@Cord: Thanks for your comment. I’m glad you find the plugin useful.
The next version will have the ability to specify multiple recipient. Just have some outstanding testing to do on it before I release.
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 July 12th, 2007 at 4:15 am
By: Owen
on July 11th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Owen - Let me first compliment you on a fantastic plugin! I absolutely love it. Excellent job.
Now if you do not mind can I make a suggestion for the next version? I would love the opportunity to respond to more than one commenter in a single response. In other words, if I have three people comment on a post, I could click on all three of them to receive one comment I wrote.
What do you think? Thanks again!
By: Cord Silverstein
(2 comments)
on July 3rd, 2007 at 4:46 am
Thanks Pelf! You’re a star !
By: Owen
on July 2nd, 2007 at 11:09 pm
I blogged about your wonderful plugin here, Owen!
By: pelf
(1 comments)
on June 28th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I figured out the problem of the user level. Just check your name and set youself to admin. If someone else said this, so what, I wanna feel smart. LOL
By: Jenny
(4 comments)
on June 27th, 2007 at 12:06 am
I tried that but did not solve the problem.
By: Cristian
on June 26th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
@Cristian: Have you tried disabling the WP AJAX Comments plugin to see if it makes the problem better ?
By: Owen
on June 26th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
My Icons are unclickable too
I`m usign WP Ajax Comments
By: Cristian
on June 25th, 2007 at 3:20 am
@Cynthia Blue: Have you confirmed your admin user has a user_level of 10? Sometimes wordpress doesn’t assign a user_level to the admin user and this has proved to be the thing that trips up the plugin the most.
By: Owen
on June 25th, 2007 at 3:18 am
@A Marques: Hmm .. it should work well with the other plugin. I’ll run some tests and get back to you.
By: Owen
on June 24th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Ugh, I just installed a new template and now the comment email responder isn’t working… hrmph. Been looking at it for a couple hours now and not sure why. If you get a sec… 
By: Cynthia Blue
(6 comments)
on June 24th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Any chance you’ll be making one for Blogger?
By: weirdgrrl
(1 comments)
on June 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
Olá Owen, I’ve just installed your plugin and I believe it’s working fine! Thank you very much for your contribution!
By: Carola}i{
(1 comments)
on June 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Hi,
Great plugin. Exactly what I was looking for.
But… I have a little problem.
Actually, I also have installed the Subscribe-to-comments plugin and if someone is already subscribed, they still get the second email from your plugin.
Any ideas?
It’s kind of bad for a reader to be “bombed” twice.
Thanks for any help.
By: A Marques
on June 13th, 2007 at 6:18 am
exactly what I was looking for and works a treat!
Kudos!
By: Lee
(1 comments)
on June 12th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Yes is there in the header.
Cheers.
By: Frédéric Panek
(1 comments)
on June 11th, 2007 at 4:22 am
@Rodrigo: Yup, this will be there in the next version. Working on it right now 
By: Owen
on June 11th, 2007 at 4:20 am
@Frederick: Can you confirm you have < ?php wp_head(); ?> in your template header?
By: Owen
on June 9th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Hello,
I just installed your plugin. It sure is a fantastic contribution to the wordpress blogging experience. Thank you.
However, I face a problem. The icon is properly appearing but when I click on it, nothing happens. I realized that there is a javascript function attached to the icon, but there seem to be errors.
Any help would be appreciated.
By: Frédéric Panek
(1 comments)
on June 8th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Hinching: “I usually respond to several comments within one single comment. Is it possible where the plugin could select multiple comment IDs so that I am ‘replying to 331,332,334 and 335′ all at once? Basically it means sending the same email to all 4 comment authors.”
Me too… Isn’t it possible?
[]’s!
By: Rodrigo P. Ghedin
(1 comments)
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