Comments on: Contact Commenters WordPress Plugin Released!

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:56:21 +0000

@Ari,
This was reported in October last year by a couple of people and was fixed. You can download the new sources from the download link in the post.

I haven’t changed the plugin version yet and hence no upgrade option from your WP Admin panel.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:13:25 +0000

Noticing a bug with this plugin shortly after upgrading to WP 3.1.2.

The message text box won’t let me write more than 100 characters. It hangs at 100.

Ideas?

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:50:23 +0000

@Yoram, check if your normal WordPress notifications (like when someone posts a comment and if held for moderation) are coming through. If so, this plugin should work as well.

Usually on most shared hosting, you don’t need to do anything to setup your PHP mail. Just in case it doesn’t still work, try setting up your PHP.ini file from cPanel. There’s something like quickconfig or so… If you don’t know how to do it, please contact the support. Before that, make sure that the from address entered in contact commenters forms is valid.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:42:18 +0000

@mourad, due to lack of time for development, I couldn’t implement an opt-out feature as yet

By: Yoram Zara

Yoram Zara — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:13:33 +0000

I tried to send an e mail to 500 people using the plugin.

I got “Error while sending email(s). Please make sure that your server is set up to handle PHP mails”

I am on Blue Host. What should I do?

By: mourad

mourad — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:09:06 +0000

Great plugin, worked perfectly, but it misses an opt out feature…
I mean, when the user click in the opt out link in the message he will never be added to the contact list inside the plugin again

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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:08:52 +0000

[...] Contact Commenters – lets you communicate with the folks who’ve commented on your blog. You can select commenters using a nice variety of filters: most active commenters, commenters who used to post but who have not been active for xx days, people who commented on a selected post or within a specified date range, and more. Takes the work out of finding the email addresses post by post, but helps keep you from looking like a spammer at the same time. Used judiciously, it’s a convenient way to communicate with your blog’s readers. [...]

By: Willian

Willian — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:35:25 +0000

Great plugin, worked perfectly, but it misses an opt out feature…
I mean, when the user click in the opt out link in the message he will never be added to the contact list inside the plugin again.

By: 17 Plugins to Improve Your Wordpress Blog | Ari Herzog

17 Plugins to Improve Your Wordpress Blog | Ari Herzog — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:02:29 +0000

[...] Contact Commenters, the subject of an earlier article illustrating how to turn a lurker into a user, enables me to [...]

By: johno

johno — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:20:12 +0000

I have just answered my own question,
I sent one e mail to myself and the system HAS NOT worked. Any ideas?

By: johno

johno — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:11:23 +0000

Hi thanks for the easy to use plug in.

I have just used it to send a newsletter to 2500 subscribers.
The system took about 5 mins to complete.

What confirmation dop i have that the emails have actually gone?

Many thanks.

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23 Wordpress Plugins I Use: Part 5 | AriWriter — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:30:14 +0000

[...] Contact Commenters, the subject of an earlier article illustrating how to turn a lurker into a user, enables me to [...]

By: career outlook

career outlook — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:37:47 +0000

This is very useful plugin as It will make it very easy for me to contact the regular readers of my blog and I hope it will open up many JV opportunities.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:20:30 +0000

Thank-you, godd luck with your future developements

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:27:13 +0000

@Richard,
Copying the list needs to be a new feature. At the moment the plugin doesn’t support it. I shall look into the possibilities of including this feature in the next release.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:04:30 +0000

Another thought … some basic HTML formatting would be really nice and the abiulity to add an image to the mail content.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:32:59 +0000

This should be simple, I tried to highlight and copy/paste all the email IDs in the second stage window and paste them into a plain text file, as a list. It just does not work! Every thing gets pasted except that all important list of the commenters I’ve emailed.

Creating this list is important… any advice how to do this please??

By: nancy

nancy — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:47:13 +0000

I also met the same problems…
How to figure it out?

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:44:19 +0000

Yes, I think the email is fine – it works with other plugins, actually even with Contact Commenter, which is another similar plugin. I have smtp enabled (if that changes anything?).

Unless you are referring to specific settings needed by this plugin? Let me know which ones, I’d be glad to check those specifically. I really like this plugin, and especially love the feature that gives you a list of all your commenters’ blogs. I’d be thrilled to be able to get this working. Thanks.

By: Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:07:11 +0000

Thanks, Ajith. I think it’s a great plug-in, and I’m happy to support it and recommend it. Don’t you worry about 3.0 on my account – once burned, twice shy. I’m sticking with 2.9.2 for the foreseeable future! But I’m sure there are others who could benefit from your making it work on both (hint, please don’t break it for those of us who are NOT upgrading!)