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title: The Potential of WordPress Comments
date: 2025-06-20T09:33:01+00:00
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# The Potential of WordPress Comments

WordPress comments are missing critical functionality to really embrace engagement and community — there are no notifications when your comment is approved or gets a reply, which prevents any kind of continued discussion.

In this video I’m demonstrating an update to the [Comment Approval Notifications](https://github.com/kasparsd/comment-approved-notify) plugin (which hasn’t been touched in 10 years) to extend the notifications to comment approvals, replies and new comments in general.

[Jetpack comments](https://jetpack.com/support/comments/) has some of these features but I wonder if there is a place for a decentralized solution?

An alternative to email is the [Fediverse](https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/) which supports replies across WordPress sites and other ActivityPub clients. In addition, it also handles notifications nicely in the mobile apps.

What do you think?