Top 10 Most Used WordPress Comment Plugins

WordPress already ships with a fairly good comment function, but there are many reasons people choose third-party WordPress comment plugins to meet their needs. In this article, Mona Media will introduce you to the top 10 WordPress comment plugins that are best right now.

Why you need a WordPress comment plugin

For news sites and social networks, comments are essential. Comments increase interaction, make readers trust the information more, and bring people back to the discussion in an article, which makes it perform better. This is especially good if you do SEO, run a news website to run AdSense ads, or do affiliate marketing.

Comments can turn into a spam magnet if you do not moderate them well.

Top 10 Most Used WordPress Comment Plugins

Here are the top 10 best WordPress comment plugins for your reference. Pick one of them for your site.

1. Jetpack Comments

Jetpack is a combination of many functions in one fairly lightweight plugin, and it is handy for your site if you know how to use 80% of its features.

Jetpack Comments in particular helps you manage each post quickly and easily. It also lets visitors comment through their social network accounts (e.g. Facebook or Twitter).

Unfortunately, you have to pay to use this feature. Still, Jetpack Comments deserves its place as a leading WordPress comment plugin today.

2. WpDiscuz

WpDiscuz has real-time commenting, meaning content shows up immediately when someone leaves a comment. WpDiscuz has a simple, easy-to-use interface and can integrate with social media accounts. Like Jetpack, you pay for some of its extended features.

3. Postmatic

Postmatic takes a different approach from other WordPress comment plugins. It lets you choose between leaving a comment or replying to someone else's comment directly by email. All you do is open the email, type your comment and press reply (you can even do this on your phone).

4. CommentLuv

CommentLuv is the most distinctive WordPress comment plugin because it is designed to increase site traffic by providing a list of backlinks.

It also automatically creates a backlink after you leave a comment. With this method your site can get a huge number of comments, because most users will look for backlink for their own websites.

Even so, be careful with this plugin: Google may treat your blog as spam if there are too many low-quality outbound links. Or you can simply turn this feature off.

5. De:comments

De:Comments lets you store users' comment data on your own domain. Because you do not depend on any third party to store the data, this is considered a safe approach.

This plugin also lets users sign in with social media accounts, works well on mobile and is very easy to use. Another nice point is lazy comment loading, which lets users scroll to the bottom of the page to load older comments.

6. Akismet

Akismet is a plugin that supports commenting and is installed by default when you create a WordPress site. It is also rated the best comment support plugin, since it blocks spam attacks now and in the future. Pretty neat, right?

7. GrapthComment

GraphComment is a WordPress plugin with a very secure moderation function, including a system that blocks repeated spam attacks and an effective information moderation system…

GraphComment suits sites with a large number of visitors and anyone who wants to open a regular discussion space on their website.

8. WpDevArt Facebook Comments

This WordPress comment plugin displays comments from Facebook users directly on your website (you could call it mirroring content from Facebook).

In addition, WpDevArt Facebook Comments comes with other features to get the most out of it, such as adjusting the position of the comment column, a customization panel to change the text size and type, and configuring the title box.

9. Disqus Comment System

Disqus is one of the most widely used WordPress comment plugins, used to replace the default WordPress comments.

Disqus can import comments from Movable Type, Blogger and other platforms that use WXR XML data. This is a big advantage for bloggers, since they do not have to worry about losing old comments when moving their site to WordPress.

10. Yoast Comment Hacks

Yoast is considered one of the best SEO optimization plugins right now. Yoast has also developed various other WordPress plugins. One of them is a WP comment plugin called “Yoast Comment Hacks”.

Unlike most of the WordPress comment plugins above, Yoast Comment Hacks cannot replace the original WordPress comment system. Instead, it optimizes the default functions by “hacking” into WordPress core a little.

So you will find some custom features the original WordPress comment system does not have, such as redirecting users to specific pages, sending an email to everyone who left a comment, or setting minimum and maximum word limits for a comment.

Conclusion

Those were the top 10 WordPress comment plugins to consider before using any of them. The reason is that when your site has user interaction through these plugins, Google will rate your content more highly. You can choose paid or free WordPress comment plugins to get the most from them, depending on your needs. Mona hopes this article is useful and that you use these plugins well on your website!

See also: How to install a plugin on a WordPress website