{"id":1980,"date":"2019-03-26T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpvivid.com\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2020-02-02T04:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T04:57:32","slug":"graphcomment-comment-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpvivid.com\/graphcomment-comment-plugin.html","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Audience Follow The Relevant Discussion with GraphComment Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

For long the comment plugin landscape<\/a> has been dominated by a handful of big names: Disqus Comments, Facebook Comments, wpDiscuz, among many others.<\/p>\n

Disqus comments<\/a> is big because of the clean and simple to user-friendly interface along with features one would need to encourage discussion on a website.<\/p>\n

wpDiscuz <\/a>came to offer what Disqus does; only it returns the power and control over the comment system to the website owners.<\/p>\n

Facebook comments<\/a>, extends the power of the giant social media network<\/a> to a website.<\/p>\n

When it comes to engagement and user interaction, these comment plugins provide a WordPress website<\/a> a powerful space that encourages relevant discussion.<\/p>\n

One would never get it wrong with any of them.<\/p>\n

But there is a new entrant to the already saturated comment plugin market \u2013 GraphComment plugin<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GraphComment<\/p>\n

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And why would one care much about it if there are comment plugins in existence?<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you have been following our articles about social comment plugins<\/a>, then you probably think I sound like a broken record.<\/p>\n

I just can’t say it enough.<\/p>\n

The success of your website or brand online<\/a> is in a way determined in part by the content quality you showcase to your audience and the other part the discoverability and inclusion of your audience into your story.<\/p>\n

The days of one-sided communication are long gone.<\/p>\n

Your customers today are opinionated, and they love to say what they think and feel. Technology, with the proliferation of social networking websites<\/a>, has given such a customer the space to air her voice.<\/p>\n

The other thing is, advertising the way we knew is dying.<\/p>\n

The new wave is content marketing. And I am certain by your being here you are very much interested in the success of your content, website, and brand online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the center of content marketing is user engagement. Successful brands<\/a> are those that craft great campaigns<\/a>, use some paid media channels like ads to give the initial push to their content and then get their followers on board; those are campaigns that catch fire and go viral.<\/p>\n

As a website owner, your role does not stop at creating great content; you go a step further and provide an enabling environment for your visitors to interact with your content<\/a> and the community you are building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Okay, this article is not about content marketing or digital strategies<\/a>, but, I think GraphComment provides a savvy marketer or business owner a great tool to encourage great conversations on their website.<\/p>\n

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Pros of GraphComment<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

GraphComment gives you all the standard features you would expect with a modern comment plugin<\/a> designed to encourage discussion.<\/p>\n

Features like:<\/p>\n

GraphComment does the most important thing. It allows visitors to leave comments to content on your website.<\/p>\n

It provides a space for discussions to happen in real-time<\/a>. No one wants to reload a page to read the proceeding replies.<\/p>\n

Solid spam management<\/a>. With its inbuilt features and the added layer provided by the integration to social media sites.<\/p>\n

Integration to social networking sites allows a convenient and familiar way for visitors to sign in<\/a> and share content on the website.<\/p>\n

Mobile friendliness. Website readers today are reading websites on the go with mobile devices<\/a>; tablets, phones, it is, therefore, important that devise responsiveness be central to any design.<\/p>\n

GraphCOmment is responsive to devices.<\/p>\n

That is what you would get from wpDiscuz, Disqus, Facebook Comments, and probably any other modern comment plugin. \u00a0So what separates GraphComment from the pack?<\/p>\n

Simple and beautiful user interface<\/strong><\/h4>\n

You cannot help it but fall in love with GraphComment\u2019s user interface.<\/p>\n

Dubbed The Bubble Flow, a widgetized graphical user interface that is clean and organizes conversations in a very simple and readable manner for even the busiest of websites,<\/p>\n

Unique to it is the Bubble rank algorithm that moves the most active and relevant discussions to the top encouraging relevant discussions.<\/p>\n

It also provides for text formatting<\/a> – Bold, underline, hyperlink, italic…<\/p>\n

Then bring more life to discussions with inline media embedment feature where one can add videos, pictures<\/a>, and more media to the comments.<\/p>\n

One important and unique feature is the ability to share an entire discussion with a unique Yak.li URL shortener<\/a> on social media sites.<\/p>\n

Great moderation tools<\/strong><\/h4>\n

An important part of any community whether offline or online is the ability to administer it.<\/p>\n

I love how GraphCOmment pulls this off with its moderation features.<\/p>\n

Beside the standard features that you would get with any other comment plugin, \u00a0GraphComment takes it a notch further with a simple to use moderation area for administrators.<\/p>\n

The smart moderation feature on the expert and enterprise plans uses a hands-off approach to approve comments from reputable authors automatically<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For larger teams, you can add multi-moderators<\/a>, who you can assign unique pages.<\/p>\n

Unique to GraphComment is it’s Editorialize and pin discussions on the expert and enterprise plans. Moderators can steer conversations by highlighting particular discussions and pinning them to the top, with a unique shareable link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The GraphComment plugin fully integrates with the native WordPress comment system<\/a>; if you are moving to this plugin, you can easily import old WordPress comments, since it\u2019s a cloud-based comment plugin, you can also import your comments from the GraphComment servers to your local database, you never know, you may one day change comment plugins.<\/p>\n

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Cons of the plugin<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I do have a lot more good things to say about this comment plugin than bad.<\/p>\n

One or two things though.<\/p>\n

It is still fairly new in the market, unlike its counterparts that are tested and proven over time in breal production websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is always uncertainty and skepticism hovering over new market entrants until they prove themselves.<\/p>\n

If some of the uncertainty is performance and reliability related, GraphComments has a great support\u00a0system<\/a> in place where anyone can receive free support.<\/p>\n

Secondly, it may not be an issue to many, heck it is not to me, but from experience, there are still people who are uncomfortable with their data on other peoples servers<\/a> where they do not have control.<\/p>\n

It is the reason behind wpDiscuz\u2019s popularity over its counterparts, both in terms of privacy and control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although GraphComment enables one to import their comments to their local database, it does not clear the hanging thought of what could happen to data in another person\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

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Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Overall, this is one great WordPress comments plugin that you will love working with and that your audience will equally love to share their views.<\/p>\n

I want to believe they are redefining the commenting space and will certainly be a force to reckon.<\/p>\n

Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

Give it a try and share with us your views about it here.<\/p>\n

Still need more options of comment system plugins, you will love our hand-picked list of the best comment system plugins<\/a> for your WordPress site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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