Skip to content
  • Home
  • Fussy Vegetarian
  • Email Newsletter
Copyright Being Manan 2026
Theme by ThemeinProgress
Proudly powered by WordPress
  • Home
  • Fussy Vegetarian
  • Email Newsletter
Being MananManan reviews tech and gadgets
  • You are here :
  • Home
  • Computing & Internet
  • WordPress Plugins I Like #3
Computing & Internet

WordPress Plugins I Like #3

June 16, 2008

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.

  1. 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.

  2. FD Footnotes: Let’s you put footnotes is a very easliy.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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);

You may also like

Transitioning to Unifi for WiFi: The Expensive Lessons Learned

2025 Subscriptions Review

Walkthrough of my Homelab

Firewalla: A home firewall that everyone can use

Desk Cable Management: Master Guide for a Functional Desk

One Dock to Power the Work from Home Setup

Related

Tags: Blogging Tips & Tricks, wordpress plugins

15 comments

  • Christian has written: June 16, 2008 at 4:43 am Reply

    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 :)

  • Christian has written: June 16, 2008 at 4:45 am Reply

    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.

  • manan has written: June 16, 2008 at 10:22 am Reply

    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. :)

  • Sathya has written: June 16, 2008 at 11:09 am Reply

    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:

    CTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

    Error: please fill the required fields (name, email).

  • manan has written: June 16, 2008 at 11:21 am Reply

    I tried it and it gave the message but broke the theme too, I think that is what he is referring to.

  • Reeteshinator has written: June 16, 2008 at 1:04 pm Reply

    Ajax Comments? cool :D

    Is it only me who is not getting notified by e-mail?

  • Reeteshinator has written: June 16, 2008 at 1:05 pm Reply

    Haha, the Ajax Comment thing works nicely :D Makes me want to put in another comment just coz.

  • manan has written: June 16, 2008 at 2:36 pm Reply

    The Comment notification works, I am getting mails. You not? :?

  • Ritesh has written: June 16, 2008 at 5:01 pm Reply

    Neat !! I like the announcements plugin. Should give that a try sometime :)

  • jit has written: June 16, 2008 at 9:47 pm Reply

    Now these are some plugins :D

  • T has written: June 16, 2008 at 9:48 pm Reply

    err..i like em

  • Reeteshinator has written: June 18, 2008 at 11:49 am Reply

    No I am not getting any :S

  • manan has written: June 18, 2008 at 12:13 pm Reply

    @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.

  • Sid has written: June 21, 2008 at 2:06 am Reply

    Thanks manan for these plugins and al the previous ones…Sathya told me abt it .. congo to him too…

  • ZK@Web Marketing Blog has written: June 12, 2009 at 1:44 pm Reply

    There really should be some added code to prevent users from entering completely empty messages.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Me

Hi, I’m Manan and here I write about gadgets and technology. Find me on Twitter or Mastodon and my stream on Twitch. Get updates over email. Or sign up for the Newsletter.

Ad

Ad

Apps by Manan

Kryton Labs Logo Kryton Labs

Copyright Being Manan 2026 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Theme by ThemeinProgress