Due to the unresponsiveness of the original developer, I’ve created a fork of the plugin, mostly focused on adding quality of life improvements for theme developers and fixing bugs.

It is currently not available from the WordPress plugin directory, and is developed in the open in Github: https://github.com/guss77/wordpress-vertical-scroll-recent-comments

To update your current installation to the fork, just download a ZIP file and replace the content of the vertical-scroll-recent-comments plugin directory with the files from the ZIP archive.

The current “stable” version that I recommend installing is the filter feature branch, which you can find in the release list here: https://github.com/guss77/wordpress-vertical-scroll-recent-comments/releases

I’m working on additional development, currently around modernizing the code base, which you can find in this branch: https://github.com/guss77/wordpress-vertical-scroll-recent-comments/tree/feature/modernization , but additional feature work is planned including pause/resume of scrolling automatically. Please use the Github project “issues” feature to suggest new work.

I will also monitor this support forum and try to help where I can, but if you have issues with my fork – please report them in the Github issues.

I’m taking this work because I need to support a website that uses this plugin, and the plugin is mostly good work (and not that complicated), but I need additional features and I am willing to make the work but after 3 months of trying to create communication channel with the plugin developer, I gave up and created the fork. If the plugin owner – Gopi Ramasamy – will cooperate on adding new features and fixing bugs, I will gladly merge my changes back to the original plugin.

Best regards.

The plugin works nice and all but it has severe problems with showing up basic UTF8 characters correctly. For example, I have a comment which begins like this:
“I agree with this story I think its 100% correct”

And its being shown in the plugin widget as this:
“I agree with this story I think its 100{3b7c44a0878c9f87f257a98dd7e525c5edbf5fdcd7cdea06f58c5680ef91e885} correct.”

And every time I refresh the page, it shows a different random gibberish text:
I agree with this story I think its 100{e8872bbc6ca28a4fdd32525c1e5fec332a075236e468b7b343d6a1e7caab3ad3} correct.

And I think other symbols are having the same problem, please correct this issue immediately.

This plugin is no longer working correctly and no response from admin for 5 months.

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This plugin stopped working with new WordPress update. Needs a fix.

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It suddenly stopped working. Need an update.

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I got this widget and think its amazing, but can’t figure out how to put it on my home page. I have it on all my other pages, but can’t figure out how to put it on the home page. Please help.

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Any suggestions for how to remove the comments from the post author from the scrolling comments display?

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Hi,

is there any way to show the post title where the comment has been made?

Thanks in advance,
Laura

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There needs to be a way to filter out pingbacks and trackbacks! No one wants to see these, they look unprofessional and crowd out the actual comments.

Switching to another recent comments plugin, hope this one will get an update to address this or post a response with a fix because the scroll option is awesome.

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Hi
I want to display the post title and then the comment. What code do I need and where do I change it.

Thanks

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Hello..
I use your plugin to my two websites. In first website, it works well. But, in the my another website, it doesn’t work. It stops. I don’t know why. I use the same configuration.
Could you please help me?

Thanks.

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The plugin is great and solves my purpose. There is only one tweak that I need.. that is I do not want the scroll to be linked to the page… that is when the text in the scroll is clicked nothing should happen….is it possible?

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Hello,
great plugin: simple but extremely useful!

I would like just one more feature: scroll time interval settings.

but for the moment I just would like to ask how to change it manually. I would like it to be slower.

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Please update plugin

Thanks ??

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