Make WordPress comments easier to manage with cleaner moderation emails, better routing, comment policy controls, length limits, and tools for following up with commenters.
Core WordPress comments work, but moderation and follow-up can feel clunky. Comment Experience adds practical improvements for site owners and editors who want a cleaner, more manageable comment workflow without replacing the native comments system.
- Clean up comment notification emails so moderation is easier.
- Require acceptance of a comment policy before submission.
- Forward comments to another email address and optionally trash them.
- Set minimum and maximum comment lengths.
- Redirect first-time commenters to a thank-you page.
- Change a comment's parent ID from the comment edit screen.
- Email an individual commenter from the comments screen.
- Email all commenters on a post from the admin bar.
- Route comment emails to another user from a post's discussion settings.
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New.
- Search for Comment Experience or comment hacks.
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Go to Settings → Comment Experience to configure the available options.
- Download the plugin zip.
- Upload the
comment-hacksfolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin in Plugins.
- Go to Settings → Comment Experience to configure the available options.
- Questions or support: WordPress.org support forum
- Bug reports and feature requests: GitHub issues
- Security reports: Patchstack VDP
Contributions are welcome. Please read .github/CONTRIBUTING.md before opening an issue or pull request.