by Scott Reilly 5 (2 reviews)

Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments

Name: Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
Author: Scott Reilly

Enables in-place expansion of excerpts in the admin dashboard 'Comments' section of the 'Activity' widget to view full comments.

Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments ranks #23,527 among WordPress.org plugins with 30+ active installations, is #919 of 2,893 in the Discussion & Community category, a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Apr 16, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1.2)

v3.0.1 Current Version v3.0.1

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 16 Apr, 2025

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#919 of 2,893 in Discussion & Community Top 50% by installs No update in over a year

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.0.1
Last Updated: Apr 16, 2025
Requires WP: 4.6+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Scott Reilly

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Reviews: 2
Support Threads: 0
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments

When you hover over the comment, a line of action links will appear (typically "Approve", "Reply", "Edit", "Spam", and "Trash"). If the comment has been automatically excerpted by WordPress, then a "Show more" link will appear. Click it to view the full comment.

The comment has not been been excerpted; you are already seeing the comment in its entirety so there is no need to be able to "show more".

Assuming you are using a supported version of WordPress and you have JavaScript enabled in your browser, this just means that none of the comments being listed have been excerpted, thus there is no need to be able to "Expand all" or "Collapse all" in this instance.

If all of the comments in the widget are currently collapsed, then the "Collapse all" link will appear grayed out to indicate there is nothing for it to collapse. Likewise, if all of the comments in the widget are currently expanded, then "Expand all" will appear grayed out to indicate there is nothing for it to expand. As comments are expanded and collapsed, these two links will adjust themselves to appear grayed out or active as appropriate.

Yes. Please see the "Hooks" section for documentation on the c2c_expandable_dashboard_recent_comments_start_expanded filter which allows for this.

If JavaScript is disabled in a visitor's browser, then all of the expand/collapse links and behavior aren't enabled. But rest assured, there aren't any errors. Why not implement a fallback if JS is disabled? If you're going to click a link that causes a page reload to view the full comment, you might as well just click through to the comment.

Yes. The tests are not packaged in the release .zip file or included in plugins.svn.wordpress.org, but can be found in the plugin's GitHub repository.