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10 Great Comment Plugins for WordPress

By Mitch “WordPress-er” Keeler

Comments are a very important part of your blog.  If you have a blog setup, you want to make sure you give your commenters a little something extra, to keep them coming back for more.  Here are ten great comment plugins for the WordPress publishing engine.

wpthumb WP Grins – WP Grins will provide clickable smilies for both the post form in the admin interface and the comments form of your blog.

wpthumb Akismet – Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

wpthumb GD Star Rating – Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating system for pages, posts and comments in your blog.

wpthumb AJAXed Wordpress – A highly customizable plugin to add AJAX to your blog. AWP uses AJAX to load posts inline, paginate posts, load and submit comments, and more.

wpthumb MyCaptcha – Allows you to display a captcha on your comment form to avoid spam.

wpthumb Subscribe to Comments – Subscribe to Comments allows commenters on an entry to subscribe to e-mail notifications for subsequent comments.

wpthumb WP Wall – “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the side.

wpthumb Live Comment Preview – Live Comment Preview is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site. Simply activate the plugin — That’s it!

wpthumb Easy Gravatars – Add Gravatars to your comments without modifying any template files. Just activate, and you’re done!

wpthumb @ Reply – This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments.

As an extra bonus, be sure to check out our contest themes too:

Now maybe you shouldn’t add ALL of these plugins to WordPress, but pick out the ones you like and let us know how they work for you.  If you are looking for a great place to host your WordPress powered blog – the Lunarpages Basic hosting plan makes a perfect choice.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 5:19 am and is filed under Mitch Keeler, Website Tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed . Comments are currently closed.

2 Responses to “10 Great Comment Plugins for WordPress”

  1. Lunartics Value Web Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 5:02 am

    CommentLuv is pretty cool, it displays the latest blog post title – with a link – from the commentator’s blog.

  2. Lunartics Saving Money Says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Interesting stuff!