Comment Experience by Progress Planner

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1. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   3.7y ago

   The update of this plugin cause a critical error on my site and took the whole site down. Do not recommend. This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by microtribe.

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2. ★★★★★ Bahus

   3.7y ago

   It only helped to remove the plugin folder from the hosting.

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3. ★★★★★ soaresrey

   3.7y ago

   Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class “JoostBlog\WP\Comment\Inc\Hacks” not found in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/yoast-comment-hacks/yoast-comment-hacks.php:53 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(2314): include_once() #1 /var/www/html/wp-admin/plugins.php(192): plugin_sandbox_scrape() #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/yoast-comment-hacks/yoast-comment-hacks.php on line 53

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4. ★★★★★ nittygrittytechy

   5.1y ago

   I am sorry to leave you a 1 star, but your plugin does not work. Plus there is no instructions on how to use this plugin. I have click on the email icon a lot and nothing happens. The link looks like this (not putting my real email here) mailto:[email protected]?subject=RE%3A%20Why%20Did%20Jesus%20Come%20To%20earth%3F&body=Hi%20Living%2C%0D%0A%0D%0ALiving%20His%20Word%20has%20responded%20to%20your%20comment%2Fprayer%20or%20approved%20your%20comment%2Fprayer.%20Thank%20you%20for%20leaving%20your%20comment%2Fprayer%20on%20%22Why%20Did%20Jesus%20Come%20To%20earth%3F%22%20-%20https%3A%2F%2Flivinghisword.org%2Fwhy-did-jesus-come-to-earth%2F%0D%0A%0D%0AGod%20Bless%20You%21%0D%0ALiving%20His%20Word%20Ministries%2C%20Inc.%0D%0Awww.livinghisword.org%0D%0Aresponse%40livinghisword.org Okay now what? If you can tell me how this plugin works and I can get to work, this would be wonderful but if not then I will leave my review. Thank you

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5. ★★★★★ sinazn

   5.4y ago

   The email section does not appear and does not work

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6. ★★★★★ dannydanny

   6.3y ago

   No warnings when the comment is too long. Someone could spend an hour writing a comment and then get the message that their comment is too long. It would be nice if, when someone reached the limit, a warning is given (Hey, you’ve reached your limit) No information given after the fact. For example, if I’m 1000 characters over the limit it’d be nice to get a message that says, “You’re 1000 characters over the limit,” instead of, “Your comment is too long. Try again.” or whatever it says. Great idea but not a good implementation.

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7. ★★★★★ onialex1

   9.6y ago

   Doesn’t send any emails to the commentators. False description.

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8. ★★★★★ Siam ลอตเตอรี่

   10.1y ago

   this plugin add more comment setting, easy to costomize.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.9

Translated into 31 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Plus 7 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-22 600+ → 500+ down after 218 days in tier
2. 2025-07-19 700+ → 600+ down after 80 days in tier
3. 2025-04-30 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-04-29 700+ → 800+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-04-27 800+ → 700+ down after 59 days in tier
6. 2025-02-27 900+ → 800+ down after 41 days in tier
7. 2025-01-17 1K+ → 900+ down after 671 days in tier
8. 2023-03-18 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• C Cookies for Comments 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• T Throws SPAM Away 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• D Delete Pending Comments 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags C
• Simply Disable Comments 7K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• Spam Destroyer 5K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A

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Comment Experience by Progress Planner: 500+ active installs, 3.5★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/yoast-comment-hacks