This plugin extends the wire with pro features ! Note: Pull request and issues are welcomed on GitHub (https://github.com/physcocode/the-wire-pro) . If you reach the repository please leave a star :) 

NOTE: AS OF v1.2 THIS PLUGIN EXTEND THE WIRE ! YOU NEED TO HAVE THE WIRE ENABLED FOR THIS PLUGIN TO WORK

The Wire Pro brings in following improvements over normal "the wire" :

1.  Ability to  comment 
2. automatically convert text like :) into emoji 
3. Rename “The wire” to whatever you want .
4.  Automatically embed URLs using oEmbed ( works with YouTube , Facebook , Twitter and many more ) 
5. Domains to be embedded can be whitelisted from settings 
6. All features can be turned ON or OFF from settings 
7. This can be used as normal the wire and is compatible with all plugins that are designed to extend the wire 

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Release notes :

v1.3 

1. Comment have been completely re-written to use Elgg's built in comment system
2. Only top 3 comments are shown in feed with option to view more
3. Comments can now be liked/deleted/edited
4. Lots of improvement on embedding links (dependency is updated from embed to embera)

v1.2

1. This plugin now extends the wire and do not replace it ! [Thanks to @rjcalifornia and @blue for bringing compatibility issue to my notice]

 v1.1

1. Added timestamp to comments

  v1.0

1. The GUI of 'comment' have been completely modernised ! 
2. Various bug fixes

 v0.5 & 0.6

1. You can now rename 'the wire' from plugin settings
2. Comments like view can now be disabled from plugin settings
3. Added support to whitelist oembed provider from plugin settings
4. Few GUI improvements and tweaks
5. ​You can now change 'What's happening ?' placeholder message from plugin settings

 v0.3

1. "the wire" replies are now shown as comments under the post
2. Added ability to reply from the post itself
3. ​Replies are not shown as separate "the wire" posts
4. Tweaked GUI to make comments resemble more like Facebook comment

  v0.1 & v0.2

1. Text are automatically converted to emoji 
2. Links are automatically embedded using oEmbed supports (YouTube, twitter, Facebook and much more..)
3. Card based design with actions at footer, makes it look much closer to the other social media 
4. Few tweaks and improvement to original wire .

NOTE : if you are using 'comments' feature please update to the latest version that fixed few bugs that were introduced in version 0.6

​Your suggestions are welcomed , please leave a comment if you want to see a feature on this plugin or if you have any suggestion !