Rating: 3 stars
The author gave a solution ( unrelated to the plugin ) to modify the comment excerpt length (*) ALL ACROSS YOUR SITE ?? , which is not really a solution, is extremely invasive and certainly not wanted by anyone looking to build a coherent user experience on their site.
Users should be able to set different excerpt lengths for each shortcode, that’s the bare minimum for any comment plugin. ( e.g. 10 words on “homepage” excerpts, 20 words on “profile page”, no limit on “all recent comments” page ).
Something like that.
A similar plugin : WordPress comment plus does that, but your plugin is better in terms of styling, so I’ll just have to deal with that shitty excerpt handicap for the time being.
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add_filter( ‘comment_excerpt_length’, function( $number_of_words ) {
return 50;
} );
Rating: 5 stars
Looks perfect! Much better than the in-built WordPress widget. Well done!
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Although there are many ways to put a ‘recent column’ widget in your sidebar, this is the best. Easy to customize (read the docs for shortcode parameters), and insert a block that contains the shortcode with all of your desired options. Add a ‘<h3 class=widget-title>Recent Comments</h3>’ just above the shortcode to put a heading.
Great stuff !
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Beautiful and simple.
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I used the default Recent Comments plugin and was dismayed by how ugly and uninformative it was. It doesn’t show the comments!
Better Recent Comments shows a nice avatar AND the actual comment. Perfect.
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I have been using the plugin for more than two years, installed it on two sites – it works perfectly! A huge number of output options, in addition, there is a widget and a shortcode. Thank you very much to the developer for his great work!
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Great plugin, works flawlessly, and very easy to use. The comments now appear nicely on my site. My only wish is to be able to hide site owner / admin’s comments. Thanks!
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This is the only one out of 3 advanced recent comments widget plugins I’ve tested that didn’t work at all in Oxygen builder. Throws out an error message about not being registered with the WordPress installation.
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Perfect widget, THE ONLY ABLE TO SHOW LAST COMMENTS ON MEDIAS for now.
Thank you to their Support, kind and powerfull !
Rating: 5 stars
Great plugin! I also appreciated the quick response time on the support forum and help with custom code to achieve what I was trying to do.
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Recent comments look better. Five stars.
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It really is better. I love it when people share their small code bits like this. Good work!
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The plugin out of the box may not be exactly what is wanted, but it is highly customizable. The instructions on the plugin page are not fool-proof (in particular: the instruction for how to use the short code on the widget page is missing: place the short code in a widget text), but support on the WP forum was very good and very prompt.
Control freaks will also want to play with the css a bit, but that is to be expected. It would be nice to see the tags listed on the Plugin Page for easier css manipulation.
Note that while “format” is the most important point on “Options available with the shortcode”, it is listed second rather than first in the options. Also, there are no coding examples on how to use the short code to modify the output.
The default format is: [better_recent_comments format="{author} on {post}: “{comment}” {date}"
Because I wanted to display a different date format, the shortcode that I chose to enter into the widget text is: [better_recent_comments format="{author} on {post}, {date}" date_format="l, j F Y"] )
If it weren’t for the slightly confusing instructions, I’d give this plugin 5 stars. If half stars were available, I’d give it 4.5….
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good job!
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One of the more handsome comments sidebar widgets.
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It wors just like I need
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Thanks!
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