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Comment Reply Email (WPJ Plugin)

WordPress plugins Jun 18, 2020 by Johnny 12 Comments

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:

  • WordPress.org repo
  • GitHub repo

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12 Comments

  1. Martin

    August 13, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    I opened an issue on GitHub…

    Reply
    • Johnny

      August 13, 2020 at 12:40 pm

      Thanks for the good suggestion. I replied.

      Reply
  2. Luis

    January 31, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    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?

    Reply
    • Johnny

      January 31, 2021 at 7:06 pm

      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).

      Reply
      • Luis

        January 31, 2021 at 11:23 pm

        Thank you Johnny. I’ve installed the plugin and it works great.

        Reply
  3. Luis

    June 20, 2021 at 5:52 am

    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.

    Reply
    • Johnny

      June 20, 2021 at 10:32 pm

      There are many reasons why an email goes to spam. But for sure, having a fake email isn’t going to help you.

      Reply
  4. Jen

    November 3, 2021 at 4:42 am

    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

    Reply
    • Johnny

      November 3, 2021 at 8:34 am

      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.

      Reply
  5. Antonio

    January 31, 2022 at 4:23 am

    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.

    Reply
  6. Mukesh

    November 4, 2022 at 7:56 am

    I use Jetpack’s comment reply notification service, does this plugin provide any extra facilities?

    Reply

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