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<p>Comment Connection is a plugin that turns an element of comment text to a link for a previous comment. Whenever an author uses @<em>commenter</em>, the text after @ is automatically linked to the previous comment it refers to.</p>
<p>The plugin works by searching each comment for an occurance of @. Where it finds one, the plugin searches the comment database for a comment on the same post written by the person being referenced. By doing it this way, the plugin only adds one database query for each referencing comment.</p>
<p>If the type after the @ symbol does not correspond to a comment, no changes are made.</p>
<p>Currently tested successfully with the most current version of WP, 2.7. If you have trouble with earlier versions, or even have it work properly on earlier versions, please let me know.</p>
<p>For a complete list of the changes from each version, please visit <a href="http://www.wesg.ca/2008/04/wordpress-plugin-comment-connection/#changelog" rel="nofollow ugc">the plugin homepage</a>.</p>
<p>Be sure to check out my other plugins at <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/wesg" rel="ugc">my WordPress profile</a>.</p>
<h4>USAGE</h4>
<p>Inside a comment, write @<em>commenter</em> where <em>commenter</em> is the name of the author you are replying to. The plugin will successfully find a link when the commenter text is followed by a new line, colon (:), comma (,) or a dash (-).</p>
<h4>LIMITATIONS</h4>
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<li><em>Commenter</em> must be an exact match of the original author’s name.</li>
<li>Many database queries can occur for a post with many referencing comments.</li>
<li>Only links to the last comment made by commenter (ie. if the commenter writes many comments before the @, the most recent one is linked to).</li>
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Comment Connection

Comment Connection is a Wordpress plugin that automatically links comments as authors reply to each other.

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Yin Zhongzhen

<p>This simple plugin automatically sends a notification email to commenters when someone replies to their comment. This feature can be enabled automatically by the site admin, or through an opt-in/opt-out checkbox below comment section on frontend.</p>
<p>It’s best to use it with an email-sending plugin like WP Mail SMTP, and with SMTP or transactional email service like SendGrid or Mailgun. Sending from your server via PHPmailer can cause deliverability issues (email notfications caught in spam).</p>
<p>I loved the original plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-reply-notification/" rel="ugc">Comment Reply Notification</a> (by @denishua) for its simplicity but it was abandoned and stopped working years ago. So I forked and revived it to work with the latest PHP and WordPress. I also improved some wording, removed unnecessary author links in the email notifications, and also keep it more updated. Credits to Denis who first hacked it 5 years ago, and later Walter for fixing string escapes.</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Feature modes – disabled, author/admin replies only, automatically, checkbox opt-in.</li>
<li>Edit email notification – subject and message.</li>
<li>[year] shortcode for dynamic year in email templates.</li>
<li>Developer-friendly hook for adding custom shortcodes.</li>
<li>Fixes issue with email notifications for moderated comments.</li>
<li>Can delete plugin options – after deactivation.</li>
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Comment Reply Email

Commenters can receive email notifications of replies to their comments.

Comment Connection vs Comment Reply Email