Comment Experience by Progress Planner
Make comments management easier by applying the simple hacks Joost has gathered over the years.
The facts
- Rating
- 3.5★ from 13
- Active installs
- 500+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 10 Nov 2025
- Added
- Jun 2015
- Requires WP
- 6.6
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Downloads
- 71,188
Our analysis
AI-assistedComment Experience by Progress Planner is a WordPress plugin designed to simplify comment management. It introduces various features that enhance the core commenting system, including cleaner notification emails and options for enforcing comment policies.
This plugin is suitable for website owners who want to improve their comment section's functionality and manage user interactions more effectively. It offers tools for routing comments, adjusting comment lengths, and communicating with commenters directly from the admin panel.
Best for: Website owners looking to improve their comment management system.
What it does well
- ✓Cleans up comment notification emails
- ✓Enforces a comment policy for users
- ✓Allows routing of comment emails to another user
- ✓Provides options to manage comment lengths
- ✓Includes tools for emailing individual commenters
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on user experience and effectiveness
- •No details on compatibility with other plugins or themes
Verdict
Comment Experience offers practical tools for managing comments, but further user feedback would provide better insight into its overall effectiveness.
From the developer
Progress Planner's own description of Comment Experience by Progress Planner, lightly tidied.
Make comments management easier by applying the simple hacks Joost has gathered over the years.
This plugin adds some small hacks around core WordPress comments to make them more bearable:
- Cleaner comment notification emails.
- The option to enforce a comment policy: just create a comment policy page, toggle the option on and select it, and
commenters will have to accept your comment policy before being able to comment. - The option to forward comments to an email address (for instance for your support team) and then trash them.
- The option to disallow comments below and above a certain length.
- The option to redirect first time commenters to a “thank you” page.
- An input field on the comment edit screen to change the comment parent ID.
- Links in the admin comments section to email individual commenters.
- A button in the WP toolbar to email all the commenters on a post.
- Adds a comment routing option. This adds a dropdown in a post’s discussion settings, allowing the routing of comment emails to another user.
See the screenshots to get an even better idea of the plugins’ functionality.
Have you found an issue?
If you have bugs to report, please go to the plugin’s GitHub repository. For security issues, please use our vulnerability disclosure program, which is managed by PatchStack. They will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and, of course, notify us.