Comment Reply Via Email: Open To All

April 23, 2009

Joseph Scott

Thanks to the many users who have been testing the comment reply via email feature we are now ready to open it up to all WordPress.com users. Here’s a quick refresher video on how it works:

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Two things to enable this feature. First, make sure email notifications for comments are turned on. Second, select the ‘Enable sending comment replies via email’ option. All of these items are on the Settings > Discussion page.

With those options in place instead of clicking back to your dashboard, you can reply to the comment straight from e-mail. When you click reply, a special WordPress e-mail address will appear in the Sender line, matching your reply to the proper comment thread. Send it off, and your reply is up on your blog in seconds.

Really digging the blending of blogging and email? Just wait, there’s more to come!

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  3. Greg Apr 25th at 9:20 am

    I wish I had one of those t-shirts.

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  4. fajro Apr 25th at 9:22 am

    Why top-posting?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topposting#Top-posting

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  5. technajim Apr 25th at 9:25 am

    This is wonderful…thanks guys and keep up the good works.

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  6. caradesainblog Apr 25th at 12:55 pm

    wodpress. you is the best

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  7. jvsingh Apr 25th at 3:10 pm

    congrat,s to be more ahead,Let me try now

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  8. Yasir Imran Apr 25th at 4:01 pm

    great feature, I noticed it once before, thank you

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  9. Jonathan Apr 25th at 4:23 pm

    Sweeeet. Thanks, WP Team.

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  11. drzeze Apr 25th at 5:21 pm

    great!will tryit.Thanks.

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  12. quepuedohacer Apr 25th at 6:06 pm

    Cool feature. I will try it out and make sure my wordpress name shows instead of my email name since I read someone was having a problem with that. I also have all comments held for moderation but this way I can go and approve the ones I want and then answer at leisure during the day. This is a plus for me. Thanks.

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  13. nextstep2000 Apr 25th at 6:26 pm

    Thanks for the information. It made life must more easier. WordPress is way ahead of the rest.

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  14. سيدة الزرقة Apr 25th at 6:52 pm

    It,s very nice

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  15. calandrella Apr 25th at 6:59 pm

    Thanks!

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  17. Agus Setiyawan Apr 25th at 11:52 pm

    Thank’s for your information.

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  19. samarahmah Apr 26th at 12:59 am

    thank you very matsh

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  20. Deena Apr 26th at 3:08 am

    Oowee- WordPress just gets better and better! Now if you would just allow advertising I would be in blog heaven….. purleeeese!

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  21. Mohamed Sanaulla Apr 26th at 4:05 am

    This is a great feature. Most of the times we will have to log in just to reply to the comment. With this new feature we can do it on the fly from the mail :). WordPress.com is indeed a great blogging platform.

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  22. programmervb Apr 26th at 6:06 am

    great…..

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  23. hiphop94 Apr 26th at 6:55 am

    well well well! creative work always to be appreciate……………………..loll so this idea helps to appreciate to commentors too…….

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  24. Dony Alfan Apr 26th at 7:07 am

    Yup, its really helpful! I’m gonna use it

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  25. mr91535 Apr 26th at 7:22 am

    good one, indeed. thanks.

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  26. Phil Groom Apr 26th at 8:50 am

    Signed up for the trial: didn’t work; had to go in and enter my replies online. Tried to contact support: no response. Sorry guys. Great idea, though.

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    • Joseph Scott May 7th at 3:23 pm

      I haven’t been able to find any support tickets with your email address regarding comment reply via email. Can you please contact support again and we’ll track down why comment reply isn’t working for you.

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  27. Darmawan Apr 26th at 12:44 pm

    why my reply via email dont show up in my blog?

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  28. Lilja Apr 26th at 1:44 pm

    Great feature – thanks 🙂

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  29. Pardeep Apr 26th at 5:54 pm

    Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great

    Loved it !

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  30. Ivan Apr 26th at 6:16 pm

    Nice job WordPress, getting cooler everyday 🙂

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  32. dansinch Apr 26th at 6:29 pm

    Is this feature available in the WordPress.org version? If not, any plans for adding it?

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  33. puddy Apr 26th at 8:19 pm

    I love this 😀

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  34. salomey5 Apr 26th at 9:10 pm

    Oooh, that looks interesting… Trying it right away! Thank you, WordPress, you’re awesome! 🙂

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  35. wordsdontcumeasily Apr 26th at 10:46 pm

    thankyou

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  36. dr.Abu Hana :: أبو هـنـأ ألفردان :: Apr 27th at 1:22 am

    Thank’s a lot..
    WP is the best choice for u..

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  37. Gul Apr 27th at 9:57 am

    Oh, great
    thanks alot.
    regards

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  38. juleslife Apr 27th at 2:29 pm

    Thanks you guys! cheers

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  39. zygella Apr 27th at 3:54 pm

    I’m looking forward to see how that works, it sounds interesting.

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  40. bodats Apr 27th at 4:30 pm

    Thanks a lot!!!
    It’s a dream come true!
    Now, i don’t have to re-login just to reply the comment.
    Once again, good job guys!
    Thanks a lot !!!

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  41. dnhnieuws Apr 27th at 8:05 pm

    GREAT!

