Admin Commenters Comments Count

Author:Scott Reilly

Version:1.2.1

Last update:2012-12-13

Compatibility:WP 2.8 – 3.5.1

Download:[ zip ]

Description:

Next to all appearances of each commenter’s name in the admin, this plugin shows a count of their total number of comments, linked to a listing of those comments.

Extended Description

Next to all appearances of each commenter’s name in the admin, this plugin shows a count of their total number of comments, linked to a listing of those comments.

By default in WordPress, it is not possible to tell via a single glance whether a particular commenter has commented before, and if so, how many times.

This plugin adds a handy feature to the WordPress admin pages to allow you to:

Quickly identify a first-time commenter
Quickly identify unfamiliar commenters that have in fact commented before
Quickly see how many total comments a particular commenter has made, and how many comments are pending
Easily go to a listing of all comments by a commenter, in order to see what and when they last commented, or what/when they first commented

This plugin adds a linked comment count next to every appearance of a commenter in the admin. The link takes you to the admin page listing all comments for that particular commenter. The count displays all approved comments attributed to that commenter. If you hover over the comment count, the hover text indicates how many pending comments they also have, if any.

Specifically, the linked comment count appears next to commenters in:

The “Edit Comments” listing of comments (including comment search results)
The “Edit Comments for ‘POST_TITLE’” listing of post-specific comments
The “Discussion” box of the “Edit Post” page for a post with comments
The “Recent Comments” admin dashboard widget

Commenters are identified by the email address they provided when commenting. If your site does not require that commenters submit their email address when commenting, this plugin will use the commenter’s name as the identifier, though since this is a publicly viewable piece of data it’s possible that multiple people could be posting under the same “name”, so this method has the potential to be not as accurate.

Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | Author Homepage

Find out more at the plugin’s WordPress Plugin Repository page.

Screenshots

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A screenshot of the ‘Edit Comments’ admin page with the comment count appearing next to the commenter’s name.
A screenshot of the ‘Edit Comments on POST TITLE’ admin page with the comment count appearing next to the commenter’s name.
A screenshot of the ‘Recent Comments’ admin dashboard widget with the comment count appearing next to the commenter’s name.
A screenshot of the ‘Discussion’ panel on the ‘Edit Post’ admin page with the comment count appearing next to the commenter’s name.

Installation

Unzip admin-commenters-comments-count.zip inside the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for your site (or install via the built-in WordPress plugin installer)
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ admin menu in WordPress

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Why would I want to see a count of how many comments someone made?
A. There are many reasons, some of which might include:

Quickly identifying a first-time commenter
Quickly identifying unfamiliar commenters that have in fact commented before
Quickly seeing how many total comments a particular commenter has made, and how many comments are pending
Easily going to a listing of all comments by a commenter, in order to see what and when they last commented, or what/when they first commented

Q. How does the plugin know about all of the comments someone made to the site?
A. Commenters are identified by the email address they provided when making a comment. If commenters are allowed to omit providing an email address, then their name is used to identify them (though this is potentially less accurate).

Q. Why does it report someone as having less comments than I know they’ve actually made?
A. Since commenters are identified by the email address they provided when making a comment, if they supply an alternate email address for a comment, the plugin treats that email account as a separate person.

Release Log

1.2.1

Add check to prevent execution of code if file is directly accessed
Note compatibility through WP 3.5+
Update copyright date (2013)
Create repo’s WP.org assets directory
Move screenshots into repo’s assets directory

1.2

Add CSS rule to set text color to white to supersede CSS styling done by latest Akismet
Default to gray comment bubble
Show blue comment bubble for authors with pending comment (consistent with how WP does it for posts)
Add ‘author-com-pending’ class to link when author has pending comments
Show orange comment bubble on hover over comment bubble
Re-license as GPLv2 or later (from X11)
Add ‘License’ and ‘License URI’ header tags to readme.txt and plugin file
Add banner image for plugin page
Remove ending PHP close tag
Note compatibility through WP 3.4+

1.1.4

Bugfix for notices when non-standard comment types are present (by explicitly supporting pingbacks and trackbacks, and ignoring non-standard comment types)
CSS tweak to prevent top of comment bubble from being clipped
Prefix class name with ‘c2c_’
Add version() to return plugin version
Note compatibility through WP 3.3+
Fix typo in readme.txt
Update screenshot-3
Add link to plugin directory page to readme.txt
Update copyright date (2012)

1.1.3

Properly encode emails in links to commenter’s comments listing (fixes bug where a ‘+’ in email prevented being able to see their listing)
Invoke class function internally via self instead of using actual classname
Note compatibility through WP 3.2+
Minor code formatting changes (spacing)
Fix plugin homepage and author links in description in readme.txt

1.1.2

Explicitly declare all class functions public static
Minor code reformatting (spacing) and doc tweaks
Note compatibility with WP 3.1+

1.1.1.

Bug fix (missing argument for sprintf() replacement)

1.1

If a commenter does not have an email provided, search for other comments based on the provided name
Treat class as a namespace rather than instantiating it as an object
Check for is_admin() before defining class rather than during constructor
Proper conditional string pluralization and localization support
Use esc_attr() instead of attribute_escape()
Fix dashboard display of commenter comment counts (prevent clipping of top of bubble, bubble background is now blue instead of gray)
No longer define background-position in CSS
Remove docs from top of plugin file (all that and more are in readme.txt)
Minor code reformatting (spacing)
Add package info to top of plugin file
Remove trailing whitespace in docs
Add Upgrade Notice section to readme.txt
Note compatibility with WP 3.0+
Drop compatibility with version of WP older than 2.8

1.0.1

Add PHPDoc documentation
Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
Update copyright date and readme.txt

1.0

Initial release

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