I was just reading the wordpress.com blog and came to know that now the beta testing of “Comment Reply via Email” has finished and it is now open for all users to reply to any comment via email. Wow … it is really an interesting thing, isn’t it?

Wordpress is making big leaps now. Ease is the most important feature in wordpress and this is another step towards it.

We hope that we will be able to get this option in the comming wordpress code for self hosted blogs.

Here is a guide for those who have blogs on wordpress.com so that you can easily activiate this feature.

There are two things to enable this feature:

First, make sure email notifications for comments are turned on. Second, select the ‘Enable sending comment replies via email’ option. All of these items are on the Settings > Discussion page.

With those options in place instead of clicking back to your dashboard, you can reply to the comment straight from e-mail. When you click reply, a special WordPress e-mail address will appear in the Sender line, matching your reply to the proper comment thread. Send it off, and your reply is up on your blog in seconds.

Really digging the blending of blogging and email? Just wait, there’s more to come!