ravisarma

<p>Response Tracker is a plugin for WordPress that lets bloggers keep track of comments on their posts by marking them as todo, replied, or ignored, in Comments Administration page in the admin dashboard. On the comments administration page, the plugin paints each comment block with a colour that either indicates the status set by the author (if any) or provides a hint on what the status might be (read below for an explication).</p>
<h3>Features / Details</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adds options to the Comments Admin page actions, for each comment, to mark it as <em>Todo</em>, <em>Replied</em>, or <em>Ignore</em>.</li>
<li>Comment blocks are given a background colour based on their actual or guessed state (default = <em>todo</em>).</li>
<li>Comments with a response from the post author are background coloured to indicate that.</li>
<li>Comments by post authors are automatically coloured <em>ignored</em> (though not marked so).</li>
<li>When new comments are added their parent (if any) is marked as responded if the response is by the post author.</li>
<li>A bulk mark option/link in the plugin admin page lets you automatically flag existing comments as responded to by author — this has to be used with care of course, in case your blog has thousands of comments. Mine has hundreds and that went through pretty quick.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Actions vs Status vs Highlights</h3>
<p>A word of explanation is called for with regard to Response Tracker’s logic of highlighting comments, since it can be (and probably is!) confusing.</p>
<p>Response Tracker colours each comment block in the Comments Administration page with a colour that says something about the status of that comment. The plugin also colours and highlights the action option (<em>todo</em>, <em>replied</em> or <em>ignore</em>) that indicates the current choice.</p>
<p>Where the user (author or blog admin) has explicitly clicked on one of these actions and made a choice, the highlighted action and the background colour of the comment block coincide in what they indicate. If the author (or blog admin) had previously clicked on the option <em>replied</em> for a comment, then this action link is highlighted and the comment block is coloured accordingly (see the plugin admin/settings page for a legend for the colours).</p>
<p>For comments for which the user has not yet made a selection among the options (<em>todo</em>, <em>ignore</em> or <em>replied</em>), Response Tracker marks always marks the comment with status <em>todo</em>, but also tries to make a guess on what the comment’s real status might be. If the comment is by the post author, then the plugin guesses that the comment can be <em>ignore_d. If the comment was responded to by the post author, then Response Tracker guesses that the status may be responded (the reason to differentiate between a guess of _responded</em> and a status of <em>replied</em> is that you, the blogger, might respond to a comment but want to retain it’s <em>todo</em> status because you want to add more details in a later response). The guess is then used to colour the comment block.</p>
<p>This is the reason for the otherwise puzzling nature of the colour highlighting and the action/option highlighting. Any good user interface should not require this much explication! In a later release, an attempt will be made to clear this up a bit while still retaining some of the logic.</p>
<h3>Why All This Effort?</h3>
<p>You may wonder why go to all this trouble? The threaded view of comments in the post page gives simple visual cues on what comments have been replied to and which ones are pending a response. Why not just use that to keep track of comment status? I have at least two reasons to prefer using the Comments Adminstration page for managing responses:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The Comment Administration page posts replies via AJAX, thus making it easier to mark or respond quickly to a large set of comments. There are AJAX commenting plugins for posts, but in my experience none of them quite do the trick, or if they do, they do so at the cost of messing up the look and feel of the theme in use.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The Comment Administration page can list all comments, not just ones related to a particular post, and sorted descending by date. A good way to scan latest comments, respond to them and mark them.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Additionally, the plugin also provides a mechanism for marking comments that can be ignored, and since it explicitly marks a comment with a status, it makes it possible to mark multiple comments in a single response and mark all the relevant comments as <em>replied</em>.</p>
<p>Another possible line of future development is to also add links in the post comments section to let authors mark comments from post pages.</p>


Response Tracker

Response Tracker lets bloggers track comments on posts by marking them as todo, replied, or ignored, in the Comments Administration page.

