iKomment – Free SEO Comments with Spam control & with both Front & backend Moderation. All Pro features come absolutely FREE.

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BUILT-IN SEO, OUT OF THE BOX
- Crawlable the moment search engines arrive, A latest-comments module that links every conversation across your site, spreading crawl traffic to pages that would otherwise sit unseen, Clean semantic markup that search engines parse without effort.
The complete SEO layer ships in the free package. There is nothing to unlock.

FRONTEND MODERATION - INCLUDED FREE
Why walk to the backend when the comment is right in front of you? Every authorized moderator gets a full toolbar on the article page itself:
- Approve, hold, pin, mark as spam, or delete a comment in place, without leaving the page
- A "Review pending (N)" badge shows exactly how many comments are waiting for a decision
- Every moderation action is recorded, so you always know who did what
- Guest submissions fail closed: untrusted visitors never publish silently

A built-in SPAM ENGINE that learns - NO MONTHLY FEES, EVER
iKomment does not need to outsource spam protection to paid third-party services. It ships with its own Spam Engine self-Learning Algo; and it is absolutely free:
- A self-training Spam Engine that learns from every approval and every spam call you make, along with Learned word lists that grow automatically with each moderation decision
- Per-IP rate limiting that slows flood and drive-by spam to a crawl
- A silent honeypot plus a signed time trap that stop bots before they type
- Optional Cloudflare Turnstile when you want one extra gate
- We respect your choice thus requiring No external spam service to sign up for (Admin choice optional), no monthly bill - the engine runs inside Joomla itself at zero cost

COMMUNITY FEATURES your Readers Expect - ALL FREE
- Threaded replies that keep conversations readable
- Light Markdown formatting: bold, italic, code and safe links (deliberatively keeping it simple)
- Guest commenting under full Joomla permission control
- A latest-comments module for your sidebar, footer or any module position

EFFORTLESS to run - and FREE, of-course
- One package installs everything: component, content plugin and latest-comments module
- One-click updates through the native Joomla Update System
- Sensible defaults from the first minute - no configuration marathon
- Native Joomla ACL decides who comments, who moderates, who manages
- A complete audit trail of every moderation action

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THERE IS NO PRO VERSION
Every single feature on this page - the SEO layer, frontend moderation, the learning spam engine, the community features, the update flow - is absolutely free. Install it once, and everything cited above is yours from the first click.
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FEATURES - everything below ships in one package, and the whole package is absolutely FREE. No PRO Version.

SEO -
- Crawlable Comments: rendered on the server inside your article HTML, so search engines index discussions exactly as they index content - absolutely FREE
- Zero Third-Party Scripts: no external JavaScript, no render-blocking bloat -
- Comment Count Badge: live comment counts on your articles -
- Latest Comments Module: fresh conversations site-wide, with category filters and ordering included.

READERS' TOOLKIT
- Threaded Replies: verified reply nesting keeps conversations tidy -
- Voting: up and down votes surface the best posts -
- Emoji Reactions: one reaction per person, an admin-picked emoji set, members-only -
- @Mentions: participant autocomplete while typing, highlighted names, email pings, sane limits -
- Markdown-Lite: bold, italic, code and safe links, escaped and cleaned – (KISS applied – intentionally keeping it simple & short)
- Edit-Own and Delete-Own: authors fix their own posts inside a configurable window -
- Flagging: readers report problems straight to the moderation inbox -
- Sorting: top, newest or oldest -
- Pinned Comments: spotlight the best contribution -
- Avatars: deterministic initials chips plus opt-in Gravatar - Free
- Social Share: one-tap sharing to X, WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram and LinkedIn, plus copy-the-link -
- Voice Input: native speech-to-text in the composer with a nine-language picker, lazy-loaded - free
- Dark Mode: auto, light or dark theme, accent color, corner radius, site-font inheritance -
- Guest Posting: full permission control, returning guests recognized, untrusted submissions fail closed -
- 11 Built-In Languages (BETA version): the widget ships translated in-house, offline, cached, no API keys needed - free

MODERATION
- Frontend Moderation: approve, hold, pin, mark as spam, or delete inline on the article page - FREE here.
- Review Pending Badge: a live counter of comments waiting for a decision -
- Moderation Dashboard: pending, approved, spam and today counters with quick-approve -
- Posts Manager: filters, search and batch approve/spam/delete -
- Three Moderation Modes: manual, auto, and trusted-auto where proven authors skip the queue.
- Audit Trail: every moderation action is recorded -
- Moderate-Only Groups: a dedicated Joomla ACL action lets non-admins moderate safely -
- Email Notifications: pending, flagged, reply, approved and mention events, with signed one-click opt-out -
- Flexible Scope: category include/exclude plus per-article overrides -

SPAM FREE DEFENSE
- Built-In Spam Engine That Learns: a self-training SPAM Algo. studies every decision you make, with engine health and top tokens on the dashboard, link counts, links-in-name, repeated content, caps ratio - runs inside Joomla itself, no onetime/monthly fees ever. FREE
- Adaptive Word Lists: the engine grows its vocabulary from every call -
- Admin Word Filters: per-word hold or spam actions -
- CAPTCHA Support: plugs into Joomla's core Captcha API, so Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and ALTCHA all work without extra code - free
- Rate Limiting: minimum seconds between posts plus a daily cap per visitor -
- Honeypot and Time Trap: a silent fake success for bots, a signed timing check for humans -
- Optional AI Reviewer: connect Groq, Google Gemini or Mistral for a second opinion on borderline posts, off by default – (Admin optional choice respected)

MIGRATION AND TOOLS
- Comment Migrator: supports import from select Joomla! extensions, plus CSV and WordPress WXR files, with dry-run preview and duplicate protection - free
- Export: full CSV or JSON export of posts and threads - free
- Repair Installation: re-creates missing tables idempotently, never touching existing data -

Coming Soon = FREE Interoperable compatibility with major Joomla! Extensions and more to come along.

Try it live: https://ikomment.prem.my/demo/
Home page: https://heypn.com/ikomment/