December 22, 2023

Simple Comment Quicktags Plugin

Make commenting easier with bold, italic, add link and quote buttons on top of the form.

This plugin displays the most basic of quicktag buttons on your comment forms, using the Quicktag API built into WordPress (as of 3.3). No jQuery needed.

Contribute on GitHub.

Installation

Install and activate the plugin.

Screenshots

The Quicktags

FAQ

Why did you do this?

Because I needed a simple plugin to do this job and decided to do it on his own. Since the Quicktag API is build in this plugin is very lightweight.

Why only those tags?

After careful consideration those are the only ones they ever use! If you have a reasonable argument why I should add in others, I’ll listen. Thus far, the only suggestion interesting was ‘code’ and I determined people won’t use that unless they know about it, and thus are capable to entering it manually.

Will you add in options to pick and chose our tags?

No. I don’t have a need for it, and I don’t want to include code I’m not going to personally make use of. It makes it much harder on me to support it later. (Read Herbert Hecht’s article “Rare Conditions � An Important Cause of Failures” to understand my views on including rarely used code. tl;dr: I try not to.)

Does this work on Multisite?

Yes. It can be network activated or per-site, works fine.

Will you expand this to BuddyPress?

Not at this time.

Changelog

3.0.5

Minor text changes

3.0.4

Compatibility with WordPress 6.4

3.0.3

Compatibility with WordPress 6.3

3.0

Migration to GitHub actions.
No code changes.

2.6

Removed jQuery dependency.

2.5

Plugin Name: Simple Comment Quicktag
Fork of the fork of my own Comment QuickTags plugin by Ipstenu.
Reuploaded code to WordPress repository.
Removed options. The plugin has a single purpose and can be deactivated.
Removed css prefixes and fixed hover
Removed bbPress support. I will add it back if I understand the problem.
Removed donate link.

1.0

Plugin Name: Basic Comment Quicktag was removed from WordPress Repository
2012 April 27, by Ipstenu
Initial fork of MarcTV Comment QuickTag
Added in support for bbPress
Added in checks to only load JS/CSS when on a page where one might leave comments
Added failure if not WordPress 3.3 or greater

0.1

Plugin Name: MarcTV Quicktags
2010 Basic plugin concept and first release by Marc Tönsing