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Comments – EchoThread

Name: Comments – EchoThread
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: cigan1

A fast, privacy-first Disqus alternative for WordPress: threaded comments, reactions, and ML spam filtering. No ads, no tracking, no data resale.

Comments ranks #54,129 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, is #2,741 of 2,958 in the Discussion & Community category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Oct 24, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.5.2 Current Version v1.5.2

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 24 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.5.2
Last Updated: Oct 24, 2026
Requires WP: 5.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: cigan1

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Comments – EchoThread

Yes — create one free at echothread.io. The plugin needs your site's shortname and public API key.

Yes. The API key is a public, embeddable credential designed to live in page HTML. It only lets visitors load and post comments on your registered site; it cannot access or change your account.

No. The widget is under 65 KB gzipped, loads asynchronously from a CDN, and never blocks page rendering. The plugin adds no other assets.

Yes. Export your WordPress comments from Tools → Export (WXR), then import them in your EchoThread dashboard. Disqus XML exports are also supported.

No. The plugin adds no analytics, no cookies, and no third-party trackers.

The plugin is not the affected part. The flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) are in PHP itself, so what matters is the PHP your host runs. PHP released fixes in 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 on 21 October 2026. Check your version under Tools → Site Health → Info → Server and ask your host whether they have applied the update. The plugin still works on PHP 7.4 and later, but PHP 8.1 and older no longer get fixes from the PHP project, so move to 8.2 or newer where you can.

Set placement to Manual and add the [echothread] shortcode wherever you want the thread to appear.

Because WordPress stops counting once EchoThread hosts the comments — the number under a teaser comes from WordPress's own table, which nothing updates any more. A site that migrated from Disqus sees the count it had on the day it switched; a site that never used native comments sees zero. Turn on Archive comment counts in Settings → EchoThread Comments and those numbers come from EchoThread instead. It costs one request per page however many teasers are on it, and whatever your theme already prints stays exactly as it is if the request fails.

Yes — [echothread-count] inside the loop, or [echothread-count id="123"] for a specific post. Add text="Join the discussion" to choose what shows until the count arrives. The count follows your Language setting (or, on Auto, each visitor's browser), so it says "4 σχόλια" on a Greek site rather than "4 Comments". It also stays readable on dark themes: if the colour it would inherit against your background is unreadable, EchoThread repaints it with a readable one. Any colour you set yourself is never touched. Counts shown on links take the reader to the discussion: clicking one opens the post with the thread in view instead of at the top of the page. If your theme wraps its comment count in a link — even an old #comments one — that link now opens the thread directly, while a link that already aims somewhere specific is left alone.