CommentPress Core WordPress Plugin
CommentPress Core allows fine-grained commenting in the margins of a text. Use it to annotate, workshop or debate a social text in a social context.
CommentPress Core is an open source theme and plugin for WordPress that allows readers to comment in the margins of a text. Readers may comment paragraph-by-paragraph, line-by-line, block-by-block or by selecting text (coming soon to touch devices).
Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress Core you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. Use it in combination with BuddyPress and Groupblogs to create communities around your documents.
Please note: this plugin comes bundled with two official themes, one of which must be active for CommentPress Core to function. The new "CommentPress Modern Theme" will be auto-activated when the plugin is first activated. The old "CommentPress Default Theme" is still included
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Usage of CommentPress Core over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 6 to 3 — down 3 (-50%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 3 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 4 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 5 | -1 |
| November 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 6 | — |
Sites running CommentPress Core
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