Rating: 5 stars

This is a simple but excellent plugin which allows you to quote text with a link back to the quoted comment. It works with all recent versions of WordPress.

Rating: 4 stars

I’ve used this plug-in for years and it’s become well-used fixture by my commenting community.

I have used indented comments before to group replies, but these can get nested so deeply as to look awful. Quote Comments is an alternative, allowing a user to select specific text to reply to, and automatically copy it into a new comment, formatted with a blockquote with a hyperlink back to the original comment.

It’s main limitation is that it doesn’t work with some plug-ins, including Jet Pack Comments and Tiny MCE Comments.