Hi, Hope I’m asking this in the right place – if not could it be moved to the relevant place?
Basically I have a website that has hundreds of both post and page comments. I’m looking for a plugin that can help organise these into a user-friendly form.
I looked at turning the comments into a forum with bbPress. With the “bbPress Topics for Posts” plugin I was able to get all the post comments into the forum. Unfortunately there are 2 major drawbacks that I can see. Firstly I can’t seem to integrate the Page comments – only the post comments are integrated. And secondly, it does not have the ease of use for customers that the WP comments system has – it requires the user to “register” to be able to post. As about 50% of our comments are customer feedback this is not a good option – it’s hard enough getting them to leave feedback, and adding a “register” step makes it even harder. The only other option I see is to allow anyone to post to the forum without moderation. This isn’t useful either as it opens the door to spam.
So, in brief I am looking for a plugin that can do the following:
– Integrate all existing comments (both posts and pages).
– Allow users to comment without having to register or login (but have all new comments go into a moderation queue before going live – just as in WordPress comments).
– Make the comments/forum simple to navigate so users can easily find answers to their questions.
Does anyone know of a plugin (or set of plugins) that can help me achieve this end?
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(@acerjay)
10 years, 11 months ago
Hi, Hope I’m asking this in the right place – if not could it be moved to the relevant place?
Basically I have a website that has hundreds of both post and page comments. I’m looking for a plugin that can help organise these into a user-friendly form.
I looked at turning the comments into a forum with bbPress. With the “bbPress Topics for Posts” plugin I was able to get all the post comments into the forum. Unfortunately there are 2 major drawbacks that I can see. Firstly I can’t seem to integrate the Page comments – only the post comments are integrated. And secondly, it does not have the ease of use for customers that the WP comments system has – it requires the user to “register” to be able to post. As about 50% of our comments are customer feedback this is not a good option – it’s hard enough getting them to leave feedback, and adding a “register” step makes it even harder. The only other option I see is to allow anyone to post to the forum without moderation. This isn’t useful either as it opens the door to spam.
So, in brief I am looking for a plugin that can do the following:
– Integrate all existing comments (both posts and pages).
– Allow users to comment without having to register or login (but have all new comments go into a moderation queue before going live – just as in WordPress comments).
– Make the comments/forum simple to navigate so users can easily find answers to their questions.
Does anyone know of a plugin (or set of plugins) that can help me achieve this end?