Colormelon

Receiving a comment on your blog post is great and the more comments the better the feeling. It means that not only your post is good but your site becomes more and more popular and thrust-worthy. When comments start rolling in, you must make sure they display properly and look good. It’s great when a comment author has taken the time to upload a custom image of herself on her Gravatar account, but as we all know only a handful of people actually do that. This means that your precious comment area ends up filled with no-face, gray avatar thumbnails that look plane boring.
Well, that ends here and now!
Take control of the way your comment area looks by installing Avatar Project. Avatar Project is a plugin that will replace all avatar icons that don’t have a custom avatar assigned to it. Depending on your websites look, feel and theme, choose one of our Avatar Project icon packs. Currently you have a choice between colorful blobers, cups hoped up on caffeine, smug cat faces and a bunch of actual human portraits. 
This plugin will be useful for not only real, functioning blogs but for theme developers and designers as well. Install Avatar Project, write a couple of sample comments and make your comment area demonstration look much nicer than it would with the default avatars.

Avatar Project

Receiving a comment on your blog post is great and the more comments the better the feeling. It means that not only your post is good but your site be …

Matt Biscay

Better Comments is a great tool to help you style and customize your comment form and your comments section, in just a few clicks.
It saves you from having to meddle with your child theme’s CSS, just select the options you need and you’re all set.
Here’s a glimpse of what you can do with Better Comments:
Comment form
<ul>
<li>customize the look and feel of your comment form fields: border, radius, background and text colors</li>
<li>match the submit button with the colors of your site: border, radius, background and text and hover colors, dropshadow</li>
<li>highlight the fields as they are selected and typed in</li>
<li>set a Comment Policy section that can sit before or after the comment textarea, and define its look and feel</li>
<li>stack all fields in the comment form, to mimick a mobile view</li>
<li>move the comment field to the bottom of the form</li>
<li>remove the URL field</li>
</ul>
Comment section
<ul>
<li>set a custom default avatar for non-users</li>
<li>allow users to upload their own image avatar, within their profile</li>
<li>define a custom avatar shape among: circle, triangle, rhombus, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, bevel, rabbet, or message</li>
<li>hide the comment’s date</li>
<li>design the Reply button to your liking: border, radius, background, text, hover colors, padding, text-decoration</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://utopique.net/products/better-comments/" title="Better Comments Premium" rel="nofollow ugc">Better Comments Premium</a> provides other sets of options that allow you to:
<ul>
<li>enable comments quicktags for your audience to format their comments nicely: you can define built-in quicktags (bold, italic, link etc) or define your own quicktags within the admin panel</li>
<li>access time-saving admin controls: oEmbeds in comments, disable admin self-notifications, add referrer to notifications, allow admin to comment on closed to comments posts</li>
<li>reduce SEO errors with smart redirects and keep the SEO juice flowing</li>
<li>increase security levels and reduce spam: shutdown trackbacks, disable comments cookies, discard comments posted with a numeric name, discard people impersonating registered members</li>
<li>disable comments on both built-in post types and your custom post types</li>
<li>remove comments completely from both built-in post types and your custom post types</li>
</ul>
New features are added on a regular basis.

Better Comments

Better Comments allows you to easily style and customize your comment form and comments section, in just a few clicks.

Avatar Project vs Better Comments