One of the good things that add interactivity to the WordPress site is allowing visitors and followers to leave comments and likes on articles and content in general. Comments include both ratings and opinions about what the site offers, which allows the owner to get an idea of followers’ trends to improve the content further.
There are several add-ons that take care of this aspect and allow you to activate comments and like buttons, and this is what we will talk about in this article with an explanation of how to send notifications, upload files attached to comments, and other options that help you manage comments within your site with great professionalism.
Additions to activate likes and comments within the site
WordPress provides a variety of plugins that allow you to activate likes on articles, products, and even comments, while leaving reviews that will influence followers and attract them in order to interact on the site more and more.
1- Add Like Button Rating
A free add-on that allows you to activate likes on various sections of the site and the store, with full customization, as you can leave a like on:
- Comments.
- Pages.
- WooCommerce products.
- Jobs
- BuddyPress activities and members.
- bbPress posts and users.
- User profiles.
- Custom post types.
This add-on is considered a serious option for activating comments likes and managing them professionally, because it provides many features and options, including, for example:
- GDPR compliant.
- 80+ settings, 41 like button templates and 40 languages.
- Custom templates and images.
- Works with cache plugins like WP Super Cache, WP Total Cache, CloudFlare, etc.
- Sort content by ratings.
- Statistics about voting in one of the paid versions of the add-on (PRO/VIP/ULTRA).
- Provide real-time reports.
- Possibility of use in more than one site.
- Sending notifications of new likes and ratings to the admin via email.
- Track users by IP, device information, or cookies.
- Show followers’ likes in a special box.
- Compatible with myCRED and GamiPress .
- Display an interface that includes the topics and content most liked by visitors.
- Display the content that the current visitor to the site liked using the short code [likebtn_liked_by_user].
- Shortcode [likebtn] to show the like button on a page or article.
- Display the number of likes and the number of likes in a post using the symbols [likebtn_likes] and [likebtn_dislikes].
- Disable the like button on a page or article using the short code [likebtn_off].
- Display the number of likes in a category or classification using the short code [likebtn_category_likes].
- Sending notifications to the content writer when his content on the site is liked.
- Save all your likes and dislikes in BuddyPress.
- Compatible with WPML plugin.
- Controlling the number of likes, changing them, and the ability to set a random initial number of likes.
- Full customization of button design using CSS, positioning of buttons and changing the alignment, along with selection and text.
- Show a dedicated place for likes and their number in each post.
To start using the add-on and benefit from all its features, install and activate it on your site, then go to its settings tab within the control panel, and enter the settings tab, which you notice asks you for some data such as your email, API key, and site ID. You must Enter this data that I will tell you how to get, then click on the Save Changes button:
To obtain this data, register a free account on the add-on website LikeBtn.com using your email and a password. After creating the computer, the required data will appear to you, which you can copy and paste into the add-on’s settings tab, such as API key, which is the API key, as well as Site ID, which is an identifier. the site:
After completing the registration step and activating the add-on, you can now enter the Buttons Tube in the add-on settings panel, where you can choose the types of content that you would like the like button to appear inside, such as articles, pages, and many types of content, including comments. Choose the types of content that you would like to see. The Like button appears on it, and do not forget to click on the Enable button option:
After that, you will notice that the Like button appears below all comments on your site:
As we mentioned in the introduction, the addition allows you to control the shape, appearance, and method of appearance of the Likes button, so you can go to the Settings tab, and start customizing the button, such as changing the text that appears on the Like button as well as the text that appears on the Dislike button, and if you browse the settings menu You will find all the options and settings that we talked about in the introductory introduction, in addition to:
The add-on also provides a (Statistics) tab through which you can view statistics on visitors’ response to the Like button, such as the number of times the Like button was clicked, as well as the Dislike button and other statistics that show you how your visitors respond to the Like buttons on comments:
2- Add Comments Like Dislike e
Another easy-to-use addition allows you to leave a like or dislike on comments by clicking on the icon that allows this, with the ability to choose the design and color of the icons as desired.
The addition includes a group of important features, which we mention below:
- Control the status of the button to enable or disable liking and disliking comments.
- The ability to specify the location of the like and dislike icon to be above the comment or below the comment.
- Determine the way to display likes, where you can choose to display only the like button, display the dislike button along with it, or hide one and display the other.
- The ability to restrict dislike according to specific IP addresses, or make it available to everyone without restriction.
- Icon arrangement: like icon, then dislike icon, or vice versa.
- Choose between 4 available icon designs including emojis.
- Download custom icon design.
- Change icon color.
- Adjust color settings.
- Adding custom CSS code to control how icons are displayed.
- The ability to modify likes and dislikes in the comments section.
