoast for bringing this into the free category of WordPress plugins. Shall be giving it a whirl on my developing site
Steve • 9 years ago
Thanks, and a very clever use of converting what may have been a potential exit from your web site to re target another CTA
Thanks
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
You get us Steve. It’s about conversion. Everywhere.
Steve • 9 years ago
Very interested to see how the redirect works
Terri • 9 years ago
I am very excited to try this plugin. I really love your SEO plugin and I am loving the idea of getting the comments section to be more useful and efficient. You guys do awesome work. Thank you!
Anthony • 9 years ago
Whoa! Great addition! I’m interested in seeing the thank you page!
Gail Sibley • 9 years ago
Sounds good and look forward to exploring it. And of course I’m curious about the thank you page :-)
You sure knew how to get a whole heap of comments!
Rehan • 9 years ago
I have already been using Akismet plugin to prevent comment spam on my blog. Can I use both the plugins (Akismet + Yoast Comment Hacks) at the same time? Another question is, do I really need Akismet anymore if I install Yoast’s new plugin alone?
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Yeah we use Akismet too, this plugin doesn’t prevent spam :)
Diane • 9 years ago
Have you tried WP-SpamShield to prevent comment spam? I’ve used Akismet, but WP-SS has reduced my spam to zero.
Teresa • 9 years ago
I really love this plugin, just downloaded yesterday. Keep up the great work and I am looking forward to any updates on this plugin!
Shawn Griffith • 9 years ago
I have WordPress SEO plug-in and it’s AWESOME. checking out the comment hacks plug-in.
Bill Lawrence • 9 years ago
I just want to see the thank you page.
Fabs • 9 years ago
Great plugin!!!
Luis Luna • 9 years ago
Thank you very much, it really is a great plugin, just wanted to ask if the plugin is ready to translate, I want to translate it to Spanish
We’re actually already more than halfway there with es_ES :)
Laurentiu • 9 years ago
I’m curious about that redirect page :)
Rob • 9 years ago
Looks great. Thanks as usual
Lysa Wilds • 9 years ago
The redirect page is great! I love it and can’t wait to start using it in my site! Thank you again!
xx
Lysa
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Glad you like it!
Lysa Wilds • 9 years ago
I love everything you have offered so far so I will check out this plugin. I do have a question though. Is the comment email sent to the website administrator or to the person leaving the comment? I use a plugin to send those who take the time to comment an email whenever anyone replies to their comment. I cannot stand the whole WordPress “notify me of new comments” because I don’t particularly care to read what others say in their comments I’m more interested in what replies are received in regards to the comment I left. I would love it if you could add an email option to that would and an email to the person who left a comment so they do not have to keep coming back to see if anyone has replied to their chimney.
Sorry I am technology challenged and do not know the proper terms. I must admit that I really have no idea what your plugin options are for. If you could break it down for me that would be awesome as I could use all the help I can get trying to understand all of this website stuff. Thank you for this new plugin Off to go check it out and see exactly how it would benefit me and my blog.
Wishing you a beautiful day!
Much love,
Lysa xx
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
“Is the comment email sent to the website administrator or to the person leaving the comment?”
Neither. To the author of the post, although that could be the administrator of course. And if you’re the author of the post and the commenter, WordPress is smart enough to not send you an email :)
Dave Thomas • 9 years ago
I also would like to see the redirect in action.
I’d also like to say that I like the thinking behind these features that should make comments much more useful to other visitors as well as to us, although I probably don’t post enough to our blog to generate enough comments to make these an essential part of our site.
Dave Thomas • 9 years ago
I’ve seen the redirect page. I think that it is a great idea and I can see how this would enhance our own site.
Thanks for this.
Harry Heijligers • 9 years ago
I’m a fan of Yoast so I’m definitely going to try this new plugin! It would be nice if in the near future it would also get a feature like Commentluv has!
Lee • 9 years ago
Another great plugin issue solved! I will be adding this and using immediately. Talk about coming in handy…doing a redesign and was stuck on the commenting piece.
Wakil Nikzad • 9 years ago
And I forgot to tell you “thank you!”
