My post – WordPress Plugins I Like #2 was incomplete as I wanted to list all the plugins I use, but due to lack of time I was unable to do so. However, as promised here are the rest of the plugins that I use.
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Subscribe To Comments: This plugin allows your readers to subscribe to comments, so if a comment is made and they have subscribed it will send them an email about it with the comment. Really helpful for bloggers & readers alike.
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FD Footnotes: Let’s you put footnotes is a very easliy.
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Dagon Design Sitemap Generator: Makes a really really nice sitemap for your site. It also allows you to link your XML format sitemap too. A demo.
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Genki Announcement: Make announcements, place them wherever you want, customize the appearance, set a date till which you want the announcement to be shown. Simple & helpful.
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FeedBurner FeedSmith: Integrate you feedburner account to you site for RSS subscriptions. Ifyou don’t have a feedburner account, get one.
Keeping the last for the best. A lot of search & I finally found it:
NOTE: As pointed out by Christian (plugin author) below, please use this plugin at own risk.
I will recommend you not to use the plugin as it also breaks the Subscribe to Comments plugin.
Ajax Comments WMUipied – Though development on this has been abandoned, it works with the current versions of WordPress & is the best Ajax Comment plugin out there. I have tried almost all the ajax comment plugins & found last and found it to be better than all. A demo is on my site itself.
You might want to remove the horrendous fluorescent green though. To do this:
Open the plugin directory, navigate to the ajax-comments.js file. Open to edit it.
Find the following:
Effect.Highlight(ajax_comments_msgc,{duration:3,startcolor:’#99ff00‘})}})}});return
Change the color code to whatever you wish to match your blog theme. If you want to eliminate it, just make it to the same as that of your WP body color.
If you want to remove/edit the notification text, you will need to remove/edit the following leaving the quotes. Just remove the bold part.
ajax_comments_message(’Your comment has been saved.’,true);
June 16th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Hi Manan,
I’m surprised to hear that there’s no better plugin out there yet. There’s another bug in with the error-messages, not exactly sure what it was – it’s just a minor thing, but I think people should know.
Something like if you post an incorrect message (e.g. no text), the error text freezes. Uhm, well, it’s been a while.
Still the code is free gain and maybe someone wants to dig through and iron out the annoyances
June 16th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Oh, yes, another, rather big issue: The plugin breaks some other plugins on the Ajax’d comments, like Ajax Edit Comments (ironic, is it not?). So I’d heavily suggest some extended testing before putting it on a live blog.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Hey Christian, thanks for dropping by. It is really sad that you discontinued development on the plugin. I have tested more than 3-4 ajax plugins, one changed the entire text box, another did not allow you to post a comment after one posted as in it hid the comment form, I tried the WPAjaxified thing, could not get it to work.
But this plugin worked keeping my theme intact and not having me to do a lot.
Considering that you have pointed out a major flaw of breaking the whole thing when a no comment is submitted, I shall edit my post adding a word of caution.
Thank you for dropping by.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Nice. been looking for a AJAX comment system, maybe will use this one
@Christian Can you elaborate on the error-text freeze thing? Seems to work fine on Manan’s site, giving me this error:
June 16th, 2008 at 11:21 am
I tried it and it gave the message but broke the theme too, I think that is what he is referring to.
June 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Ajax Comments? cool
Is it only me who is not getting notified by e-mail?
June 16th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Haha, the Ajax Comment thing works nicely
Makes me want to put in another comment just coz.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The Comment notification works, I am getting mails. You not?
June 16th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Neat !! I like the announcements plugin. Should give that a try sometime
June 16th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Now these are some plugins
June 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
err..i like em
June 18th, 2008 at 11:49 am
No I am not getting any :S
June 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
@Reetesh: Can’t see your name in the subscription list
Got the problem, the Subscription plugin does not work with the Ajax Comment plugin. Damn! Disabled the Ajax Commenting plugin.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:06 am
Thanks manan for these plugins and al the previous ones…Sathya told me abt it .. congo to him too…
June 12th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
There really should be some added code to prevent users from entering completely empty messages.