How to Choose a Good Commenting Plugin for WordPress

Comments are the main part of a website when website visitors are gathered together for discussions, suggestions, questions, appreciations, etc. Comments are a crucial part of any website as it attracts users to engage a lot in a particular website. Website visitors usually do not engage with websites that are not user-friendly. When they realize that such a website has an effective and attractive platform to start or keep their discussions and ideas on, they will engage a lot there. Today, people love to share ideas with each other and they love to know more. Choosing a good commenting system is important for every website/blog owner to attract more users.

Why not WordPress Comments?

WordPress comes with a comment management system of its own. WordPress posts, pages, and other post types can accept comments. All WordPress themes come equipped with comment layout templates. However, it is up to you to engage users on your website and encourage them to leave comments. But WordPress comments system is not the exact tool to do that. It has a primary design and fewer features that cannot perform well with user engagements.

When talking about choosing a good commenting system for WordPress, several points should be considered.

1. User Friendliness of the design — The design of the commenting section should be user-friendly. Some WordPress commenting plugins have complex designs. Those complex designs are not user-friendly as users do not like to interact with complexity. So, try to choose a commenting plugin with a simple but yet attractive user interface.

2. No ads — Simply, users really hate ads. Commenting sections filed with ads are completely a mess. Who loves to interact with such an environment? So, choosing a WordPress commenting plugin that has zero ads is way better.

3. No user tracking — Most of the commenting plugins track their commenters always and sell their data to third parties. This has become a serious problem in this world. More than 50% of the people who use the internet are pretty worried because of this issue. Choose a commenting plugin that does not track users.

4. SSO — Single sign-on) — Some users do not like to sign up in a third-party account system. So, the users can signup on to your site. In this case, you need to have a commenting plugin that has SSO. Providing the best for users is really thoughtful.

5. Guest Commenting — Some users love to comment anonymously. For them, guest commenting is the ideal option. Users have different tastes. So, you cannot be sure about the likes and dislikes of users. It is better to make available every option.

6. Comments Moderating — Not only on the users’ side but also when choosing a commenting plugin, you need to consider how it is helpful for you to handle the comments section. Consider whether the commenting system that you are choosing is easy for you to handle. Especially comments moderating. Choose a commenting plugin that has given you full control of moderation. Some commenting plugins do not give you that. So, be careful when choosing one.

7. Analytics — Analytics about the comments and engagement will give you an overall idea of the user engagement in your WordPress blog, that will help you to take necessary decisions for the development of your WordPress blog.

8. Spam Detection — When it comes to spam comments management, you may find it tough and stressful. So, be sure to choose a commenting plugin that has spam detection features.

These are the main things that you need to consider when choosing a commenting plugin for your WordPress blog.

Apart from those above-mentioned things, you can check the following before choosing a commenting plugin.

1. Reaction and voting plugins — These plugins let users interact more with your site in different ways other than just commenting. Users will find this interesting and it will help you to improve user engagement.

2. Customizable — Website owners can customize the comments section as they prefer. (Can customize the appearance)

3. Comment counts — All the comments published are being counted.

4. Like/dislike system — Ability to like and dislike comments.

These points are also very helpful when choosing a good WordPress commenting plugin. For instance, you can use Hyvor Talk, WordPress, Livefyer, Graphcomments, Disqus, etc.

To Conclude,

When choosing a good commenting plugin to consider the above-mentioned things well. A good commenting plugin can drive users a lot more than you expect.