Advanced Comments Widget

This recent comments widget provides advanced widget features for displaying comment author avatars and an excerpt of their comment.
Features
- Select which post types to show comments for. (You can choose either all types, or a specific type.)
- Exclude pingbacks and trackbacks.
- Set the number of comments to show.
- Set the order for displaying the comments.
- Show comment author avatar.
- Set and preview avatar size.
- Show an excerpt of the comment.
- Determine the length of the excerpt.
- Select the comment list format to match your site’s markup. Choose from:
ol,ul, ordiv. - Select the comment format. Choose between
html5orxhtml. - Create multiple comment lists with different settings.
Developer Features
This widget was built not only with end-users in mind, but also plugin developers. Almost every aspect of this widget is extensible through filters and action hooks. You can even add your own form fields to the widget form!
- Need to remove a field from the widget form? Not a problem! Every field is passed through its own filter for easy customization.
- Need to modify the output of the widget? Easy! The output is passed through numerous filters, allowing you to customize the comment list to meet your project’s requirements.
- For a full list of action hooks and filters, please see the plugin documentation: http://darrinb.com/plugins/advanced-comments-widget
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
- Give a name to your project
- Download the Installer Package
- Install & activate the plugin locally
- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.



