Wordpress Quick Reply Template Plugin
December 5th, 2008 | Published in Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins | 5 Comments
The quick reply feature introduced in Wordpress 2.7 is great but it lacks the ability to set the default test of a reply.
This plugin allows you to automatically set the text of a comment reply. For example if your reply template is:
%FIRST_NAME%,
and the comment authors name is:
Paul William
Then the default text in a reply would be:
Paul,
It is that simple.
### Screenshots
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### Download
Download from the [Wordpress Plugin Directory](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-reply-template/).
Source repository at [GitHub](http://github.com/paulwilliam/wordpress-quick-reply-template-plugin/tree/master).



December 7th, 2008 at 6:42 am (#)
Nice little plugin here. A suggestions to make it perfect:
Be able to grab the comment permalink as a variable, so that I can link to the original comment. What I’d like to produce is something like:
<a href="%COMMENT_URL%">@%FIRST_NAME%</a>
December 7th, 2008 at 10:15 am (#)
Paul, thank you so much for writing this plugin. It provides the functionality that I have been looking for ever since switching to 2.7 trunk several weeks ago.
I just sent you an email with an updated version of your plugin which adds the
%ID%shortcut and strips allHTMLfrom the comment author’s name.December 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am (#)
Matt and Kaspars, great ideas I will implement them shortly.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am (#)
Thanks to Kaspars code contribution the latest version supports the comment ID so you can like to the original comment.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pm (#)
Lovely, Paul, Kaspars!