@Rory: Can you elaborate on the problem? There should be no issue with DoFollow. I’m running it all my blogs and haven’t seen any adverse effects.
If there’s anything I can help you with, just shout !
Description
The Comment Email Responder v2 is based on the work of Andrew Flusche who can up with the original concept and wrote the first iteration of this plugin. It’s purpose is to provide an easy mechanism for a blog administrator to email a response to one of the comments placed on the website. The response becomes a comment in the normal way, but also fires off an email to the commentor with the content of the response and his original comment.
Installation
1. Download the plugin file, unzip and place it in your plugin folder.
This makes the plugin available to WordPress and it should now appear in your Plugin folder. The zip file also includes an icon for the plugin which should also be placed in the plugin folder.
2. Activate the plugin
This “starts up” the plugin. At this point, the plugin is active, but won’t work correctly till it is configured
3. Configure the plugin
The plugin can be configured both from a new panel in the Options menu called Comment Email Responder. Please go to this panel and supply the required information.
Usage
Once the plugin has been activated you’ll notice a new icon appearing next to commenter names on your posts. Click on this icon to respond to the comment. When you save the comment, a copy will be emailed to the person who left the comment.
Download
Comments/Bugs
- The plugin behaves well with the Subscribe-to-comments plugin and won’t email someone who’s already subscribed to the comment thread.
- The plugin assumes the existence of the “comment_form” action which is optional for template creators. If this is missing in your template, please add it accordingly.
- The plugin assumes that your admin user is set to wp_user_level 10. While this is true in most cases, some WordPress installations mess this up. If the plugin doesn’t seem to work, check out the fix on Cynthia’s blog.
History
v1.0: Base release. Implementation by Andrew Flusche
v2.0: New version. Admin interface added and automatic insertion into template on activation
v2.1: Minor bug fixes
v2.21: Another couple of minor bug fixes
v2.3: Email now contains link to post together with a specified footer
Websites using this plugin
I love it when people use my work, so if you do, drop me a comment. I’d love to pop around and have a look at your blog.
Responses
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on April 21st, 2007 at 3:13 pm
By: owen
on April 21st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
@Andy: Threaded comments. Hmmm .. haven’t ever used them, and I haven’t tested the plugin against them. I might just try when I get a chance, so I’ll add it to my todo list …
By: owen
on April 21st, 2007 at 3:09 pm
@LCF: Thanks for the suggestion (and the code). I’m currently baking the next version which includes the link back to the post and the ability to specify a custom footer for the message
By: owen
on April 21st, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I have installed the plugin, and I’m trying it out today. I left it in its own folder with the icon, and it seems to work just fine.
It clashes a bit with the DoFollow plugin - I clicked on the wee envelope to respond and it opened up the two edit boxes re. the commenter. But I can live with that…I think.
By: Rory
(2 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I added this to my blog today. Great stuff. Thanks Owen.
By: Drew
(10 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Hey that is a great plugin. Keep up th wonderful job.
By: suni
(5 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 1:44 pm
for who can’t wait, edit the plugin and add this line near line #112 immediate after the like start with “$body = …”
$body .= “\n\nLink: ” . get_permalink($postData->ID);
By: LcF
(2 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Hi Owen
Any idea how this is going to work with threaded comments, where you already click on something to reply to someone?
By: Andy Beard
(4 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
it would be great if the email include a link back to the post
By: LcF
(2 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 12:24 pm
just a note, WP ajax comment edit plugin does not work with this plugin
By: Liew Fong
(1 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 3:42 am
@Tricia: I’m glad you like it. Hey that’s another idea for the plugin. I could also get it to put the name of the person you’re responding to in the comment box. Not quite threaded comments, but you know what I mean. I’ll be adding the post URL also, I thought about that when responding to people’s emails. It will help keep the conversation in one place huh?
If you feel the plugin deserves PayPal Love, head down to Andrew’s donation page: http://www.legalandrew.com/donations/ and give him some love there. He wrote the original code, and the plugin wouldn’t be where it is today without him. He’s also a student so probably needs it more than I do (assumption there).
By: owen
on April 21st, 2007 at 2:50 am
Err.. The envelope didn’t appear, and I’m not sure whether I’m missing something.. Hhaha..
By: pelf
(2 comments)
on April 21st, 2007 at 2:14 am
Owen this is fantastic! I downloaded the plugin and I’ve uploaded it for all of our blogs but I’ve only activated it and tried it on WebStyle so far. Did a test drive on my own comment to see how it worked email wise.
I love it already! I’ve been keeping my eye out for something like this recently too. You seem to have read our minds.
The only suggestion/request that I have would be if somewhere in the email reply the blog url or post url could be included.
That would help us easily get return visitors if they wanted to come back and comment again or see what else we’ve posted.
I guess we could put the web address in the email title but that doesn’t look so great. I opted to put my name and the website name. If you are able to implement this suggestion I’d love it if you’d let me know.
Now I’m off to activate the plugin on the rest of our many sites! Then I’ll have some fun commenting!
Does anyone else think Owen should put a Paypal donation button on his site???
I think he should. I’d make a donation.
By: Tricia
(1 comments)
on April 20th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
I really can’t thank you enough for this. It’s exactly the plugin I wanted.
Going to give you some linkylove on my blogs now. 
By: Marisa
(3 comments)
on April 20th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Downloading the new one as we speak errr type
By: Lisa
(20 comments)
on April 20th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
The bug whereby multiple comments on the post confuse the plugin has now been fixed
By: owen
on April 20th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I’m going to install this TODAY! And this is SO weird… but I was thinking of asking you to create a plugin like this - THIS MORNING!!!! Very freaky.
By: Amy
(6 comments)
on April 20th, 2007 at 11:23 am
@Cynthia: The plugin needs to live in the \plugins folder (not in a seperate folder under this). I’ll sort this out in the next version
By: owen
on April 20th, 2007 at 11:17 am
I attempted to install your plug… loaded it to my server (it’s not windows), activated it okay, but when I go to options and click save, I get this message: “Cannot load comment-email-responder.php” I don’t know what comment_form is or how to check if that is there on my skin… will do some looking. Thanks.
By: Cynthia Blue
(5 comments)
on April 20th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Owen.. this is a fantastic plug-in! I’m using it on my blog and it works great! You can add me to your list
By: Charlotte
(3 comments)
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