Custom Comment Notifications allows for the comment email notifications to be customized. This way you can choose what information gets included in the e-mail and what information is left out. You can make the e-mails as detailed or as minimal as you desire. Through the use of some given variables, you are able to generate a standard e-mail template that will be dynamically generated and sent to your authors and moderators. You can specify a separate template for your authors and another for you moderators.

Available Variables

• Post Variables

  • Post ID
  • Post Title
  • Post Link
  • Post Link URL
  • Post Link to Specific Comment
  • Post Link to Comments Section

• Comment Variables

  • Comment Author Name
  • Comment Author Email
  • Comment Author IP
  • Comment Author Domain
  • Comment Author URL
  • Comment Author ARIN Lookup
  • Comment Content
  • Comments Awaiting Moderation (Moderator Templates Only)

• Moderation Variables

  • Delete/Trash Comment (Depends on EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS variable)
  • Delete/Trash Comment URL (Depends on EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS variable)
  • Approve Comment (Moderator Templates Only)
  • Approve Comment URL (Moderator Templates Only)
  • Spam Comment
  • Spam Comment URL
  • Moderation Panel Link (Moderator Templates Only)
  • Moderation Panel Link URL (Moderator Templates Only)

• Site Variables

  • Site Link
  • Site Link URL
  • Blog Name

Planned Updates

• I plan on adding the following features shortly
  • Ability to specify additional recipients of the e-mails on a per template basis
  • This will allow for only the administrators to receive the moderation e-mails. Or if you have multiple moderators, it will allow each moderator to receive an e-mail
  • The additional users will be required to have an account on your site

I have Custom Comment Notifications installed, now what?
Activate the plugin. It doesn't matter if you choose to network activate or activate on a single site. Note that in a Network activation, it will activate the plugin on each site, but with individual templates/settings for each site.

1.0.8

• Bug Fixes
  • An error when building the recipient lists for moderation emails (thanks WSP-webmaster)

1.0.7

• Enhancements
  • URLs added as additional variables to the Links

1.0.6

• Enhancements
  • Post Author variable added that will show the display name of the Post Author

1.0.5

• Enhancements
  • Category variable added that will show the first category assigned to a post.
  • Comment Excerpt variable added that will allow for the comment excerpt to be included in the email.
  • Ability to specify additional recipients that will receive the e-mails in conjunction to the Site Administrator and Author.
  • Ability to protect the comment author's information in the moderation email. This functionality already existed for the author email.

1.0.4

• Enhancements
  • Allow Post Author to be excluded from or included in moderation e-mails.

1.0.3

• Bug Fixes
  • A bug with the localization caused all the text to break in the Settings Menu.

1.0.2

• Bug Fixes
  • Some minor bug fixes.

1.0.1

• Bug Fixes
  • Post Author must have 'moderate_comments' capability in order to trash or spam comments.

1.0

• This is the first release.

Automatic:

1. Search for 'custom comment notifications' through the New Plugin Menu
2. Install the plugin
3. Activate either on a Network Level or on a Single Site Level
4. Note that a network activation will activate on the sub-sites with individual template/settings options

Manual/FTP:

1. Upload custom-comment-notifications directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Set up and customize the plugin through the 'Settings' Menu

Settings Page



Available Variables



Example HTML E-mail



Example Plain Text E-mail