WordPress Guestbook plugins are very limited, however the DMSGuestbook plugin is a really excellent guestbook plugin with all the features one would expect. It is the leading WP guestbook plugin by far, having practically no competition at the moment. Let’s take a look at the features it offers.
DMSGuestbook
DMSGuestbook is an easy configurable guestbook with a lot of features. You can customize the whole DMSGuestbook to your desire.
It can search your guestbook entries’ Name, Message, IP, Website and Email Fields, and also has Spam protection. In fact it will list all the spam detected comments in a separate area in the admin panel for your perusal. It’s fully customisable in terms of design and also has loads of options, the best thing is to try it out, you cannot go wrong with DMSGuestbook as it really beats all other competition hands down.
The steps for setting up a guestbook on your blog using this plugin:
- Create a page where you want to display the DMSGuestbook.
- Save the page and assign it under “Guestbook settings” -> “Basic”.
- Customize the guestbook to your desire!
And here is the full feature set of DMSGuestbook:
- Simple work on the attitudes over front-end (e.g. text color, guestbook width, border color…)
- Extended attitude possibility over the css file
- Preset DMSGuestbook caption text in different languages (e.g: german, english)
- Every guestbook has its own language template
- Make your own language template in few minutes
- Set mandatory fields where user must be filled out
- Set text hidden in the DMSGuestbook (e.g. ip address)
- Captcha antispam (image, mathematically, reCAPTCHA)
- Manage the DMSGuestbook user entries. (e.g. name, message, url, ip address)
- Sidebar widget
- Email notification when guestbook post was to submit
- Administrator can review posts before shown this
- Create your own guestbook template (beta)
- Administrator can search entries in guestbook
- Gravatar function
- Multiple guestbooks
- Define a selectbox and fill this with your own data
- Super Guestbook: One guestbook can have more than one languages
I thought I would try this, and I hope this plugin would work fine, have mention your post in my article
Hi! Great plugin. Works perfectly. I have a question; I’m trying to embed the guestbook on my index.php just before the footer is called, but, since there is nothing on the actual Page(I named it ‘GuestBook’) tht was created, hence, nothing is displayed. So is there a way to embed it on index.php?
Also, instead of displaying the messages as a table can we have something like an iframe or textarea which scrolls and shows the latest msg on top when index.php is loaded and refreshes msgs every 5secs or so?
Hi Rhea the best would be to ask this question on the plugin’s support forum, I’m sure it can be done though.
Vielen Dank für den interessanten Artikel, bin schon gespannt, wie sich dieses Gästebuch-Plugin in meinen Blogs macht. Liebe Grüße
Danke Alexandra.
I had a loss of someone very dear to me. He had loads and loads of friends from all over the world. I set up a website in memoriam, friends can drop by, leave a note, tell a short story… whatever.
I worked on this plug in for about two hours – sifting through the FAQ’s, trying to figure out how all of this comes together…. I finally got it to show up on the assigned page!
“input errors” are littered everywhere.
“test comments” won’t clear out.
The SMTP settings were double-checked – no problem – and plug-in doesn’t email out.
…phphphphph…
I’ll try something else and kiss this past two hours as a total wash….
I did this …
Save the page and assign it under “Guestbook settings” -> “Basic”
It’s not saving. Any ideas?
good plugin
Hallo,
super Plugin,
ich versuche nur noch herauszufinden, wie man die antwort-funktion für den admin einstellen kann.
Bei den Kommentaren auf dieser Seite hier gibt es auch die Funktion “Reply”. Wie kann man das einstellen?
Danke für die Hilfe!