I wish I could edit my previous comment :)
Wakil Nikzad • 9 years ago
We expect adding “Edit” feature, where commentors can edit their text after posting (for a specific time or before moderation)
Wim • 9 years ago
Thanks! I will install it this evening and check out the possibilities.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Curious what you think of it :)
manolo • 9 years ago
And then people wonder why Yoast is so successfull… there is a huge need (improved native comments) and in the 2+ yrs have been looking for something only “disqus” come out as an alternative… so no one is really caring, until now… I hope this plugin comes with more improvement… well done!
Danny Brown (@DannyBrown) • 9 years ago
I’d suggest looking at Postmatic – probably the best native comment solution I’ve found (especially if you tie it in with their Epoch Comments solution, currently in beta).
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Yeah I personally think native comments haven’t had enough love in core either, but we might inspire some change yet.
Jeremy Myers • 9 years ago
Every plugin you put out solves a problem and ends up being one of the most helpful plugins I use. This one will no doubt be the same. Thanks!
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
We try to scratch our own itches and when we guess enough other people will have that same itch, we release it :)
Danny Brown (@DannyBrown) • 9 years ago
One thing you may want to consider regarding the Email Commenter feature is double opt-in to allow that service.
Various European countries require this, and Canada introduced the CASL legislation last July. If you don’t get specific permission to email someone (let’s say you wanted to send them an incentive, an offer, a marketing message) then you’re breaking the law, with fines of up to $10 million.
Given CASL has already seen its first $1 million plus fine, this is an important aspect to consider.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
We actually require people to verify their email address before even posting their comment. We might add both features in one… Seems a logical solution.
Danny Brown (@DannyBrown) • 9 years ago
It would definitely help those that don’t follow a best practices like you guys seem to. :)
SMMTIPS • 9 years ago
I just spot the translation community here! , would definitely join and will try to help translating Thai!
We’re looking forward to that :) Yes we have a thriving translation community :)
SMMTIPS • 9 years ago
I’m joining it, i really like all of you guys product and i would be really happy to make some contribution!
Mark • 9 years ago
Great addition! Going to give this a try, the comment redirect looks good!
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
You’ve seen it in action now, curious how much you like it :)
Kelsey Vere • 9 years ago
This sounds like a great addition to your amazing plugins. I will have to look further into it (the first step is to see how the comment emails work…)
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Curious how much you like it :)
Nathan Payne • 9 years ago
To be honest, I just want to see your thank you page :)
Although, I do completely agree comments being disabled is counter productive. I run a fairly busy news website which get a hand full of comments per day (mixed with a few hundred spam comments!) which are from people who have an interest in what I have written, want to learn more.
Why a business would choose to not strike up a conversation with these people is beyond me!
Kelsey Vere • 9 years ago
I have also noticed more and more businesses turning off their comments. I can’t help but wonder if it’s just that they don’t have to have to moderate the spam and sift through for the good comments and then to engage with them. If they don’t have the time to follow-up, is it really worth having the comments on?
What’s worse: not having a commenting system or having a commenting system but not taking the time to moderate and respond to post engagement?
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
If that means spam is left in there, it’s most definitely worse to have comments. But I think you should just be willing to fix it :)
Nils van der Knaap • 9 years ago
How about a New Comment Notification, on which a user can (un)subscribe?
There are a few already, but it would be nice if this is combined into one powerfull commentplugin.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Yeah I’ve thought about it, but that requires interface etc. Which would basically double the size of the plugin.
John-Pierre Cornelissen • 9 years ago
+1 for the ‘New Comment Notification option’. And while at that, a second option to subscribe to a mailing list like mailchimp.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
That second option is actually something the awesome Mailchimp for WordPress plugin provides.
Robert Giacomell • 9 years ago
Thanks Joost for understanding us and providing another useful plugin for the WordPress users. I have been using WordPress from long time and wanted something like this in the comments format. Comments are an important part of any article, so it’s very important to safeguard it.
Would definitely love to get such more plugins from you and your team. Cheers!
Jelv • 9 years ago
Nice bundeling of useful comment hacks. Small tip: the text is nicely translated into Dutch, but the default text in the fields is not.
