@Juno: That’s excellent!
Did you change theme by any chance? Sometimes WordPress themes have missing elements that break plugins.
Description
The Comment Email Responder v2 is based on the work of Andrew Flusche who can up with the original concept and wrote the first iteration of this plugin. It’s purpose is to provide an easy mechanism for a blog administrator to email a response to one of the comments placed on the website. The response becomes a comment in the normal way, but also fires off an email to the commentor with the content of the response and his original comment.
Installation
1. Download the plugin file, unzip and place it in your plugin folder.
This makes the plugin available to WordPress and it should now appear in your Plugin folder. The zip file also includes an icon for the plugin which should also be placed in the plugin folder.
2. Activate the plugin
This “starts up” the plugin. At this point, the plugin is active, but won’t work correctly till it is configured
3. Configure the plugin
The plugin can be configured both from a new panel in the Options menu called Comment Email Responder. Please go to this panel and supply the required information.
Usage
Once the plugin has been activated you’ll notice a new icon appearing next to commenter names on your posts. Click on this icon to respond to the comment. When you save the comment, a copy will be emailed to the person who left the comment.
Download
Comments/Bugs
- The plugin behaves well with the Subscribe-to-comments plugin and won’t email someone who’s already subscribed to the comment thread.
- The plugin assumes the existence of the “comment_form” action which is optional for template creators. If this is missing in your template, please add it accordingly.
- The plugin assumes that your admin user is set to wp_user_level 10. While this is true in most cases, some WordPress installations mess this up. If the plugin doesn’t seem to work, check out the fix on Cynthia’s blog.
History
v1.0: Base release. Implementation by Andrew Flusche
v2.0: New version. Admin interface added and automatic insertion into template on activation
v2.1: Minor bug fixes
v2.21: Another couple of minor bug fixes
v2.3: Email now contains link to post together with a specified footer
Websites using this plugin
I love it when people use my work, so if you do, drop me a comment. I’d love to pop around and have a look at your blog.
Responses
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on May 27th, 2008 at 7:52 am
By: Owen
on May 27th, 2008 at 4:11 am
I upgraded to WP 2.5 and tried the plugin again. Now it works like a charm. No idea why, but I’m very happy and I expect my commenters will be, too! 
By: Juno
on May 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Excelent extension. Tks
By: Gustavo Ribeiro
(1 comments)
on May 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Thanks for sharing! Great plug-in.
By: witsandnuts
(1 comments)
on May 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am
“The plugin behaves well with the Subscribe-to-comments plugin and won’t email someone who’s already subscribed to the comment thread.”
It is sending double emails to those who’ve subscribed to comments.
On my blog as well as another.
And I’m running 2.5
Any suggestions? I’d really love to keep this plugin.
By: cat
(1 comments)
on May 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Excelente estensão!
Obrigado!
By: Sergio Grigoletto
(1 comments)
on May 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
@Katrin: Thanks for the comment. Well, this is a hobby for me. I find it great fun to learn new things and use them constructively, so really it is no effort.
By: Owen
on May 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am
I am AMAZED by people like you! I am new to the blogging game (as you can see by my lonely little blog) and am trying to learn as much as I can. I’m a “traditional” print writer who has just published a book, so I feel like my brain can’t even begin to absorb all the new vocabulary I’m learning.
Thanks for lending us all your brains!
By: katrin
(1 comments)
on April 29th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
@Gina: Thanks for the suggestion. It’s a great idea, but there are some other features I need to introduce first.
I’ll leave your comment as a reminder though
By: Owen
on April 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am
@Erika: thanks for the post and comment. You’ve very welcome
By: Owen
on April 29th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I love this a lot, but was wondering….
Do you ever think that it will be updated to post the comment replies within the commentors reply?
Say after my comment here, you comment me, and it is immediately below my text, within my comment area and not four or five comments below mine.
Is this something that is doable?
Just wondering
Thank you!
By: Gina
on April 28th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I use it, love it, and have begun pimping it out to others 
http://plainjanemom.com/2008/04/28/a-great-way-to-interact-with-the-commenters-on-your-blog/
By: Erika Jurney
(1 comments)
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:28 am
As a note, it is best-practice to not trust inputs from form fields because it is easy enough to edit a form manually. {edited}
{editor: thanks .. point taken}
By: Aaron
(1 comments)
on April 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
@Juno: Brian’s Threaded Comments already notify the commenter about the reply. It was the first plugin I knew that did that. Unfortunately, it does not work with TinyMCEcomments and Firefox (my case). So, I switched to Comment Email Responder
@Owen: I use your plugin under WP 2.5 and it does work fine. Thanks! But, is there a way to make it work with Better Comments Manager?
By: José Luís
(1 comments)
on April 16th, 2008 at 9:03 am
@Juno: Can you try turning off the other plugin temporarily to see if it makes any difference ?
By: Owen
on April 16th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Actually, I just checked again … my comments.php has the comment_form action, my user level as admin is set to 10. But the png that is supposed to show up doesn’t show up at all. 
I’m using Brian’s Threaded Comments - is it possible that your plugin doesn’t work if that plugin is installed?
And if so, is there anyway to get it to work?
I’d really like to have my commenters notified of their comments …
By: Juno
on April 16th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Hi, I don’t understand how this plugin is supposed to work or your instructions …
On my blog, an envelop shows up for some commenters, but not for others.
But most of all, I have no idea what the envelopes are supposed to do/what I’m supposed to do with the envelopes.
Could you maybe give some more detailed installation and usage instructions? I never knew that this envelop icon had anything to do with your plugin at all until I read through all of the comments in this thread!
By: Juno
on April 7th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
@Emz: Thanks for letting us know. Glad you managed to get it sorted out in the end!
By: Owen
on April 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
This is half for Owen, half for anyone that may be doubting the plugin.
Firstly, I’ve had a never ending streak of problems with WP 2.5. There were too many variables to quickly see which one was causing the issues.
Secondly, and actually this is the most important part: this plugin works fine (perfectly!) with 2.5. There are no compatibility issues at all.
Making a very long and frustrating story short, updating my domain to PHP 5.2.x from 4.4.x fixed everything.
Considering WP doesn’t require this version of PHP, and I’ve used WP 2.3.3 and this plugin with 4.4.x successfully, I can’t begin to understand what happened!
But, I’m happy things are now sorted, and working as they should be, so I’m not going to go poking for answers.
To all prospective users of this plugin: USE IT! It’s incredible! Honestly!
I think that’s all the important points covered.
By: Emz
(5 comments)
on April 6th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
It seems to work fine for me with WP 2.5.
Great plugin so far, looking forward to seeing how this works out for me. Thanks!
By: Renate
(1 comments)
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