3- Add Subscribe To Comments Reloaded
A wonderful free addition that allows visitors to subscribe and receive notifications about new comments and responses, with full control over the type of notifications by choosing the content about which you will receive comment notifications, or suspending the subscription partially (stopping notifications in some posts) or completely.
The latest version of the add-on includes solutions to many of the problems that existed in previous versions, and it also includes new features such as allowing the admin to enable the double subscription mechanism, which requires users to confirm their subscription by clicking on a link they receive via email or even unsubscribe with one click.
The addition includes a group of important features, which we mention below:
- Easily manage comment subscriptions.
- See the number of comments for each post.
- Subscription messages are fully customizable, and even modified using HTML.
- Disable subscription to specific posts.
- Unsubscribe with one click.
- Possibility to upload your information to get better assistance.
- The add-on can be translated into several languages.
Add-on requirements:
In order to benefit from the plugin, the versions of WordPress, PHP, and the database must be as follows:
- WordPress version 4.0 or higher.
- PHP version 5.6 or higher.
- MySQL version 5 or more.
4- Add DCO Comment Attachment
A free add-on that allows visitors to leave a comment on the site and attach photos, videos, audio recordings, documents and other files to their comments, while automatically adding links to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and various social media platforms in the text of the comment.
The add-on includes a group of important features, which you control from the add-on settings, which we mention below:
- Specify the maximum file size attached to the comment.
- Make attaching a file in a comment mandatory or optional.
- Specify how the uploaded file will be displayed, either showing it in its entirety or showing it as a link.
- Enable/disable automatic links from social media sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- Determine the size of attached images from WordPress media.
- Link a thumbnail to a larger image (thumbnails).
- Display the image in full size in a new tab, and link it to a smaller one.
- Enable/disable multiple file uploading.
- Collect photos and display them in a photo gallery.
- Specify the types of attached files.
- Determine who can upload files to the site: all visitors or only those who log in to the site.
- The ability to manually edit comments that contain attached files.
- Add, replace or delete an attachment from a comment.
- Attach an unlimited number of files attached to the comment in the control panel.
- The ability to delete an attachment from a specific comment or delete group attachments from comments.
- Show comment attachments on the current post (or a specific post) using the shortcode [dco_ca].
- You can also sort attachments by type.
- Attachments are uploaded to the WordPress media library and deleted with the comment (if this is set in the settings).
5-Add Comment Reply Email Notification
A free add-on that allows users to be notified when someone responds to their comments via email.
You can customize many things in the add-on based on its settings, which are as follows:
Customize the email template
In order to customize the email template, you must download it from the Github website from here and then put it in the child template of the template used on the site at this path:
/wp-content/themes/[THEME]/templates/cren/” folder
Modify the label of the GDPR checkbox
The label of the GDPR checkbox can be changed to your liking.
Note: The plugin uses the automatic email sending feature of WordPress. If the plugin does not work, you must ensure that sending email is possible from the site by installing the smtp plugin and trying it.
6-Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools
A free add-on for deleting suspicious comments. It is very effective in getting rid of all inappropriate comments that do not respect your site’s terms of use, with ease, as it puts in your hands a set of tools that can control the content of comments with the push of a button.
The add-on includes a set of important features that will control comments perfectly, which we mention below:
- Determine the minimum comment in terms of the number of characters and words and the maximum size.
- Delete suspicious links from comments.
- Block duplicate comments.
- Open comment links in a new tab.
- Delete comments or turn them into spam from the comments interface in the control panel.
- Activate the voice commentary feature and display it in the control panel.
- Set a length of time between comments to avoid automated bot comments.
- Adding a recaptcha to comments to avoid commenting by bots and spammers is added to the user’s cookie when they leave a comment, and if the cookie is not present, the comment will be marked as spam by bots.
- Automatically control comments by specifying unwanted keywords, and the comment will be automatically deleted as soon as it contains one of the keywords you specified.
- Email subscription feature when you comment and ask for notifications.
- The ability to attach various files to comments, whether photos, videos, or others, with full control and management of them by specifying their type, size, and display method.
- Use emojis to analyze sentiment in comments and delete those that incite violence or hatred.
Conclusion
Now we reach the end of the article in which we talked about the most important add-ons that you need in order to manage comments and add likes on the site. What you have to try is to benefit from its many advantages, including increasing interaction within the site.
Adding comments on the site has many advantages, and it also has many other disadvantages, as you provide a place for visitors to express their opinions and post evaluations of the site’s content. However, there is a part of the followers who will not take advantage of the comments to present their opinion, but rather to publish various other things that may be far removed. About the site’s content and trends, or even publishing words that contain insults, insults, and defamation of a specific party or person, not to mention suspicious links that may include viruses or device hacking tools, or even publishing information and promotional content for other suspicious sites.
Here comes the role of the site administrator, who is responsible for monitoring the comments one by one, and deleting every suspicious comment or one that contradicts the rules and conditions of use on the site.
