Comment Mailer is a WordPress plugin that helps you maintaining the discussion on your blog by letting the commenters know that you have replied their comments on the comment section of your post. Everytime you post a comment to answer previous comments from your visitors, you’ll be given an option to send a notification email to a spcecific commenters. It’s simple and easy.
Why You Should Use This Plugin
- You’ll never know whether your blog commenters is going to visit back to look for your reply for his/her comment, subscribe a comment feed for a specific post, or choose to receive notification e-mail (if you provide one). By using this plugin, you’ll have a full control to decide whether it is necessary to notify a commenter for a new reply.
- It keeps the discussion rolling on your blog comment system.
Grab it
Installation
- Download the package and decompress it
- Upload the file named commentmailer.php to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Put it directly inside /plugins/, not in a subdirectory of it.
- Go to your Plugin activation section and activate the plugin
- Well done!
- If necessary, you can configure anything on the admin panel. Login into your wp-admin and select Options -> CommentMailer
Usage
If you are logged in as an administrator on your blog, you’ll see an additional list menu on the comment submission form. Select the commenters to whom you are going to send a notification e-mail. Then click the submit button as usual. Leave the rest to the plugin to work. If you install a localization files of this plugin, you will be able to select which language you want to reply in.
Localization
Localization plays an important role in this plugin since it determines the content of your notification e-mail.
| Language | Version | Translator | Source code | Binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahasa Indonesia | 0.1 | Huda Toriq | id_ID | id_ID |
| Français | 0.1 | Xavier Borderie | fr_FR | fr_FR |
| Japanese | 0.1 | Tai | ja | ja |
| Russian | 0.1 | Sol B. Salpagarov | ru_RU | ru_RU |
To use the localization, simply upload the desired .mo to your plugin directory (/wp-content/plugins/).
If you are using this plugin, please consider helping me translate it into your language, you can use the template (commentmailer.pot) file included in the plugin package archive. Please send the translation result back to me so I could commit them to the repository and provide the download link here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can my blog visitors use same list menu to send comment notification to the other commenters?
No unless they are registered as your blog user and are logged in when they are submitting a comment. Otherwise they would see the regular comment form, without the additional list menu.
The e-mail header configuration can only be filled with a single setting (single sender name, single e-mail address). How could a multi user blog specify multiple settings for the plugin?
You couldn’t. But you can leave it blank so that the display name and email address from the user profile will be used instead of the commentmailer option
Why I don’t see any extra options on the comment submission form?
It’s probably because your theme doesn’t have a hook called comment_form. I use this hook to automatically insert the multiple list menu containing the names of the commenters. Check your theme file for a code that look like this: <&php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); &> Usually it’s located inside ‘comments.php’. If you don’t have one, try adding it manually. Or, you can use this template tag: commentmailer_form()
Changelog
- November 28 2007 – Version 0.1
Dynamic localization (new menu for selecting desired e-mail language). Introducing new template tag:commentmailer_form().
View changes - September 2 2007 – Version 0.1-beta
Major fixes for previously broken functions. The multiple list is now working. - August 20 2007 – Version 0.1-alpha
Initial release. The multiple list is not 100% working actually. You could only send notification to 1 visitor.
Does this conflict with the ‘Subscribe to Comments’ plugin that emails everyone if they subscribe to a posts’ comments?
Is it possible to modify this to send comment notification to all registered users as well as to those who commented?
Awesome plugin man.
I am using it on http://alfred.co.in now.
Works like a charm.
Will write a review on this soon.
hi there,I’m glad to see the plug-ins that you designed.
but I have a question is the plug-ins work out with the mail server on it ?
I don’t want to see that send to others form.. how can I get rid of that?
Thanks,
Charles
@Ken Savage
No idea. I used that plugin once, but never used it together with this plugin. I never paid much attention to that plugin’s code. But it seems they share the same WP hook (just a guess). Duplicate email might be sent to a commenter that both subscribe to the comment and is selected as a recipient when the blog owner send a comment reply (again, just a guess). I’ll take a closer look to this case. Thx for reminding me.
@Russ Lipton
. That’s a good idea. Would help a multi author blog so much. I’ll put that to my to-do-list. If you need the implementation right away, feel free to modify it.
It’s WordPress plugin man, everything is possible
@Alfred
. I really appreciate that.
Can’t wait to read the review
@Cadmus
It uses WP’s integrated phpmailer class. It will select the best available method for sending email (SMTP, sendmail, etc). If you are able to receive WP’s notification email (new comments, password reset), you have a good chance to see it working on your blog.
@Charles
What do you mean? It’s the only way to use the plugin’s feature. If you don’t need it, then just deactivate the plugin
PS: Sorry if all of you receive this whole replies integrated in one email. This is one of the drawback if you reply comments altogether.
Mas huda, ada gak cara biar pengiriman balasan komentar itu ditujukan kepada semua komentator, bukan cuman pada salah satu orang komentator saja….
@Adis
Bisa kok mas. Setelah menginstal, di menu tambahan yang muncul, pilih aja semua pengomentar (shift+klik untuk memilih lebih dari satu)
asyik tuh plug in nya, thanks banget yaahh, kalo masih banyak di share asyik tuh banyak pahalanya
hehehehe
Hi there!
I love this plugin, it’s pretty neat.
