Just released Comment Reply Email…another free WPJ plugin!
Plugin Description:
Commenters can receive email notifications of replies to their comments.
This simple plugin automatically sends a notification email to commenters when someone replies to their comment. This feature can be enabled automatically by the site admin, or through an opt-in/opt-out checkbox below comment section on frontend.
It’s best to use it with an email-sending plugin like WP Mail SMTP, and with SMTP or transactional email service like SendGrid or Mailgun. Sending from your server via PHPmailer can cause deliverability issues (email notfications caught in spam).
I loved the original plugin Comment Reply Notification (by @denishua) for its simplicity but it was abandoned and stopped working years ago. So I forked and revived it to work with the latest PHP and WordPress. I also improved some wording, removed unnecessary author links in the email notifications, and also keep it more updated. Credits to Denis who first hacked it 5 years ago, and later Walter for sanitizing, fixing string escapes and other PHP deprecation issues.
- The plugin is free for your personal/commercial use, but do buy me a beer if you like it. Enjoy! 🙂
- I’m not responsible for what you do with it. If you have issues, you can ask for support on the WP.org repo.
Download Comment Reply Email:
I opened an issue on GitHub…
Thanks for the good suggestion. I replied.
Does the latest version work correctly?
Please update Github code by using latest version code.
Thanks, Yin.
Thanks for making this plugin. This is what I’m looking for. A quick question, does it create database entries that might grow larger as I accept more comments and reply to them?
Definitely not more than other plugins….I have 20k comments it doesn’t bloat my database at all. It simply adds an extra column in your comments table that stores option of notify or not (for each comment).
Thank you Johnny. I’ve installed the plugin and it works great.
Hi Johnny, the notification emails go straight to the spam folder because the sender is “[email protected]” Would it work if I change it to another email address? Thank you.
There are many reasons why an email goes to spam. But for sure, having a fake email isn’t going to help you.
Hello,
Really enjoy your plugin and thankful you are providing it for us to use. I was wanting to know if you are going to update to the current WordPress version of 5.8.1?
Thank you
Hi Jen, all my plugins work perfectly with the latest WordPress. Don’t worry. I use them myself on all critical sites. I just don’t have time to go updating all my plugin pages to say they work with the new version.
It does not work when you have moderated comments enabled. When you accept the comment or reply to the comment the email is not sent. It is only sent when the moderated comments are not active or when an admin replies from the dashboard.
Could you please fix it? don’t mind paying a beer or 2 or 3….
Thanks.
I use Jetpack’s comment reply notification service, does this plugin provide any extra facilities?
Hi Johhny,
I use your plugin but recently it gives an php error.
PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “comment_parent” on null in /wp-content/plugins/comment-reply-email/comment-reply-email.php on line 105
Which PHP version are you using?
hi,
php 8.1
Should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting. 🙂
Hi there,
Have below warnings on PHP 8.2 and latest wordpress/woocommerce .
Nov 05, 16:50:52
Warning: Undefined array key “comment_parent” in /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/comment-reply-email/comment-reply-email.php on line 116
Nov 05, 16:50:21
Warning: Undefined array key “comment_parent” in /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/comment-reply-email/comment-reply-email.php on line 116
Nov 05, 16:49:52
Warning: Undefined array key “comment_parent” in /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/comment-reply-email/comment-reply-email.php on line 116
Nov 05, 16:49:38
Warning: Undefined array key “comment_parent” in /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/comment-reply-email/comment-reply-email.php on line 116
The plugin is sending emails but not what I expect. I need to fix this, please help.
Here is a notification email I received:
p>OldManInTheWoods,Your comment on Jack Heart’s Conversations from the porch – Episode 42 has a new reply by Phil Hunter: so do I get email too Your original comment: Now we’ll see Comment link: https://jackheartblog.org/wp/2023/12/jack-hearts-conversations-from-the-porch-episode-42/.html#comment-28805 This is a system message. Please don’t reply to this email.
How long have you had it, Phil? Was it working before and just broke now with the last update?
Hi! First of all, many thanks for your plug-in! Secondly, I have the same problem and I have a feeling it’s since the last update. When I tested it a few months ago, I didn’t notice this problem if I’m not mistaken.
But I noticed a lot of talking about this issue here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replay-email-html-format-is-not-working/
Thanks, it’s being fixed!
Having a bug on a site (I believe since the last update). Having the plugin enabled removes the whole comment form. If you want details, I can email them to you. Thanks!
Please email them to me. And I’ll fix it ASAP. Also let me know which option you were using. Thanks!