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! š
- Iām 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.
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 “noreply@domain.com” 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.