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IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!
Full comment and account data sync between Intense Debate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments stored locally on your own server.
Note: IntenseDebate is currently being maintained, but not actively developed.

IntenseDebate Comments


Sounded like a good plugin but it does not connect with your wordpress site after adding the plugin.  When trying to login it will always say login failed.  I even clicked the create new account and tried and it still failed.


Will not connect

IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog.  Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

Milan Dinić

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This plugin shows a message with link to signup page of Gravatar (pre-filled with e-mail address) to commenters and/or users who don’t have gravatar.
Message can be shown to:
<ul>
<li>unregistered commenters when they leave text input field for e-mail address</li>
<li>registered commenters to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>unregistered commenters after they post a comment in a dialog, to whom their entered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered commenters after they post a comment in a dialog, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered users in administration notices, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered users in admin bar, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered users on their profile page, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>users who fill registration form when they leave text input field for e-mail address</li>
</ul>
Options are fully customizable. See FAQ for more information.
This plugin is lightweight, it adds only one field in database which is deleted if you uninstall plugin using WordPress’ built-in feature for deletion of plugins. Also it will only load jQuery file to head of your page if it wasn’t already loaded by theme or other plugin(s). Checks for gravatar are done via simple AJAX. 
If you want to speed up your web site and save on bandwidth and server resources, it is recommended that you also install plugin <a href="http://jasonpenney.net/wordpress-plugins/use-google-libraries/" rel="nofollow ugc">Use Google Libraries</a> which will load jQuery file from <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google AJAX Libraries</a>.
In order to plugin works, it needs to be on server with PHP 5 and on WordPress 2.8 or above.
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Gravatar Signup Encouragement

Shows a message with link to Gravatar's signup page to commenters and/or users without gravatar.

IntenseDebate Comments vs Gravatar Signup Encouragement