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.  
8. Converts #tags and @mentions to links

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Latest Release notes :

v1.6

1. Fixes multiple issues with 4.x egg releases , have been tested on 4.3
2. Internal rework to support future versions of elgg

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]