How to Make Threaded Comments for Your Blog

If you’re like most of us internet marketers, you use blogs as one of your most important promotion tools. You use it to post your messages, and to interact with your readers through the comments on your posts. You want your readers to become very interactive with your sites to keep them coming back for every new post.

The problem most of us face with the comments is our answers are hiding far down the list from our readers questions. On a forum or discussion board, the questions and answers flow right after each other in a nice threaded format. Making it that easy for your readers to find their answers, and for other readers to be able to follow the flow of the questions and answers. A threaded question and answer format makes your site a much better resource.

The good news is, you can make your Wordpress blog comments threaded just like a forum.  Your readers will love the ease of finding the answers, and the easy flow of the comments. You will need to install a simple Wordpress plugin to extend the features of your comments. If you follow these steps, you’ll have it installed and running in just a few minutes :

1. Login to your Wordpress blog to access your Dashboard.
2. On left side, click tiny arrow on Plugins section then click ‘Add New’.

   

3. Type ‘Wordpress Thread Comment’ on search box, hit ‘Search Plugins’ button. Click ‘Install’.

   

4. Click ‘Install Now’ when description window appears.

   

5. Wordpress will do the installation for you, don’t forget to click ‘Activate Plugin’

   

6. Once your plugin is activated, you can customize it by clicking ‘WP Thread Comment’ on Settings section (bottom-left), but this step is optional. You will have threaded comments soon after this plugin is activated.

I want to make sure you understand, there is one big thing you will need to watch out for. Each reply to a comment indents slightly to the right. This isn’t a big issue, unless you have a very active readership who comment and reply to each other. Then you will see your threaded comments slowly moving to the right, and they may end up traveling off of your normal screen size. You will need to evaluate the habits of your readers to see if this will cause problems for your blog.

Threaded comments for your blog, will make your blog more interactive and easy to read, bringing your readers back to check their answers, and becoming an active part of your community.