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Recent Comments Widget Plus

Description

This plugin will enable a custom and advanced recent comments widget. Allows you to display a list of the most recent comments with avatar and excerpt, you can also choose which to show newer comments first or older comments first and choose comments from any post type.

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Features Include

  • Display avatar with customizable size.
  • Display comment excerpt with customizable length.
  • Exclude pingback & trackback
  • Post type option.
  • Offset option.
  • Option to choose the comments order.
  • Allows you to set title url.
  • Custom CSS class.
  • Multiple widgets.

Links

Screenshots

  • Widgets output

Installation

Through Dashboard

  1. Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins -> Add New
  2. Type comments widget plus in the search box and click on search button.
  3. Find Comments Widget Plus plugin.
  4. Then click on Install Now after that activate the plugin.
  5. Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
  6. Find Recent Comments Plus widget.

Installing Via FTP

  1. Download the plugin to your hardisk.
  2. Unzip.
  3. Upload the comments-widget-plus folder into your plugins directory.
  4. Log in to your WordPress admin panel and click the Plugins menu.
  5. Then activate the plugin.
  6. Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
  7. Find Recent Comments Plus widget.

FAQ

How to disable default style

This plugin add a small css code to your website, to remove it please add the code below in your theme functions.php

add_filter( 'cwp_use_default_style', '__return_false' );

Widget does not update with last comments

If you use cache plugin, please try to clear the cache or re-save the widget.

Reviews

15 September 2020
plugin se kterým jsem byl dosud velmi spokojen “Get Recent Comments” přestal s novou aktualizací WP pracovat, tak jsem musel hledat jiný. Tento je také jednoduchý, intuitivní, ale pro ne-anglické weby je nešikovné, že do textu píše anglické slovo “ON” (opravil jsem – comments-widget-plus/includes/functions.php:71) ve zdroji, ale po aktualizaci zase určitě bude anglicky.
28 December 2019
Great plugin, with a several options to help show recent comments on widget. Works well (no php notices, php errors, etc.).
20 October 2019
this plugin is Excellent and has many useful options. i hope an option be added to be able to exclude some people’s comments from widget. thanks
28 September 2019
Could use an option to limit how many characters should be shown in title. I have a lot of titles that are very long and it just looks weird. So for example if you could shorten “This is a very long title of a post that I made” to “This is a very…” Otherwise, it looks really good and works as intended.
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Contributors and Developers

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Change Log

1.3

  • Enchancement: Code refactor to follow latest WordPress coding standard.

1.2.0

  • Support new Widget block.