Comments mean a lot to the success of any kind of blog, whether it be a political blog, technology blog, or even a personal blog. We have to remember that this platform is meant to provide for a two-way conversation and not as a one-way soapbox. Discussion and interaction are inherently important.

What can you do if someone leaves a particularly good comment on one of your posts? What if someone leaves a bad comment that isn’t necessarily worthy of being marked as spam or being deleted? The aptly named Feature Comments is a WordPress plug-in that was coded with this exact functionality in mind.

From the Edit Comments area in the WordPress administration panel, you can choose to do one of two things to each and every comment left on your blog. You can choose to “feature” a comment if you think that it is particularly apt or informative, or you can choose to “bury” a comment that isn’t quite as worthy of that kind of attention.

This is quite different from the voting-based system that you may see from other solutions, since the choice to feature or bury a comment is solely at the discretion of the blog owner. Go to WPprogrammer.com for more information, screenshots, and to download the Feature Comments plug-in.