This is a test comment for 1st Comment Redirect… a feature I’m looking for for a while.
Excited for the redirect feature. Checking out by commenting ;)
Thanks for all the awesome work you do.
This will come in handy for my tech blog. I’m tired of seeing comments like cool or good. A little more feedback would be appreciated. I also like the email module. Thanks for the great effort put into this plug-in.
I get rid of replytocomm variable from indexing. Will it ruin the goal of this plugin? (new comment as fresh content update)
BTW Thanks Joosk (y)
” Want to see how that works? Well. Leave a comment on this post and you’ll see!” 87 comments and counting ;)
That’s a spirit and a great “call to action”!
Well done – thx for another great product.
Karol
Thanks for the new plugin, and I’m always confident that things will work correctly, when installing something that you built.
I am embarrassed to admit that I was blogging a year and replying to every comment before I discovered that my replies did not go to the reader. :) Some quick scrambling ensued and I found a plugin. I’m interested in trying out your new plugin with the extra helpful features. Thanks sooo much!
Learned about your new plugin via Amy Lynn Andrews’s weekly Useletter. Eager to see how it works. Thanks for all you do to help us make our sites better!
I’m eager to try this out; I have high hopes for it.
BTW, does your plugin interact in any way with Akismet comment spam filter?
Thanks for putting this plug-I’m together. I’m simplifying my website and blogging is a central part of this strategy, so this enhancement to WordPress has arrived at the perfect time for me.
With love,
Ian
What I would like to see added is the ability to move a comment from one post to another. I often have a reader ask a question / make a point which would be interesting & helpful on one post but which is largely irrelevant to the one they are on. Tako movable comments plugin seems to have stopped working.
PS you may have thought I found this article from the email I received about it. Actually I ignored that. But I commented on a different Yoast blog this morning for the first time and loved the Thank You screen so promptly googled for how to add one of those to my site :)
Once you’ve uploaded the plugin to your site, how can you edit the page that first-time commenters will see?
Thanks so much!
Checking out the new comments feature!
Sounds like a great plugin. I’ll be checking it out too.
I have not tried the plugin yet. My question is:
Does this still let you add comments/reviews on WooCommerce product pages? If the reviews are added by an Administrator, does the original submitter still have to verify them?
Trying the comment hack out.
Checking out the great new comments feature – then I’ll go install it on my 3 sites. :) Thanks!
Wow yet another great piece of work and if I ever make any money whatsoever with this internet malarkey I will definitely donate what I can,thx again,bedankt.
Yours Sincerely
Gordon Dewar
Hat tip to Amy Lynn Andrews of http://www.amylynnandrews.com and her weekly Useletter for turning me on to this. I like what I’ve read here (a lot, a lot), and look forward to seeing it in action. (Which is, in part, why I’m leaving a comment.)
Thanks, Joost and Team Yoast! :-) Peace.
Can’t wait to try this out and want to see the ‘thank you’ page!
Thank you and can not wait to test it.
Thanks for the great plug-in. I use your Google Analytics plug-in too.
I mostly want to see the redirect page, but am always looking for useful bundled plugins for myself and clients.
Have been using your plugins for years and they only keep getting better and I am sure this one will be no different. Thank you for all you have done for me and all the people that use you plugins.
I’ve loved the Yoast SEO tool so far–excited to check this out. Thanks!
We have a paid version of Akismet plugin, but I finally gave up on WordPress comments. A few blogs that I follow use FB Comments Plugin. I have mixed feelings about giving all our comments over to FB, but I must admit it is a nice to have a blogpost ripple through facebook.
Excited to see how this redirect works. Thanks for a much-needed comment option!
very, very interested to see how the redirect works!
very, very interested to see how the redirect works!
Hi Joost, You asked what I’d like to see more in your new comment plugin. When you talk of comments management, I guess you can add more hacks, but then of course, that would make it bulky. If you want your plugin to become the total comment management option, then here are some hack ideas.
Bloggers get so with blogging that they miss or avoid replying to the comments on the posts (that’s me!). A notification on the dashboard about commments pending to be replied would act as a reminder or trigger for the blogger to take up the task and settle the pending scores.
