WP Ajax Edit Comments
05. Apr, 2007 
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Ajax Edit Comments now has a new home.
WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments. What better way to show reader appreciation than letting the readers edit their own typos?
For a demonstration, please check out the videos below:
Demo
Several demo videos can be found here.
Download
Please download the file Ajax Edit Comments.
For previous versions, please check out the previous versions of Ajax Edit Comments.
If you are using this plugin for the first time or upgrading, please be sure to test out various characters unique to your blog. This is especially for those using non-English languages. This plugin needs to also have mb_convert_encoding enabled. Version 1.13 has an option in the admin panel to disable this, but you still need to test various characters.
Admin Features
- Admin and Users Panel Options
- Can edit all comments inline in posts.
- Can delete and mark as spam from a post.
- Can edit inline in the Comments admin panel.
- Can edit inline in the Akismet Spam admin subpage.
- Can edit inline in the moderation subpage.
- Can disable inline editing in posts.
- Various admin options including.
- Ability to set comment time.
- Can enable or disable a countdown timer.
- Can receive e-mails when a non-admin edits a comment.
- Can enable edited comments to be checked with Akismet.
- And more…
- Various admin user options including.
- Can turn off comment editing in the Admin panel.
- Can turn off inline editing.
- And more…
- Absolutely no theme or file manipulation needed. Works completely out of the box.
User Features
- Edit comments inline without page reloads.
- Users without JavaScript disabled will see a regular comment page.
- Has a countdown timer to show how long a comment has left to load.
Plugin Features
- Utilizes the jQuery library.
- Comment editing times out after 15 seconds.
- Better error handling.
- Graceful deletion for compatible themes.
- A hook for other plugin authors to tap into.
- Compatible with many plugins, including Akismet, WP Cache, Better Comments Manager, WP Grins, TinyMCEComments, and many more.
Language Features
A lot of effort has gone into translating Ajax Edit Comments into multiple languages. The following languages are available. A big “thank you” goes out to each of the translators who have contributed and/or continue to contribute a translation.
- Available in Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.
The following pages have been created to provide a translation of Ajax Edit Comments:
If you are interested in providing a translation, please contact me (Ronald).
Screenshots
Comment Editing – Admins
A comment the admin’s cursor is hovering over.
A comment that can be edited.
You can also edit author details
You can delete and mark comments as spam from a post.
A deleted comment. Sorry Mark, you had it coming. 
Comment Editing – Users
User’s can edit their own comments for a time specified by admin.
Admin Panel
The Admin panel. Click the image for a larger view.
User’s Panel
A user’s panel where other admins can adjust settings. Click the image for a larger view.
Installation
- Just unzip and upload the “wp-ajax-edit-comments” folder to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Customize the CSS in the ‘wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/css/editComments.css’ file.
Usage
For admin…
Simply hover over a comment in a post and click. The comment will load, and from there you can edit the comment. If you click “Save” without editing, an error will result. This is normal since the comment hasn’t been changed.
You may also delete a comment or mark as spam from a post as well. If your theme is compatible, a short deletion animation will show showing that the deletion was successful. If your theme isn’t compatible, the deletion will be successful, but no visual clue will be shown. If the deletion or spam marking is unsuccessful, an alert box will display.
You can edit global admin options by using the Options->Ajax Edit Comments panel. If you can configure individual admin options in the Users->Ajax Edit Comments panel.
For non-admin users…
If you are a user, leave a comment. You may edit for a specified amount of time (set by admin). If your comment is in moderation and you decide to edit, your comment will disappear from the page on the next refresh. If the admin has the option enabled, your comment will be re-checked for spam.
Customization
You can adjust the appearance or color of the highlight and user messages by editing the supplied css file called “editComments.css”. This file should be in your 'wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/css/' directory.
You can also customize other various options by digging through the code, but such changes are not encouraged or supported. Use the admin panels.
Special Thanks
An extra special thanks goes out to Vivien from Inspiration Bit. Without her, this plugin release wouldn’t have been possible. Brett Terpstra from Circle Six Design helped fix a rather major bug as well during testing. Thank you Brett.
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Bugs/Support/Feature Requests
This plugin is provided as is, but I will try to answer most of your questions in the comments. Please open up a support ticket in the WordPress Support Forums and comment here with a link to the thread.
Several users have had character encoding issues. Ideally all blogs and backends would be in UTF-8. With v1.1.1.0, hopefully all character issues have been resolved, but this may be a little unrealistic. I will try to help people out on a case-by-case basis for non-UTF-8 blogs, but having a character encoding different from UTF-8 seems to cause a lot of issues. If you do install this plugin on a non-UTF-8 blog, make sure to throughly test out the plugin on various characters.
I’ve had reports that this plugin will not work with PHP 4.3.7 or the Konqueror web browser. I am currently not able to test the plugin using that PHP version or the web browser. If anybody has access to test and can offer suggestions as to what might be wrong, it would be much appreciated.
Another thing to note is that if you edit a comment/author details and save without changing anything, an error will result. This is not a bug. This is just WordPress being smart enough to know that nothing has changed when updating the database.
Incompatible Plugins
The following plugins cause issues with WP Ajax Edit Comments
- The Comment Luv Plugin
- Any plugin that posts comments via Ajax and doesn’t require a page reload. An example plugin is JQuery Ajax Comments.
- Any plugin that loads jQuery improperly without queuing it with WordPress.