Just one thing I’d like to see if perhaps a more careful selection of what is displayed, name-wise. I sometimes have one person commenting more than once. What happens is that their name appears multiple times. This can get really bothersome and take up a lot of space in the list.
Would it be possible to make a name appear only once in the list if it matches previous comments with the same name and email? And if someone has the same name but a different email, the order remains as newest name at the top of the list?
Thank you Sadil.
Yeah, you were right, sometimes it’s annoying to see those names repeated many times. I was thinking of using a checkbox on each comment rows at first. But the user will need additional stylesheet treatment to place them properly. And I avoided that. So I came up to the idea of using a multiple selection list.
But I couldn’t agree with your idea. Each option in the list have a unique comment ID. I make it that way so the email could quote the comment content to the email body. If you are replying to someone who commented more than once, you probably want the recipient know which comment that you are replying.
About your second idea, sometimes different people have the same name right? So I think grouping them by name isn’t a wise idea?
But if you want to make some modification to your installed plugin, feel free to do so.
Hey again!
Yeah, that makes sense. I didn’t look at it like that.
However, I was thinking about it and maybe this might be a small enhancement to the selection list: how about adding a time and date behind each name in the list? It would help identify the name with the comment better; instead of looking for a name, you can look for a date/time. It would be easier to find the right name to click for the comment you reply to, especially if your blog entry has 20+ comments on it.
Sounds like an idea? Or am I missing something again?
Thanks for creating this program and for offering it for free; I love the idea of CommentMailer. But I’m seeing error messages on my blog, so there must be some setting or code that needs tweaking. Can you help?
For example, it recently said at the bottom of the comments section at this post:
Warning: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /usr281/home/c/g/cgb/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/commentmailer/commentmailer.php on line 204
I’m not experienced enough to know what this means. Can you advise me what to do to fix this? (All I really know how to do is follow instructions — I don’t know php.)
Thank you! — Carolyn Bahm
Collierville, Tennessee, USA
@Sadil
. Btw, if you have suggestion for this plugin development, you could add some tickets to the bug tracker [1] or even submitting some patches 
.
Sorry for the late answer. Yeah, maybe a date or a comment excerpt could be helpful. I’ll put it on my TODO list. Please wait until the plugin update notification appear on commentmailer row in your Plugin administration page
[1] http://dev.wp-plugins.org/query?component=commentmailer&order=priority
@Carolyn Bahm
That’s because you put the commentmailer.php inside a /commentmailer/ subdirectory. Please put it right inside /wp-content/plugins/ rather than /wp-content/plugins/commentmailer
Salam Huda,
I can’t download the plugin. Would love to try the plugin. Appreciate if you can update the link. Thank you!
@Jenz Iggo
Done!
It seems WordPress.org changed the URL of each plugins hosted there. Thanks. wouldn’t noticed that if you hadn’t tell me.
Mas lagi-lagi aku gak bisa download plugin. Juga WP Indonesia 2.3.3
Mungkin mas lagi berbaik hati utk mengirim ke emailku atau dishare ke server mirror. Convert ke tar.gz atau rar.
Matur suwun sanget
Hey, I love this plugin, but it is no longer working for me. The problem started after I moved my blog directory from http://khristopher.com/blog/ to http://khristopher.com
This is the error message:
Warning: opendir(wp-content/plugins) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/userexample/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/commentmailer.php on line 204
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Huda,
I’m still having problem with the error code showing up. I have moved commentmailer.php right inside the plugins folder (not inside another folder) as you advised, but the error is still showing up.
For example, if you click on the comments for one of my recent posts,/a> you’ll see this at the bottom:
Warning: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /usr281/home/c/g/cgb/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/commentmailer.php on line 204
The plugin is working, but I’d like to resolve this for cosmetic reasons on my site. Can you please advise me?
Thanks — Carolyn
This is an addendum to my previous message: I’m using WordPress 2.3.3. Maybe it’s my theme causing the problem … but it’s happening on both of my blogs, which use different themes.
I also tried turning off other plug-ins but the error code remained.
Any suggestions?
Another follow-up:
I also did “view source” for the comments page that’s displaying the error — here’s what is on line 204 for that page (my error message mentioned line 204):
<a rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”
Don’t know if that’s helpful in de-bugging?
It’s been 12 days since I posted a request for help here — are you still supporting this plug-in?
mas huda..mantap nih jadi developer wordpress untuk indonesia..gmn mas caranya? salut deh…gmn cara bikin plugin untuk wp. pake bahasa apa mas…btw sorry banyak nanya soalnya newbie nih…salam kenal
web yg bagus, isinya bermutu tampilannya ga bosenin, nice blog
http://liriklaguhit.blogspot.com/
http://goglek.blogspot.com/
he…he… halo mas aku yang tadi. Aku mau tanya plugin ini buat apa ya… maaf aku nggak mudeng bahasa inggris…
mas huda, apa commentmailer ini sama dengan versi yang terbaru (0.1.3) di http://sit.24stunden.de/cmailer/ ? tapi kok pas tak cobain versi terbaru itu malah ga bisa ya? beda sama yang versi disini
Ini belum di update2 juga kah?
Padahal lagi nunggu ada penambahan fasilitas tautan ke komentarnya yang bisa di klik langsung dari email yang dikirimkan
thanks mas..
sukses pluginnya