By default WordPress provides you comment area with no visual editing buttons, it supports HTML tags and attributes but there are no formatting options for users who don’t know about using markup language.
In this lesson you will learn about switching this poor comment form field into a rich WYSIWYG editor, using the native TinyMCE Editor bundled with WordPress. Continue reading Enable Visual Editing Buttons On Comment Form In WordPress
Sometime after leabing comment on any website you must have felt the need of editing your comment, maybe due to some grammar or spelling mistake or regret of posting something idiotic. But unfortunately, most WordPress sites doesn’t provides the ability for anonymous users to edit their comments. The reason is, by default WordPress only provides this ability to site admins. In this tutorial, you will see how in a few clicks you can enable your anonymous and unregistered users to edit their comment.
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When posting a new comment, you can enable a new functionality for users to directly mention the author of another comment in WordPress. The feature is similar to popular Facebook and Twitter mentions, comments can use “@” symbol. Mention comment’s Authors by Wabeo lets you enable this functionality in a very easy way.
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Simple User Rank Comments provides you another easy way of increasing time on site using a simple game of competition. This new plugin creates and displays user rank titles based on there comment count. User ank is auto display after pseudo in comments.
The plugin is easy to use, simply install and activate it. After activation visit your admin area Dashbaord -> Comments -> All Ranks for modifying and creating new user ranks. 
After adding ranks, click the ‘Save Changes’ button then open a post with comments and see how it looks like.
For manually adding user rank in your comment’s template file you can use the following code:
<?php if(function_exists('get_user_rank')) {
echo get_user_rank();
} ?>
Super Post adds many useful features for displaying your WordPress blog posts and post types is a better way. The plugin is compatible with all post types and automatically adds various useful options, gives you more controls over your blog content.
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Cache is basically a component used for storing data transparently for fast processing of requests. Data stored in cache can be the computed values or duplicates of original values stored somewhere else. If data is stored in the cache then requests are served simply by reading the cache which is comparatively faster. This tutorial explains you how you can enable cache for Gravatars of your WordPress site.
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With new WordPress Simple Ajax Insert Comments Lite plugin WordPress site owners can quickly add a small but powerful features to get comments in a fast and easy way like to style of popular social networks. The plugin uses Ajax, jQuery and PHP for inserting comments where you won’t be needing to refresh whole page for making new comments to appear.
With new WordPress plugin called Comment Auto Blacklist automatically adds IPs of spam comments to comment blacklist settings field in your WordPress site.
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By default AJAX editing is only possible in admin area’s all comment’s quick edit option; now this tutorial explains how you can add a quick and powerful AJAX editing front-end feature for your website users. Simply install and activate WP Ajax Edit Comments plugin; soon after activation you can start editing comments on front-end using this plugin’s AJAX edit feature. Not only this much but this plugin provides you a plenty of the options and features that you can configure from your admin area dashboard’s AEC (AJAX Edit Comments) menu.
By toggling the visibility of WordPress comment form it comes visible only when a user clicks the comment button on single post pages. You can easily show/hide comment form via AJAX by using Show/Hide Commentform plugin, the plugin works with all WordPress and BuddyPress powered themes and there are no configuration options to set.
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By default WordPress only allows you to close or limit comments to members only. this can be down from your dashboard’s discussion page in settings menu. But in case if you want to hide comments feature completely from your WordPress site then here’s an way to do that.
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As you website starts becoming popular on Internet, you start getting a lot of comments. Some visitors drop very useful comments that makes your articles more valuable, some just come for increasing their Page Rank, some drop comment for getting backlinks etc etc But whatsoever may be the reason comments and commenters are always valuable for yourwebsite, even those who just drop comments for increasing their PR because they come and spend time on your websiteand this is the most important thing a blogger need.
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Bloggers running a multi-author WordPress blog can display avatar list of their site authors using a widget or shortcode. Here are two WordPress plugins that allows you to do so very easily.
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Captcha Grab is the new stylish comment spam blocker that makes your visitor solve the puzzle images. It includes 58 puzzle images that get displayed randomly and you can upload your own.
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Add a Twitter retweet button (similar to techcrunch) for your WordPress posts and archives that shows all tweets and enables retweeting. If you want you can also add adds tweets as comments and trackbacks.
There are many nice working plugins available in WordPress plugin repository but you cannot use them all. Here in this article I am not discussing about the plugins that integrates social login , makes better SEO for comments or lets you join comment communities etc. Here are the plugin that fulfills basic needs of most WordPress bloggers for managing comments like limiting comment length, disabling comment on pages and certain post types, give comment ratings etc.
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If you don’t want people to add their website URL while posting any comment to your WordPress blog then you may remove URL field from the comment form by adding a filter in your theme’s function file.
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Add some image services in your WordPress site discussions. Add a step between “no gravatar account” and “default gravatar sent back”. Make comments system automatically search and set the commenter’s image.
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Learn importing Facebook comments, walls and images to your WordPress site.
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