yoast/comment-hacks

Make comments management easier by applying some of the simple hacks Joost gathered over decades of using WordPress.

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v2.1.2 2025-04-01 10:28 UTC

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Comment Experience by Progress Planner

Improve the comment experience on your site. Adds lots of features to make commenting easier and more engaging.

Description

This plugin adds many small improvements around core WordPress comments to make them more bearable:

  • Cleaner comment notification emails.
  • The option to enforce a comment policy.
  • The option to forward comments to an email address (for instance for your support team) and then trash them.
  • The option to disallow comments below a certain length.
  • The option to redirect first time commenters to a "thank you" page.
  • An input field on the comment edit screen to change the comment parent ID.
  • Links in the admin comments section to email individual commenters.
  • A button in the WP toolbar to email all the commenters on a post.

Screenshots

Screenshot of a clean comment notification email:
Screenshot of a clean comment notification email

The comment parent edit box:
The comment parent edit box

The plugins admin settings:
The plugins admin settings

The button on the frontend to email all the commenters on a post:
The button to email all commenters

The link in the backend to email an individual commenters on a post:
The button to email all commenters