DCO Comment Attachment
Allows your visitors to attach files with their comments
The facts
- Rating
- 4.9★ from 10
- Active installs
- 5k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 2 Oct 2022
- Added
- May 2019
- Requires WP
- 4.6
- Tested up to
- WP 6.0.14
- Requires PHP
- 5.6
- Downloads
- 67,336
Our analysis
AI-assistedDCO Comment Attachment is a WordPress plugin that enables visitors to attach various file types, including images, videos, and documents, to their comments. It also allows for automatic embedding of links from platforms like YouTube and Facebook within the comment text.
The plugin includes settings to manage file uploads, such as limiting file sizes, requiring attachments, and controlling how attachments are displayed. It is suitable for sites that want to enhance user interaction through multimedia comments and is particularly useful for blogs or forums that encourage community engagement.
Best for: This plugin is best for blogs or forums that want to allow multimedia comments from users.
What it does well
- ✓Allows attachment of images, videos, and documents to comments
- ✓Supports automatic embedding of links from multiple services
- ✓Offers extensive settings for managing attachments
- ✓Integrates with the WordPress Media Library
- ✓Enables moderation of comments with attachments
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on specific user experiences or issues
Verdict
DCO Comment Attachment provides a straightforward way to enhance comments with attachments, making it a useful tool for engaging users on your site.
From the developer
Denis Yanchevskiy's own description of DCO Comment Attachment, lightly tidied.
DCO Comment Attachment allows your visitors to attach images, videos, audios, documents and other files with their comments. They will also be able to automatically embed links from Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and other services in the comment text.
With plugin settings you can:
- Limit the maximum file upload size.
- Make an attachment required.
- Specify whether the attachment will be embedded or displayed as a link.
- Enable/Disable autoembed links (like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in the comment text.
- Select an attachment image size from thumbnails available in your WordPress install.
- Link a thumbnail to a full-size image with lightbox plugins support (see FAQ for details).
- Open a full-size image in a new tab or link thumbnail to the attachment page.
- Enable/Disable multiple upload.
- Combine images to gallery.
- Select an attachment image size for the images gallery.
- Restrict attachment file types.
- Decide who will be able to upload attachments: all users or only logged users.
- Manually moderate comments with attachments.
You can also:
- Add, replace or delete an attachment from a comment on the Edit Comment screen.
- Attach an unlimited number of attachments to the comment in the admin panel.
- Delete an attachment from a specific comment or bulk delete attachments from comments on the Comments screen.
- Display attachments attached to comments to the current post (or a specific post) with the
[dco_ca]shortcode. You can also filter by type. See FAQ for details.
Attachments are uploaded to the WordPress Media Library and deleted along with the comment (if this is set in the settings).
REST API is supported.
DCO Comment Attachment is also available on GitHub.