by Shahjahan Jewel 4.3 (6 reviews)

FluentComments – AJAX Comments, Anti-Spam & Comment Email Notifications

Name: FluentComments – AJAX Comments, Anti-Spam & Comment Email Notifications
Rating: 4.3 (6 reviews)
Author: Shahjahan Jewel

AJAX comments with layered spam protection and no CAPTCHA. Threaded replies, load more, and 5 editable notification emails. Free, no pro version.

FluentComments ranks #7,716 among WordPress.org plugins with 700+ active installations, is #274 of 2,958 in the Discussion & Community category, a 4.3/5 rating from 6 reviews, and was last updated Sep 1, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v2.1.1 Current Version v2.1.1

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 01 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 6 days ago Last Refreshed on

#274 of 2,958 in Discussion & Community Top 10% by installs Downloads +13.6% this week

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700+

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43.4

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7.7K

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86%

Review 4.3 out of 5

4.3 (6 reviews)

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.1.1
Last Updated: Sep 01, 2026
Requires WP: 6.5+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Shahjahan Jewel

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.3
Reviews: 6
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to replace the native comment form with an AJAX-powered version. It solves spam and slow comment loading by adding cryptographic spam protection and realtime AJAX submission, while keeping design compatibility with most themes and page builders.

AJAX powered realtime comments
Spam protection via cryptographic mechanisms
Intuitive comment form
Email notifications for new comments
Compatible with all themes (except FSE)
Compatible with all page builders
Shortcode support for FSE themes

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about FluentComments – AJAX Comments, Anti-Spam & Comment Email Notifications

It is free, and there is no pro version. Every feature listed on this page is in the free plugin: the spam protection, all five emails, the template designer and the block. Nothing is held back, and the whole thing is GPLv2 open source on GitHub.

By making the submission itself expensive to fake. Posting a comment requires a short lived, cryptographically signed token that is issued in a separate request and tied to a session cookie, so it cannot be replayed or reused. On top of that there is a honeypot field with an install specific name, a minimum time between opening the form and submitting it, and rate limiting keyed per session with a per IP backstop. Anything posted straight to the default WordPress endpoint without our fields is refused outright. Suspicious submissions are scored and held for moderation rather than thrown away, and every threshold can be changed with a filter.

No. FluentComments is built so your readers never have to prove they are human. The checks happen between the browser and your server, not in front of the person trying to leave a comment.

Yes. Akismet inspects the comment itself and needs nothing from the form, so it runs normally alongside FluentComments.

FluentComments renders its own comment form, so a field another plugin wants to add, like a CAPTCHA or an extra question, is never printed on the page. Because nobody could fill that field in, running its validator anyway would reject every comment on your site. So those validators are skipped for the duration of a FluentComments submission. If you want to keep another plugin's check, add its callback to the fluent_comments/allowed_comment_hooks filter and render its field with the fluent_comments/form_fields action.

Yes. Add the FluentComments block in the Site Editor, or use the [fluent_comments] shortcode. The plugin never edits your templates on your behalf. But the settings screen does work out which template each post type renders through, looks inside it and its template parts, and tells you which ones still need the block.

Yes. Drop the [fluent_comments] shortcode into any builder's shortcode or text widget and the full comment list and form render there.

Yes, and it is designed for it. Nothing visitor specific is printed into the page, so a cached comment form is still a valid one. There is no security nonce anywhere in the plugin, which means a form served from cache can never fail with the "your session has expired" error that nonce based forms hit. Everything per visitor is fetched on demand, only when someone actually goes to comment.

No. The first page of comments is rendered into the page itself, so a visitor who only reads never triggers an extra request. There is no webfont, no external service and no third party script. Comments load in pages rather than all at once.

Yes. FluentComments uses the normal WordPress comments table and the normal WordPress comment functions. Nothing is migrated, copied or moved. These are your existing comments, displayed and protected better. Deactivate the plugin and your comments are still exactly where they were.