@Phius: No problem with the mod. Feel free to change anything you wish. Glad you like the plugin.
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 August 14th, 2007 at 6:20 am
By: Owen
on August 14th, 2007 at 6:18 am
@Sachin: It should be compatible with WP2.2.2. Can you make sure that your theme uses “comment_author_link()” for the author link. Some older themes use a block of code instead of this, but the plugin hooks into this function.
By: Owen
on August 13th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I’m using wp2.2.2
The plugin gets installed but the icon doesn’t apper.
Is it compatible with wp2.2.2?
By: Sachin Sagar
(1 comments)
on August 13th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Just wanted to say Thanks for this plugin, Owen. Anything that helps to foster a conversation between blogger and readers is pure gold… and it works like a charm!
By: Jen / domestika
(3 comments)
on August 11th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Thank you, Owen.
I’m using your plugin in my blog now and it really help when answering comments. Before your plugin, answer a comment was a fight…
I did a modification on the string $subject… I just translated the message from to portuguese (Tell me if I could not change this) 
Thank you very much
Phius
By: Phius
(1 comments)
on August 11th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Just installed this plugin & love it! Thanks!
By: Sarah
(1 comments)
on August 7th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
cool plugins i will give it a try 
By: scart
(1 comments)
on August 7th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Thanks for this plugin. Works great.
By: Clara
(1 comments)
on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:31 am
It’s brilliant. Thank you for making this!
By: Jen / domestika
on July 30th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Owen, do you have an ETA on when the next rev is coming out? I can’t wait for the multiple comments?
By: Cord Silverstein
(2 comments)
on July 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 am
I love this plugin, I was thinking about something like this this morning and found yours. The only other “feature” I would add is the ability to ONLY emial the comment to the person and not have it on the comment thread on the site. Sometimes I don’t want the reply to be public and it would be handy to save the step of going to my email to respond.
By: Bill Deys
(1 comments)
on July 20th, 2007 at 6:20 am
@Robin: Do you get an envelope next to the commentor’s name ?
By: Owen
on July 20th, 2007 at 6:19 am
@Eve: The current version only responds to the last one you clicked on. The new version will take multiple comments and guess what, shows them in exactly the same way you would imagine it to 
I might release it this weekend, time willing
By: Owen
on July 20th, 2007 at 5:24 am
Great idea. I got it activated but nothing shows in comments. Anyone else have this problem?
By: Robin Sampson
(1 comments)
on July 19th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Hi Owen, I just have a quick question;
say I have 4 comments by 4 different people on a post, and I want to send the same reply to all 4 as well as leave a comment.
So far, when I click the first envelope, the number shows up (replying to : xxxx) then when I click the 2nd envelope the number is replaced with another number, and so on.
My question is- is it still emailing all the ones I hit the envelope for, or just the most recent?
In my head I feel like it is only doing the most recent envelope I clicked- otherwise it would say (replying to : xx , xx, xx)
so, what is it doing?
By: eve
(4 comments)
on July 19th, 2007 at 12:16 am
I discovered a plugin that can solve my problem:
http://www.shiftthis.net/wordpress-swift-smtp-plugin/
It’ll use SMTP to send mail instead of PHP’s mail() function, but I had to change line 142 to use wp_mail().
By: Henrique Cintra
(2 comments)
on July 18th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Hi Owen!
I don’t know if I have to configure something in Wordpress or in my host server, but I’m getting this error:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 503 This mail server requires authentication when attempting to send to a non-local e-mail address. Please check your mail client settings or contact your administrator to verify that the domain or address is defined for this server. in comment-email-responder.php on line 142
Do you have a clue in what I must do?
By: Henrique Cintra
(2 comments)
on July 17th, 2007 at 8:28 am
@Andrea: The envelope appearing on the DashBoard is a side-effect which will be corrected in the next version. You should also get the envelope appearing on the actual comments, next to the commentor’s name. At least, you should if the theme designer uses the comment_author_link() function. I’ve seen older themes that use a chunk of older code to implement this. Let me know if you need further assistance.
By: Owen
on July 17th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Hi Owen!
Great plugin! I seem to be having a problem with it though… The icon appears beside the commenter’s name in my dashboard. Is that where it’s supposed to be? That’s the only place where I see the icon and it’s not clickable! 
I would really appreciate your help on this. Thanks!
By: andrea
(1 comments)
on July 17th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Hi Owen! I’ve downloaded and installed it in my site. This is marvelous! Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
By: N!cE
(1 comments)
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