Plugins and Widgets Manage WordPress Comments

The wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest WordPress version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in comments that I can add to this list.

• Subscribe To Comments – Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
• WP AJAX Edit Comments – Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX.
• Get Recent Comments – displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog.
• Close Old Posts – Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
• WP Grins – allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
• WordPress Paged Comments – allows comment paging. Useful for those very popular blog entries receiving many comments.
• Live Comment Preview – the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
• Show Top Commentators – Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
• WordPress Gravatar Plugin – outputs the gravatar based on the commenters email address.
• MyAvatars – shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments
• Comment Relish – Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
• Favatars – displays the favicon associated with the commenter’s website.
• Brian’s Threaded Comments – adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better.
• Dofollow – lets you remove the nofollow attribute from your comments.
• OpenID Comments for WordPress – allows users to leave comments using their OpenID.
• Extended Comment Options – allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.