Comments on: Want More Professional Comments? Just Add Style!

By: Sanjin

Sanjin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:55:53 +0000

Well it looks like I am the last one to say this but, Thank you Chris for sharing and for your great post. Any help that I can get for my site is a huge! Thanks again.

By: brandtson

brandtson — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:27:01 +0000

its a no brainer.

By: C. Dog

C. Dog — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:26:29 +0000

Pretty good tips, I have to admit. Honestly, I never would have considered thinking about using style as a way to encourage better comments more intelligently written. I always thought that the banter between myself and my commenters would dictate the level of professionalism in their commentary. Great post. Love to see more information like this.

By: wondercorn

wondercorn — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:03:42 +0000

I totally agree with you Chris. For years I didn’t got any clues about how I was supposed to reply, and that becomes even more terrifying when you cannot satisfy everyone reply. I started to wonder, maybe that is because I get it all wrong.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:58:28 +0000

This is so true. For over a year I struggled with this particular issue, unable to generate hardly any comments in response to any of my posts. It was very frustrating to say the least. I did find by making some tweaks to the aesthetics, I seemed to get more comments than before the tweaks. I also agree that responding to the comments in a timely and engaging matter not only encourages a response, but also encourages others to post their comments.

By: Rodney Ash

Rodney Ash — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:43:13 +0000

I agree with you Krista. Even today a couple of years later there is no shortage of people who call themselves designers who are releasing themes into the marketplace by buckets full. They have no design sense including typography, color or spacial relationships. Very little flare as you say.

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:30:07 +0000

Looks like we’ve reached the threaded comments limit (which is one of the reasons you don’t like them I believe)… ;-)

Ok, so sometimes it really doesn’t matter what the other stuff says, as long as enough people have reported that it works, you go for it (in general). I have done this before, several times, but it always makes me nervous.

Thanks for indulging my questions!

By: Chris Pearson

Chris Pearson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:25:03 +0000

There is a box beneath that message that indicates this plugin works with the current version of WordPress. That’s pretty much the bottom line.

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:20:29 +0000

Oh no! I’ve dragged you further into a thread! [...cue sinister laugh]… :)

I thought you would mention this plugin, but I just wanted to make sure.

I have a question though… When do we know to care about these types of messages on the plugin info page, and when not to?

“Subscribe to Comments
Compatible up to: 2.3.1
Last Updated: 2007-12-14″

By: Chris Pearson

Chris Pearson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:10:46 +0000

Hi Chris (agreed on the name weirdness!), the "notify me of followup comments" text is the result of the fantastic Subscribe to Comments Plugin. Best of all, Thesis supports this plugin, so all you have to do is activate it, and you'll be good to go :D