- WP PostRatings on ISO-8859-1 blogs. Characters load and save incorrectly.
- Google Ajax Search
Since the plugin requires JavaScript and the DOM (Document Object Model), Ajax-type posted comments will not be editable until the user makes a refresh. Future versions may allow hooks for other plugin authors to tap into, but this plugin is so early in its release that this isn’t a possibility quite yet. For now, those that allow Ajax-type posted comments will only allow the comments to be edited as admin.
Change log
- v1.1.4.3 Released on 02/08/2008
- Bug fix: Certain characters were getting stripped out. Notably the “+”character.
- Bug fix: Some admin couldn’t edit. Permissions were revised.
- Greek language was added. Thanks Alexander Kanakaris
- v1.1.4 Released on 01/19/2008
- Bug fix: Added mb_convert_encoding detection. This should resolve the error messages several have received. Please be sure to test characters thoroughly.
- Bug fix: Round trip area when adding HTML to comments.
- Bug fix: Caching issue when saving the comment to the database.
- Bug fix: Logged in users could see the Edit links.
- Feature Addition: Admin can de-spam comments in Akismet sub-panel without a form submission.
- Language Updates: Updated French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, and Russian files. More to come.
- v1.1.3 Released on 01/06/2008
- Added option to disable mb_convert_encoding in the admin panel. This was due to the numerous hosts that do not have this installed. Users should use caution and test various characters.
- Fixed an DIV tag that was closed improper (Thanks Xeno Philia).
- v1.1.2.5 Released on 12/15/2007
- Added page detection for incompatibility issues with the Navigation List plugin.
- v1.1.2.1 Released on 11/27/2007
- v1.1.2 Released on 11/12/2007
- v1.1.1.4 Released on 10/29/2007
- Added Romanian language file. Thanks Tache Ionut Madalin
- v1.1.1.3 Released on 10/20/2007
- v1.1.1.2 Released on 08/18/2007
- Bug fix. Admin were able to edit, but non-admin couldn’t. This was caused by having WordPress installed in a sub-domain and/or subdirectory and dealt with domain and path issues regarding cookies. Thanks Pelf.
- Bug fix. Fixed more charset issues. Chinese characters were being interpreted incorrectly in UTF-8. Thanks Johnson.Wang.
- v1.1.1.0 Released on 08/10/2007
- Bug fix. Admin were able to edit, but non-admin couldn’t. This was caused by the timer offset in the WordPress admin panel. Thanks Mo.
- Bug fix. MySQL errors resulted in the comment unable to save. This was caused my blogs and MySQL database not in UTF-8. Thanks Louis.
- Bug fix. Some characters were being screwed up when saving to the WordPress database. This issue was caused by non-UTF-8 back-ends. Thanks David.
- Bug fix. The blog would be inoperable in Internet Explorer due to multiple session headings being called. Thanks Matt.
- v1.1.0.6 Release Updated on 07/22/2007
- Added German language file (Thanks David).
- v1.1.0.6 Released on 07/14/2007
- Admin can now delete security keys stored in custom fields table.
- A language file is now included that can be translated. Chinese is currently available in the official version (Thanks Nicky).
- v1.1.0.1 Released on 06/08/2007
- Complete JavaScript overhaul. Ported over to jQuery.
- Admin can now disable inline edits.
- Numerous CSS and plugin bug fixes.
- Improved security.
- Numerous admin and user-panel additions.
- Added timer for non-admin users.
- Better error handling and error correction.
- Timeout feature when editing the comment.
- Edited comments are re-checked for spam if Akismet is installed.
- Admin can now edit, delete, and mark as spam from a post.
- And lots more…
- Thank you to the testers: Ben, Bes, Gene, Helen, Scott, Simonne, and Vivien. If I missed you, please let me know about it.
- v1.065 Released on 05/23/2007
- Plugged a hole in a somewhat major security exploit. Please upgrade to this version ASAP. (Thanks Frédéric)
- v1.061 Released on 04/18/2007
- Slight bug fix. Turning off comments in the Admin panel turned off comments for Admin on regular posts. This issue has been resolved.
- v1.06 Released on 04/16/2007
- Plugin now allows comment editing in the Admin panel. This can be turned off in Users -> Ajax Edit Comments (Thanks Bes).
- v1.042 Released on 04/14/2007
- v1.041 Released on 04/13/2007
- v1.021 Released on 04/07/2007
- Allowed comment editing on pages.
- v1.02 Released on 04/07/2007
- Fixed a bug where the plugin wouldn’t work if the blog URL and the install URL weren’t the same. (Thanks Ben).
- v1.01 Released on 04/06/2007
- v1.00 Released on 04/05/2007
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nice plugin
Nice plug-in. Although the newer versions of wordpress has built-in capability to edit the comments.
Thanks for this new version.
I cannot update the translation into French. If I use “update from the source”, Poedit “freezes”. I tried with the ajaxEdit-de_DE.po file, but I cannot open it, I have the message “Failed to convert file to unicode”
Thanks for your job, is bautifull. But whether this burdensome load on the page
Thanks! Good work
testing this stuff … does it work?
let me have a try
have a try too
Cool plugin, sounds like it would be useful for us bloggers that use WordPress.
Plugin sounds great but it’s been out of development for a while so not sure if it works on current version of wp. But th test here looks promising. Hmm – impressive – great work.
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