Display the following on the Admin dashboard:
– number of comments pending to be replied on a post
– number of comments pending to be replied by commenters marked as best/most frequent commenters (they should be given priority)
– number of posts with comments pending to be replied
Besides these, a limited duration comment edit ability is also a desired feature for the commenter. You can also give the post author or administrator the ability to feature the best comment and make it appear on the top of the comments, as available on Disqus, or in the sidebar widget, which can showcase one best comment each from the selected number of posts of the blog.
Also a feature where the administrator has the ability to mark the good comments of a post such that the ‘not so good’ comments are hidden under the button “see more comments”, which may motivate the commenters to submit quality comments and be visible, and not get hidden (disqus does it in a way through the public voting system).
As for the other features in your plugin, I like the ‘comment parent edit’ and ’email commenters’ options. The rest options are also available in the CommentLuv plugin.
I’m sure these features would make the WordPress comments system easier to use for the administrator and the commenter as well. Thanks
i find this plugin is very useful. So I want to test the content direct feature.
Awesome plugin. It work very well. Thank Yoast !
Thank you Yoast for bringing this into the free category of WordPress plugins. Shall be giving it a whirl on my developing site
Thanks, and a very clever use of converting what may have been a potential exit from your web site to re target another CTA
Thanks
You get us Steve. It’s about conversion. Everywhere.
Very interested to see how the redirect works
I am very excited to try this plugin. I really love your SEO plugin and I am loving the idea of getting the comments section to be more useful and efficient. You guys do awesome work. Thank you!
Whoa! Great addition! I’m interested in seeing the thank you page!
Sounds good and look forward to exploring it. And of course I’m curious about the thank you page :-)
You sure knew how to get a whole heap of comments!
I have already been using Akismet plugin to prevent comment spam on my blog. Can I use both the plugins (Akismet + Yoast Comment Hacks) at the same time? Another question is, do I really need Akismet anymore if I install Yoast’s new plugin alone?
Yeah we use Akismet too, this plugin doesn’t prevent spam :)
Have you tried WP-SpamShield to prevent comment spam? I’ve used Akismet, but WP-SS has reduced my spam to zero.
I really love this plugin, just downloaded yesterday. Keep up the great work and I am looking forward to any updates on this plugin!
I have WordPress SEO plug-in and it’s AWESOME. checking out the comment hacks plug-in.
I just want to see the thank you page.
Great plugin!!!
Thank you very much, it really is a great plugin, just wanted to ask if the plugin is ready to translate, I want to translate it to Spanish
Of course! You could sign up here, and then head here to start translating :)
We’re actually already more than halfway there with es_ES :)
I’m curious about that redirect page :)
Looks great. Thanks as usual
The redirect page is great! I love it and can’t wait to start using it in my site! Thank you again!
xx
Lysa
Glad you like it!
I love everything you have offered so far so I will check out this plugin. I do have a question though. Is the comment email sent to the website administrator or to the person leaving the comment? I use a plugin to send those who take the time to comment an email whenever anyone replies to their comment. I cannot stand the whole WordPress “notify me of new comments” because I don’t particularly care to read what others say in their comments I’m more interested in what replies are received in regards to the comment I left. I would love it if you could add an email option to that would and an email to the person who left a comment so they do not have to keep coming back to see if anyone has replied to their chimney.
Sorry I am technology challenged and do not know the proper terms. I must admit that I really have no idea what your plugin options are for. If you could break it down for me that would be awesome as I could use all the help I can get trying to understand all of this website stuff. Thank you for this new plugin Off to go check it out and see exactly how it would benefit me and my blog.
Wishing you a beautiful day!
Much love,
Lysa xx
Neither. To the author of the post, although that could be the administrator of course. And if you’re the author of the post and the commenter, WordPress is smart enough to not send you an email :)
I also would like to see the redirect in action.
I’d also like to say that I like the thinking behind these features that should make comments much more useful to other visitors as well as to us, although I probably don’t post enough to our blog to generate enough comments to make these an essential part of our site.
I’ve seen the redirect page. I think that it is a great idea and I can see how this would enhance our own site.
Thanks for this.