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  42. jazzybratt Apr 28th at 2:13 pm

    Just found you today… i am glad i did!

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  43. The augur Apr 28th at 7:28 pm

    i love this tool

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  44. Jellyboard Apr 28th at 11:03 pm

    Cool! Don’t think I’ll be using it, though 😐

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  45. kimialex92 Apr 29th at 5:27 am

    really nice..

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  46. aporia Apr 29th at 7:36 am

    Why does the author’s own comments only appear after all reader’s comments, regardless of the time the author’s comment was made?

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    • Joseph Scott May 7th at 3:08 pm

      Comment replies via email are processed as a reply to that email, that way the comments will show up correctly on blogs that use comment threading.

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  47. Nynaeve Apr 29th at 11:36 am

    I can’t do it. My message don’t appear in this blog: http://laspruebasdenynaeve.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/395/#comment-766

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  49. mwarsaw Apr 30th at 4:42 pm

    Interesting

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  50. indigovirgogreen16 Apr 30th at 5:40 pm

    looking forward to seeing how it works!

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  51. temazostraducidos Apr 30th at 8:40 pm

    i’ll try it… thanks!

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  52. Cat May 1st at 7:47 am

    Ok, just wanted to say seeing I criticised the feature further up in the thread that all the issues I’ve had during the beta have been fixed and I really like the feature now. I’ll definitely be using it.

    Thanks and nice work. 🙂

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  53. AamirRaz May 1st at 11:13 am

    wordpress is getting more attractive day by day..
    nice feature 🙂 Thnx

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  54. কুচ্ছিত হাঁসের ছানা May 1st at 1:17 pm

    great job. Thanks.

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  55. Gaizabonts May 2nd at 7:33 am

    Works like a breeze. Super Stuff!

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  56. singhsoftdev May 2nd at 11:37 am

    Looks great, thanks

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  57. Judy O'Connell May 2nd at 1:05 pm

    I can’t wait to try this, but I am wondering if the rubbish that my email system adds to my email about privacy etc will also get dropped into the reply!!!! Might need to switch my email over to my gmail to make this work smoothly – BUT I love to get the notification pop up on my desktop at work.

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    • Joseph Scott May 7th at 2:59 pm

      Depends on exactly where your email system adds the text. If it’s at the bottom of the email (below the quoted section) then it most likely will not show up in the comment.

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  58. TheBrotha May 2nd at 3:29 pm

    Good stuff. Now all that’s missing is that back massage and a sandwich. Come WordPress, get on it! Lol!

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  59. desatech May 3rd at 12:24 am

    Halo… iam new comers and study what is a wordpress … i want to edit foto?

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  60. soloden May 3rd at 2:12 am

    absolutely fantastic! thanks for your hardwork!

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  61. mtfauzi May 3rd at 4:01 am

    Good

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  63. gregoryharalson May 3rd at 11:28 pm

    Cool, going to test it out!

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  64. thebigotbasher May 4th at 12:40 am

    Especially good news – I a, glad I chose wordpress as a certain other blogger now allows anonymous posters to delete others anonymous posters.

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  65. jiggow May 4th at 5:32 am

    worth a try…
    thx

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  66. خاطر May 4th at 10:14 am

    Super !

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  67. serghuk May 4th at 1:43 pm

    Yeap!

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  68. Em/Emilylondon May 4th at 2:54 pm

    Wow! This is great! Now I can reply to the comments straight from my blackberry!
    Next I think you guys at Automattic should enable live video feed posts. What I mean is we could be able to do a live video for a post. Just like live news but Live Post!

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  69. wahyuapriani May 5th at 3:19 am

    thanks, that great! I really like it!

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  70. boddhayan May 5th at 5:09 pm

    Another great addition

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  71. Eng.LuLu May 5th at 6:32 pm

    plz help me!

    Two things to enable this feature. First, make sure email notifications for comments are turned on. Second, select the ‘Enable sending comment replies via email’ option. All of these items are on the Settings > Discussion page.

    I do the 2nd step
    but i didn’t how to make the 1st one 😦

    plz help me
    what should i do?

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  73. ronewspress May 6th at 1:50 am

    Awesome Feature!

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  74. IfeOlorun May 6th at 5:53 pm

    This is great news. Thanks

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  75. ragingdad May 6th at 6:29 pm

    Beginning yesterday, this feature started to behave differently. Initially, when I replied it posted on the blog with my avatar, just like it does when replying from computer. Now, it seems to think I am a different person, and doesn’t recognize me and connect it to the avatar. I also get a second email now, notifying me that a comment was received. Duh, it was my comment! Any ideas on why the change? Thanks!

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    • Joseph Scott May 7th at 2:56 pm

      When a comment comes in it looks to see if there is a WordPress.com account associated with it. Did you reply using a different email address by chance?

      If you continue to see problems please contact support and we’ll pin down what’s going on.

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  76. herbalsfromceylon May 6th at 7:46 pm

    This is great idea, thanks

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  77. emran26 May 7th at 4:44 am

    Thank you for teach us, and now I learned how to use it.

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  78. Ferhat May 7th at 5:13 am

    Settings changed and ready to roll. Thanks!

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  79. serghuk May 7th at 6:13 am

    Yeap! It is interesting!)))

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