Filter recent comments by post category

Hi ostii,

Thanks for your message. No, unfortunately you can’t restrict the comments by category. WordPress has a really poor mechanism for fetching comments, which we’re kind of stuck with in the plugin. You can restrict the comments to individual posts using a code snippet (let me know if you’re interested) but not by category.

Andy

Hi Andy, thanks for your prompt reply.
Yes please, I’d love the codes snippet to restrict comments to individual posts.

Yeah no problem. I’ve just added a page to our Knowledge Base to show how to do this: https://barn2.com/kb/displaying-comments-for-specific-posts/

Thanks @andykeith
Is there by any chance a code snippet to show posts in a specific category?

Also, is there a way to have one page on the website show comments from selected posts (or a category) of posts and another page show other comments from other selected posts (or a category) of posts?

Our Challenge is that we’re running courses and we want a recent comments thread just for the people within a particular course.

Hi,

No, as I mentioned earlier there isn’t an option in the plugin to retrieve comments for posts in a given category. WordPress doesn’t offer a way to do this (not a direct way anyway), so to achieve that you would need some custom development.

The code snippet I sent above can be used to display comments from selected posts, and you can display comments on any page using the [better_recent_comments] shortcode (see the plugin description for more info on this).