I’m a fan of Yoast so I’m definitely going to try this new plugin! It would be nice if in the near future it would also get a feature like Commentluv has!
Another great plugin issue solved! I will be adding this and using immediately. Talk about coming in handy…doing a redesign and was stuck on the commenting piece.
And I forgot to tell you “thank you!”
I wish I could edit my previous comment :)
We expect adding “Edit” feature, where commentors can edit their text after posting (for a specific time or before moderation)
Thanks! I will install it this evening and check out the possibilities.
Curious what you think of it :)
And then people wonder why Yoast is so successfull… there is a huge need (improved native comments) and in the 2+ yrs have been looking for something only “disqus” come out as an alternative… so no one is really caring, until now… I hope this plugin comes with more improvement… well done!
I’d suggest looking at Postmatic – probably the best native comment solution I’ve found (especially if you tie it in with their Epoch Comments solution, currently in beta).
Yeah I personally think native comments haven’t had enough love in core either, but we might inspire some change yet.
Every plugin you put out solves a problem and ends up being one of the most helpful plugins I use. This one will no doubt be the same. Thanks!
We try to scratch our own itches and when we guess enough other people will have that same itch, we release it :)
One thing you may want to consider regarding the Email Commenter feature is double opt-in to allow that service.
Various European countries require this, and Canada introduced the CASL legislation last July. If you don’t get specific permission to email someone (let’s say you wanted to send them an incentive, an offer, a marketing message) then you’re breaking the law, with fines of up to $10 million.
Given CASL has already seen its first $1 million plus fine, this is an important aspect to consider.
We actually require people to verify their email address before even posting their comment. We might add both features in one… Seems a logical solution.
It would definitely help those that don’t follow a best practices like you guys seem to. :)
I just spot the translation community here! , would definitely join and will try to help translating Thai!
Please feel most welcome!
Have you signed up at https://translate.yoast.com/register/ already?
I’m doing it right now :)
We’re looking forward to that :) Yes we have a thriving translation community :)
I’m joining it, i really like all of you guys product and i would be really happy to make some contribution!
Great addition! Going to give this a try, the comment redirect looks good!
You’ve seen it in action now, curious how much you like it :)
This sounds like a great addition to your amazing plugins. I will have to look further into it (the first step is to see how the comment emails work…)
Curious how much you like it :)
To be honest, I just want to see your thank you page :)
Although, I do completely agree comments being disabled is counter productive. I run a fairly busy news website which get a hand full of comments per day (mixed with a few hundred spam comments!) which are from people who have an interest in what I have written, want to learn more.
Why a business would choose to not strike up a conversation with these people is beyond me!
I have also noticed more and more businesses turning off their comments. I can’t help but wonder if it’s just that they don’t have to have to moderate the spam and sift through for the good comments and then to engage with them. If they don’t have the time to follow-up, is it really worth having the comments on?
What’s worse: not having a commenting system or having a commenting system but not taking the time to moderate and respond to post engagement?
If that means spam is left in there, it’s most definitely worse to have comments. But I think you should just be willing to fix it :)
How about a New Comment Notification, on which a user can (un)subscribe?
There are a few already, but it would be nice if this is combined into one powerfull commentplugin.
Yeah I’ve thought about it, but that requires interface etc. Which would basically double the size of the plugin.
+1 for the ‘New Comment Notification option’. And while at that, a second option to subscribe to a mailing list like mailchimp.
That second option is actually something the awesome Mailchimp for WordPress plugin provides.
Thanks Joost for understanding us and providing another useful plugin for the WordPress users. I have been using WordPress from long time and wanted something like this in the comments format. Comments are an important part of any article, so it’s very important to safeguard it.
Would definitely love to get such more plugins from you and your team. Cheers!
Nice bundeling of useful comment hacks. Small tip: the text is nicely translated into Dutch, but the default text in the fields is not.
Hey Jelv,
actually, you can help fix that at at Yoast Translate: https://translate.yoast.com/projects/comment-hacks :)
Cool and handy plugin ! Thank you.
Does it comes in the repo too ? (updates)
From the post: “The plugin is of course also available on WordPress.org.”