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Avinash Mishra on "Allow time spent feature on blog post before posting comment"

Avinash Mishra — Sat, 27 May 2017 02:59:11 +0000

Many readers just comment to build some backlinks and they do spam comments. Even they use many automated commenting tools. They just copy and paste generic comments in various posts on different websites. However we have various tools to stop spam comments like human verification, captcha, etc. But, including this another feature i.e., time spent on reading specific content/article will set another milestone to make web spam free, engaging along with establishing wordpress as highly productive CMS.

Blog/Website admin should have flexibility (Before publishing any article) to set expected threshold time to read specific article based on its length. It'll determine to find out genuine blog reader, it will give lagging to many automated commenting tools, will trigger Google to implement bounce rate algorithm, it will make WordPress more and more famous among various CMSs, also it will help to trust particular reader or commentator based on time spent to read article and then posting quality comments.

Implementing time spent on particular content with WP-COMMENT feature will be revolutionary, especially among bloggers. It will even excite Google to make changes in their algorithm.

Think upon it!

webbrewers on "A ui switch that REALLY turns comments off"

webbrewers — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 02:45:19 +0000

Spammers don't use the visible comments box anyway, so "hiding" it isn't an effective way of killing spam. I'd like to see an option in settings that disables the commenting functionality completely so spammers can't tap into it - and I can stop adding // to the templates.
Slam dat spam!

billseymour on "Fill last page of comments"

billseymour — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:06:19 +0000

Presently, WordPress appears to fill pages of comments by "fill first page of comments". This produces the following type of display: if 9 comments, Discussion set for 4 comments per page, and default to Last page (most recent comments), one gets:
Default page: comment 9 only
Page 2: comments 8,7,6,5
Page 1: comments 4,3,2,1

This makes very little sense to a visitor, who sees that there are 9 comments, but only sees one comment (#9) on the landing page, and must immediately page through the comments to even see #8.

Suggestion: Provide checkbox/method for a user to select "Fill Last Page of Comments". In this way, one "fills the last page fully, then fills the next page". This would produce:

Default page: comments 9,8,7,6
Page 2: comments 5,4,3,2
Page 1: comment 1

This occurs (non-threaded) in two plugins that are no longer being developed:
Paged-comments http://www.keyvan.net/code/paged-comments/
Paginated-comments http://www.badspiderbites.com/paginated-comments/

Thanks! --Bill

coralbrief on "A "hold until later" section for comments"

coralbrief — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:26:29 +0000

Sometimes I receive a comment that is in my pending section that I want to hold for a later time. Sometimes I want to reply to it before posting; sometimes I want to get clarification from the person who sent the comment before I approve it; sometimes, because of the nature of my blog, I think the person might want to be anonymous but they posted with their name and I'd like to get confirmation that it's OK to use the name; sometimes, it is clearly a private message and I want to save it but not post it. I'd like to move that kind of comment out of my "pending" section (so that I don't accidentally approve it). I don't want to put it in "trash" since that will purge in 30 days. And it doesn't belong in "spam". I would like an additional choice: "hold until later" or something like that.

Coogie on "Disable comments on individual images in gallery"

Coogie — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:43:43 +0000

I know there is a way to disable comments on all posts by going through the settings. The problem is that even with those disabled, when I have an image gallery (I like Jetpack), I still noticed dozens of spam comments that I have to waste time going back and marking as spam.

There has to be a way to disable comments and even better, have them off by default.

annasue on "Subscribimg to threads"

annasue — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 19:00:42 +0000

I wish you could subscribe only to your thread, rather than a general category where you get a lot of chatter about which you have no interes.

vaakash on "Move comments from one post to another"

vaakash — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:18:57 +0000

It will be nice to have an "inbuilt" feature to move comments from one post to another. This will be helpful because, many users comment on wrong pages i.e they comment in the contact page, instead of the products own post page.

Those comment are valuable but it will be irrelevant to the content. So having a "move" option by default will be helpful.

This feature can turn WordPress into a mini support forum also..

huhno on "Make it easier to delete all (spam) comments"

huhno — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:14:12 +0000

I think most website owner experience after a while a surge in spam comments. Sure there are plugins out there to prevent them, but we all know that they are not working perfectly.

There are also plugins that allow us to delete (if wanted) all comments at once.

But so far there is no easy possibility for noobs like me to delete all comments at once. Perhaps a button with a pop up where you have to confirm it?

KeithHopkin on "Comment Thread in Email Notification and Approve Page"

KeithHopkin — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:34:52 +0000

When I receive a comment moderation email I can see the user's comment but not what they might have been replying to. There is zero context here. When I click the approve link it brings me to the wordpress admin panel to Approve the comment. I still have no idea what the context is.

It would be really helpful if I knew if they were replying to a user and maybe a post abstract.

Hansaplastique on "Rich comment editor in admin pages"

Hansaplastique — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 06:47:25 +0000

Every now and then I have to edit a comment posted by a user, or add media to a comment (not allowed by visitors) to illustrate something in a comment.

Unfortunately, the comment editor in the backend (admin pages) does not utilize the rich text editor (tinyMCE).

It would be great to enable this for comment editing in the backend.