I’m a person that’s usually constantly tweaking my WordPress install. It’s a hobby. There are few things that provide as immediate of a sense of accomplishment as getting some sort of tweak or hack or plugin working and working well. It’s a far cry from my day job which has as its most exciting element the possibility of seeing a packet go from A to B in the appropriate manner. Woohoo. As such, I’ve come up with yet another plugin to enhance certain aspects of the WordPress experience.
WordPress 1.5 has some reasonably powerful if simplistic comment spam combating measures based on blacklists. It’s surprisingly effective as long as you’re fairly proactive at keeping up with the blacklist. I was surprised one day to discover a slew of spam messages residing in the database. They weren’t displayed in my blog — though my customized asides plugin didn’t handle them perfectly and my comment counts were incorrect because they counted the spam comments which became my first clue that those comments were even in the database — and they weren’t visible in the admin interface. What the hell?
They’re there, you just can’t see them. They’ve been marked as spam by WordPress which is great. They probably are spam. But if you do happen to get a false-positive, you’ll never know about it unless you stumble across it like I did (yes, I had a couple of false positives and left some folks hanging). So, I came up with a plugin to let me see those comments if I choose, as well as provide some much-needed functionality to viewing comments in general.
Announcing the Paged Comment Editing plugin. No, doesn’t sound as fancy as the Image Headline plugin or even the Spell Checker plugin and your readers will reap no benefit, but it does have some merit for you, the WordPress author. This plugin overhauls the stock comment editing interface to provide the following capabilities:
- Finally page through all of your comments in the comment administration interface. The stock interface is limited to displaying the 20 most-recent comments. If you’re anything like me, you’ll burn through 20 in 2 days tops. You’ll now be free to read and edit every comment on your installation with ease. This plugin supports paging through your comments, including arbitrary numbers of posts per page as well as paging of comment searching.
- See the comments that can’t be seen. WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn added some reasonably powerful if simplistic comment spam combating measures based on blacklists. This is wonderful, but if a comment happens to be tagged as spam by WordPress you will never see it again unless you do it external to WordPress via phpMyAdmin or something like it. Therefore, you have no way of knowing if a comment was inappropriately marked as spam. This plugin makes those invisible comments visible again… but only when you want them. With appropriate blacklist in place, 99% of the things marked as spam will be spam and you certainly don’t want to sift through that all day. But it’s nice to be able to rescue that 1% that otherwise would have disappeared into the ether.
If you’re interested in including this functionality in your WordPress 1.5 installation, see this page for installation details.
Very useful plugin. But since the comments on my blog is quite rare, I don’t think I’ll give this plugin a go. But then again, thanks for taking the time to develop plugins for wordpress.
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paged-comments-config-sample.phpto configure, then save the file aspaged-comments-config.php.P.S. Very, very useful plugin, big thanxx
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very nice plugin. made life much easier for me. I was wondering if it would be possible to mark unread comments (different background color) for unread comments using cookie tracking or something else?
I know of a plugin called “since last visit”, can this one be combined in a way with the “mass edit mode” of “smart comment” plugin?
any hint would be appreciated.
I installed this plugin and everything worked great. But when I delete comments from your comments admin page, the comment count (WP’s “comments_number”) disappears. It doesn’t reset to zero or anything, it just disappears. So now, a hadnful of my posts don’t have a comment count. Please help.
Are you still working on this plugin? I get this error when I activate it
I am running Wordpress 1.5.1.2
What am I doing wrong?
Help me please!
Everyone who’s complaining they can’t get the plugin to work properly w. wp 2.0, go to: http://www.stilglog.com/wordpress-plugins/enhanced-post-views/
for a port of this plugin to Wp 2.0. After installing make sure you activate 3 plugins containing the title “Enhanced View” on yr wp plugin page.
Good luck.
Yeah, i was wondering that as well… does this work with WP 2.0?
Brian: When I open my Manage pg., I’m getting the following error msg:
Would you have any sense of what might be wrong & how to fix it? Is it possible that the error might be related to the new WP 2.0 user levels?
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I can’t get this to wordpress 2.0. Does the plug-in need updating or am I missing something?
I really miss using this plug-in it was really useful..