Arno Welzel

guhemama

<p>This plugin allows visitors to subscribe to get answers to their comments via e-mail.</p>
<h3>Warning</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the “wp_insert_comment” hook, therefore, everytime a comment is created, a notification is likely to be sent. If you are importing comments into your blog, it’s a good idea to disable this plugin.</p>
<h3>Sending e-mails does not work?</h3>
<p>The plugin uses the standard WordPress e-mail function. If you have problems getting e-mails sent, you might try using plugins like https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ to improve sending e-mails from your site.</p>
<h3>Customizing the layout of the checkboxes</h3>
<p>The label next to the checkboxes don’t contain a whitespace. Depending on your theme you might want to add a custom style like this to get a space between the checkbox and the label:</p>
<pre><code>input#cren_subscribe_to_comment, input#cren_gdpr {
  margin-right: 0.5em;
}
</code></pre>
<p>The plugin does not add this style be default as it depends on your theme if this is neccessary.</p>
<h3>Customizing the email template</h3>
<p>To customize the email template, copy the “templates” folder to your theme folder (a child theme should be used to avoid losing the custom templates when the theme is updated). The plugin will look for templates on the “/wp-content/themes/[THEME]/templates/cren/” folder; if a custom template is not found, then it will fallback to the default template.</p>
<p>Templates folder on GitHub: https://github.com/arnowelzel/worpdress-comment-reply-email-notification/tree/master/templates</p>
<h3>Changing the subscription checkbox label</h3>
<p>The checkbox label can be changed with the <code>cren_comment_checkbox_label</code> filter. This way you can update the text to your taste and keep the plugin updated.</p>
<h3>Changing the GDPR checkbox label</h3>
<p>The GDPR checkbox label can be changed with the <code>cren_gdpr_checkbox_label</code> filter. This way you can update the text to your taste and keep the plugin updated.</p>
<h3>Modifiying HTML output</h3>
<p>Using the filters <code>cren_gdpr_checkbox_html</code> and <code>cren_comment_subscribe_html</code> you can modify the HTML output of the checkboxes if needed.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('cren_gdpr_checkbox_html', function(string $html_output, string $label_text, string $privacy_policy_url): string {
    $html_output = '<div class="comment-form-gdpr-consent form-check mb-3"><input id="cren_gdpr" class="form-check-input" name="cren_gdpr" type="checkbox" value="yes" required checked><label for="cren_gdpr" class="form-check-label">' . $label_text . '<span class="text-danger fw-bold">*</span> (<a href="' . $privacy_policy_url . '" title="Privacy Policy" target="_blank" rel="internal">Privacy Policy</a>)</label></div>';

    return $html_output;
}, 10, 3);

add_filter('cren_comment_subscribe_html', function(string $html_output, string $label_text, bool $checked_default): string {
    $checked = $checked_default ? 'checked' : '';
    $html_output = '<div class="comment-form-email-consent form-check mb-3"><input id="cren_subscribe_to_comment" class="form-check-input" name="cren_subscribe_to_comment" type="checkbox" value="on" ' . $checked . '><label for="cren_subscribe_to_comment" class="form-check-label">' . $label_text . '</label></div>';

    return $html_output;
}, 10, 3);
</code></pre>


Comment Reply Email Notification

I always hated the WordPress default commenting system for one reason, it never sends a follow-up reply email to Comment Author. Guess, what? This plugin fixes it instantly. Of course, your e-mail system should be working in first place with proper SMTP services. 

It helps in keeping the user engaged. It's easy to use. There is sufficient option to be compliant with GDPR. The author of the plugin is professional, provides timely support. I wish him good health and happiness. 

If you're a serious blogger, I highly recommend this plugin. Go for it.

Must have plugin for Keeping User Enagaged

I recommend everyone to use this plugin and appreciate the developer's work.

This plugin works exactly the way we want to, plus it has the option to add a GDPR checkbox just below the comment.

Thanks for the plugin Arno!

Important Plugin if You Want Users to Return to Your Site


Excellent little plugin for a feature that should actually be native to WP.


Works perfectly

This plugin allows visitors to subscribe to get answers to their comments via e-mail.

Response Tracker vs Comment Reply Email Notification