I’ve been using wpDiscuz for years with zero issues along with the Media Uploader add-on. Tons of customization/options in the main plugin & add-on settings.. Recently purchased the Subscription Manager add-on & found it was lacking a couple of features that not only I needed but would add value to the add-on for others. Posted the feature(s) request & they pushed an update out within a few days with both added. 5-star plugin/support combo.

I like wpDiscuz and I’ve used it because it offers a much better commenting experience than the default WordPress system, but the update frequency has become ridiculous.

Over the past few weeks, there’s been update after update after update, sometimes only a few days apart. At this point, it feels like every time I log into WordPress there’s another wpDiscuz update waiting for me. If these were all critical security fixes, I’d understand, but many of them appear to be bug fixes, tweaks, or fixes for issues introduced by previous releases.

That creates unnecessary maintenance for site owners, especially since wpDiscuz recommends clearing caches and purging CDN caches after updates. When you manage multiple WordPress sites like I do, this gets old very quickly.

I appreciate active development, and I’d much rather use a plugin that is maintained than one that has been abandoned. But there needs to be a better balance. Non-critical fixes should be tested and bundled into fewer, more substantial releases instead of pushing a new version every few days.

The constant update cycle has reached the point where I’m considering replacing an otherwise good plugin simply because I’m tired of maintaining it.

If you’re serious about building a website on WordPress, wpdiscuz is a must-have. Highly recommended

Day 2

I managed after a day and half to get rid of the “fill in the required fields” message that popup for users wherether logged in or not, its the rich editor and the name and email field that causes this issue.

If I make the name field required and the email optional and deactivate the rich editor on both desktip and mobile then the message dissappear but now it creates 2 new issue.

Star ratings are not clickable and comment nesting for replies doesn’t work eventhough the feature is turned on in wp discussion tab.

If you reply to a comment the comment gets posted as an individual /standalone comment at the top of the comment section and not as a nested reply.

Honestly, I’m done struggling. I fix 1 thing and multiple other stuff breaks in your plugin! I’m now dropping star ratings because of the additional issues that now arised.

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Day 1

The plugin is nice, especially the star ratings but it’s a nightmare to setup.

The whole day I’ve tried to get the plugin not to show “input too short” and “fill in the required fields” error messages.

My input is set to min 1 and unlimited to max so basically the default settings but it gives the error of “input too short” so I changed it from 1 to 2 min and from unlimited to 1000 max and finally the message stopped.

But now it gives the “fill in the required fields” error. I unticked the option in the wp discussion tab for users must fill in their name and email before they can comment. Great. Now I disabled the required field in the wpdiscuz default form field for name and email.

It worked once.

I closed out of my site, opened it again and navigated to a post and tried to comment and theres the “fill in the required fields” block, so I fill in the name eventhough it’s not required anymore and the email and hit the button and there’s the message again. There’s nothing left to fill in.

I changed the comment requirements to users must be logged in, now the name and email boxes vanish but I still can’t comment, the same error message popup.

I even went as far to disable everything in the wordpress discussion tab, cleared the cache and cookies, logged in via incognito and my tablet on another email and still get the same error message.

I deactivated all my plugins and still same message. I don’t use jetpack so it can’t be their comment form thing causing conflicts.

I switched from my kadence theme to the default twenty-five theme and same error.

It works once.

There’s no restrictions setup to how many times someone can comment either.

Guests that comment needs to fill out the name and email box everytime they want to reply to a thread, aint filling it in once enough until they leave the page? Only thing I want is for logged out users not to be able to comment under the anonymous lable.

I’m about to uninstall the plugin as I can’t be bothered to struggle this much with it. It’s definitely not worth spending another day trying to get rid of those messages.

I’m not a developer, and before I spend money on hiring one just to make a plugin work, I’d rather just not use it.

Downloaded the Plugin today.
Installation, Setup easy, is up & running in a few minutes, perhaps not perfect within these few minutes, but working.
Goog overview, goog presentation of settings.
Best of all – it is free of charge obviously 🙂 – Thank you Developers !

Collecting experience now…

After an upgrade to php 8.3 the plugin broke my customer’s website.
It took some discussions here at WP.org to convince the plugin’s team to add more validations into their code.
But after they fixed it the PHP errors are gone.

Thanks!

wpDiscuz is user-friendly, pretty light as a plugin, and has a ton of add-ons. The support staff are very efficient too. Give wpDiscuz a try.

I have been using wpDiscuz for a long time and I’m very satisfied with it. The plugin is reliable, user-friendly and offers everything I need for managing comments on my site.

Ein wirklich guter support. Und auch das Script finde ich super.

They just pack too much junk into this app. I can’t even figure out how to delete comments…there is so much nonsense even the basic stuff is confusing