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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).
<h3>Features / Details</h3>
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<li>Adds options to the Comments Admin page actions, for each comment, to mark it as Todo, Replied, or Ignore.</li>
<li>Comment blocks are given a background colour based on their actual or guessed state (default = todo).</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 ignored (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>
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<h3>Actions vs Status vs Highlights</h3>
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.
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 (todo, replied or ignore) that indicates the current choice.
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 replied 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).
For comments for which the user has not yet made a selection among the options (todo, ignore or replied), Response Tracker marks always marks the comment with status todo, 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 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 and a status of replied is that you, the blogger, might respond to a comment but want to retain it’s todo status because you want to add more details in a later response). The guess is then used to colour the comment block.
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.
<h3>Why All This Effort?</h3>
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:
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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.
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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.
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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 replied.
Another possible line of future development is to also add links in the post comments section to let authors mark comments from post pages.

Response Tracker

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

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Adds CubePoints support to Buddypress. Reward members using your BuddyPress portion of your website by giving them points and awards! IMPORTANT: You will need to install <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cubepoints/" rel="ugc">CubePoints</a> (at least version 3.0.1) first.
Integrates with the CubePoints Giveaway & Betting System
See full details on how the system works and how to get it <a href="http://store.slyspyder.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. But a brief overview is you can setup a giveaway where your members can enter a giveaway using points. They can get extra entries in the giveaway for sharing it on Twitter, Google+, Facebook and a few other ways and earn points for it!
There is a built in betting system so your members can bet their points against each other. If you have this system installed it displays the number of lotteries or bets they have not entered, in the top BuddyPress admin bar.
Here is what you can get points for. You can change these values or disable them in the BP CubePoints admin menu.
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<li>Group Creation</li>
<li>Group Deletion</li>
<li>Joining a Group</li>
<li>Leaving a Group</li>
<li>Updates/Replies</li>
<li>If a user deletes their own update/reply</li>
<li>Completed Friend Request</li>
<li>Canceled Friendship</li>
<li>New Group Forum Topic</li>
<li>Group Forum Post</li>
<li>Uploading Avatar</li>
<li>Uploading Group Avatar</li>
<li>Sending a Message</li>
</ul>
bbPress 2.0 Support
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<li>Give your members points for being active in your bbPress 2.0 forum!</li>
</ul>
Other BuddyPress Plugin Support
<ul>
<li><a href="https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress Links by Marshall Sorenson (MrMaz)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-gifts/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress Gifts by Warut Sudpoothong</a></li>
<li><a href="http://buddydev.com/premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">BP Gallery by Brajesh Singh</a></li>
</ul>
Plugin Authors Can Add Their Own Support for CubePoints!
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<li><a href="http://blog.slyspyder.com/?p=601" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation for plugin authors</a></li>
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Awards
<ul>
<li>Give your members another reason to be active on your website. </li>
<li>Have anywhere from 1 – 70 awards! Plus 1 more for earning all the awards on your site.</li>
<li>Customize each award image and title and the criteria for earning the award. </li>
<li>You can turn this feature off as well. </li>
<li>Simple:Press Forum Support.</li>
</ul>
Members can earn awards for a variety of things:
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<li>Groups</li>
<li>Friends</li>
<li>Posting Updates</li>
<li>Replies</li>
<li>Group Forum Topics</li>
<li>Group Forum Replies</li>
<li>Comments</li>
<li>Blog Posts</li>
<li>Blog Posts in a Category</li>
<li>Donations</li>
<li>Logging In</li>
<li>Points</li>
<li>Simple:Press Forum Posts</li>
</ul>
Adds CubePoints to the BuddyPress Profile
It shows the points the member has earned. Donate link and rank (if enabled).
Adds Points to the BuddyPress Admin Bar
It shows the points the member has earned. If you click on the points you can donate right from there. But only if “Enable user-to-user donations” is enabled.
Public Points Log
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<li>You can view the points you have earned right from your BuddyPress profile. Or view the logs of others on your BuddyPress site.</li>
<li>There is also a Sitewide Points log that displays the points everyone has earned.</li>
<li>You can choose how many point logs show up per page.</li>
</ul>
Point Legend
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<li>Shows all the ways to earn points on your site dynamically on what you enter from the admin menu.</li>
<li>Plus an option to put other ways to earn points on that page as well.</li>
<li>Simple instructions on how to enable a [earnpoints] shortcode for use in posts and pages.</li>
</ul>
Point Blocker!
You can enter in the User ID(s) of people that abuse the system just to earn points. After they are blocked, they will not be able to earn any points on the BuddyPress portion of your website.
Spam Control
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<li>Limit only members with a certain amount of points access to send new messages to other members.</li>
<li>Limit only members with a certain amount of points access to create new groups.</li>
<li>Limit only members with a certain amount of points access to updates & replies.</li>
</ul>

CubePoints Buddypress Integration

Adds CubePoints support to Buddypress. Reward members using your BuddyPress portion of your website by giving them points and awards!

Response Tracker vs CubePoints Buddypress Integration