Comments are sometimes considered the lifeline for any blog. If you get regular comments to your blog you can be sure to witness the development of a whole new community for your blog.

But it is another fact that getting & managing comments for a blog post can be a real difficult task. Bloggers not only need positive comments but also welcome their critics with open hands. You need to be running one of the most popular blogs to get comments without worrying too much about it.

This article discusses about two interesting comments related plugins for WordPress that have the feature to generate & manage more comments for your post.  The plugins for WordPress are – ‘Subscribe to Comments‘ and ‘Get Recent Comments’.

These WordPress plugins are time tested and have proven to generate more comments for bloggers.

The first plugin- ‘Subscribe to comments’ actually is a simple one as it doesn’t help you get new visitors to comment on your post. Rather it works by giving the option for marking or adding a check box for those visitors who have already commented on your post, so that they get alert through e-mail about any subsequent changes in your post.

This means that the plugin can help you get hold of your post readers (those who have commented atleast once) for all future happenings on your post. Because you are making sure that the commenter is updated through e-mail notification you can expect them to return back to your blog more often. Such visitors then can attract others to have a free discussion on your blog.

This plugin works the same way as a thread subscription does for discussion forums. The plugin also provides the visitor with the option to unsubscribe from further notifications. So this plugin is considered one of the most straight forward plugin which your visitors might love to deal with.  As of now the ‘subscribe to comments’ plugin has been downloaded atleast 217610 times.

The second plugin for discussion is the ‘get recent comments’ which allows you to see & manage the latest comments on your blog. It also helps you to manage all the trackbacks too. Both track backs and comments can be shown separately for the blogger using this plugin.

More over for trackbacks & comments, the plugin makes it possible to see only links from external sites to your post. That is, your own website links and comments can be hidden. This plugin also lets you have your visitor’s gravatar and URL for comments.

If you have ever used these plugins or any other similar ones I would love to read your experiences. So do share with me.