by Kestrel 4.8 (16 reviews)

Better Recent Comments

Name: Better Recent Comments
Rating: 4.8 (16 reviews)
Author: Kestrel

Provides an improved Recent Comments widget and a shortcode to display your recent comments on any post or page.

Better Recent Comments ranks #4,463 among WordPress.org plugins with 2,000+ active installations, is #693 of 8,549 in the Customization category, a 4.8/5 rating from 16 reviews, and was last updated Mar 28, 2024. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.5.10 (Current: 7.1)

v1.2.0 Current Version v1.2.0

Updated 2 years ago Last Update on 28 Mar, 2024

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#693 of 8,549 in Customization Top 10% by installs No update in over a year

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Review 4.8 out of 5

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.2.0
Last Updated: Mar 28, 2024
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 6.5.10
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Kestrel

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 16
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want more control over how recent comments are displayed via widget or shortcode. It solves the default widget's limitations by adding customization options like avatars, excerpts, and language-aware filtering for multilingual sites.

Improved Recent Comments widget
Shortcode for displaying comments
Show actual comment text
Show avatars
Show or hide comment date
WPML compatibility
Filter comments by post type
Show or hide reply comments

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Better Recent Comments

To add the widget, go to Appearance -> Widgets, and find the 'Better Recent Comments' widget in the list, then drag to any widget area. You can then set the title for the widget, the number of comments to show, and choose to show or hide the comment avatars, dates, comment text and post link. If you would prefer to use the shortcode to set more specific options, add a Text widget to yout sidebar instead, and then add the [better_recent_comments] shortcode to your widget.

Add [better_recent_comments] to any post or page.

See the main plugin description for the list of shortcode options.

The format option allows you to choose the exact format you want for your recent comments. This option uses placeholders which are substituted with the actual data when the comments are displayed. The available placeholders are: {avatar}, {author}, {post}, {comment} and {date}. {avatar} is the comment author's Gravatar image. {author} is the comment author's name. {post} is the title of the post, and contains a link to the author's comment below the post. {comment} is the actual comment text. {date} is the comment date (see the date_format option in the main description to set the date format) Defaults to: {author} on {post}: "{comment}" {date}

There is no built-in option for this, but you can set the length of the comments by adding the following code to your site. In the code below change '10' to the number of words you would like. If you are using the [better_recent_comments] shortcode, make sure to add the excerpts="true" option. add_filter( 'comment_excerpt_length', function( $number_of_words ) { return 10; } );

Yes, please visit http://barn2.com/better-recent-comments-demo/ to see Better Recent Comments in action.

The plugin has been designed to work with different themes and will take the styling from your theme for the fonts etc. where possible.

Use the shortcode as follows: [better_recent_comments post_type="attachment" post_status="any"]

If you have a multilingual site using WPML then the plugin will display comments for the correct language automatically.

Unfortunately not. We've developed this free plugin to be flexible and easy to configure so that it will be suitable for as many different websites as possible.