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NEW Comments Addon: Encourage Feedback & Foster Engagement!

NEW Comments Addon: Encourage Feedback & Foster Engagement!

Written By: author avatar Southie Williamson
author avatar Southie Williamson
Southie is a writer and growth strategist for Envira Gallery. With a background in digital marketing and visual arts, she helps creatives and businesses build beautiful, high-performing websites on WordPress.
    

Attention all Envira Gallery users! We’re excited to announce a brand-new addon designed to enhance user interaction with your galleries: the Comments Addon.

Now, you can instantly boost engagement by enabling comments on your galleries and albums, allowing visitors to interact with your photos and videos directly! This addon is perfect for users looking to foster deeper connections with their audience and build a community around their work.

Let’s take a closer look at how the Comments addon works and what it can do for you.

Why Add Comments to Your Galleries?

Allowing comments on your images is a great way to gather feedback, engage with your audience, and start conversations around your work. Whether you’re showcasing a portfolio, collaborating with clients, or building an online community, the Comments Addon makes interaction seamless.

  • Encourage Engagement: Visitors can leave comments on your images, sharing their thoughts and feedback.
  • Create Conversations: Users can reply to each other’s comments, building a sense of community around your galleries.
  • Easily Moderate: Manage comments right from your WordPress admin area to keep the conversation relevant and positive.

Easily Enable Gallery Comments

Getting comments up and running on your galleries is simple! Just go to Envira Gallery » Addons and install the Comments Addon.

Make sure to enable the lightbox on your gallery or album. Then, scroll down to the Comments tab and toggle on the comments option.

Customize Your Comment Settings

Envira Gallery Comments Addon Settings

In the Comments Settings, you’ll see a number of customizations:

  • Visibility: Choose whether the panel is always visible or only opens on click.
  • Position: Display the comments panel at the bottom or side of the lightbox.
  • Avatar: Display user Gravatars based on their email address.
  • Comments Count: Display the total number of comments for each image.
  • Replies: Allow users to reply to comments.
  • Date: Show the date on each comment.

When you’re finished, remember to Save your changes and publish your gallery.

View and Moderate Comments

Gallery and Album commenting works just like regular post comments. You can easily moderate, edit, or delete them from your Comments admin screen in WordPress.

Moderate comments on galleries

Now, visitors can start leaving comments directly on your gallery images. It’s that easy!

Comments panel in the gallery lightbox

With just a few clicks, you can start building a thriving community around your work, allowing visitors to engage like never before—pretty cool, right?

The Comments Addon is available for all Pro users. Upgrade today to start boosting visitor engagement!

We can’t wait to see how you use this new feature to interact with your audience. If you have any questions or need assistance, our customer support team is ready to help. Feel free to contact us directly or drop a comment below.

Have an idea for a new feature? We’re always looking for ways to improve Envira Gallery! Submit a feature request to let us know what you have in mind.

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Southie is a writer and growth strategist for Envira Gallery. With a background in digital marketing and visual arts, she helps creatives and businesses build beautiful, high-performing websites on WordPress.

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Comments

  1. That’s a really good (and long awaited) functionaliy! Thanks a lot for that.
    But, what about SPAM comments? Is there some Captcha feature or similar else?

    With best regards,
    TJ

    1. Hi TJ,

      Happy to hear you’re excited about it!

      The Comments Addon uses WordPress’s core comments system, so there’s no need for extra spam configuration. It will automatically work with any anti-spam or Captcha plugins you currently use for blog comments. 🙂

      Let me know if you have any other questions!

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