Recent Comments Widget with Comment Excerpts

Changelog

1.0.2

  • [Fixed] Escapes strings before output in HTML.
  • [Changed] Changes tested up to version to 7.0.

1.0.1

  • [Changed] Changes tested up to version to 6.4.1.

1.0.0

  • [Added] Adds a text domain and makes all strings translatable
  • [Added] Adds a setting to modify the character length of the comment excerpt
  • [Added] Adds a license declaration to confirm this is GPLv2 code
  • [Changed] Changes tested up to version number to 5.8.3
  • [Changed] Changes the version number to use semantic versioning
  • [Changed] Changes the plugin URI to point to the Github repo where I am now maintaining this plugin
  • [Removed] Removes inline CSS to best play nice with users’ sites

0.121230

Wrapped the author name with an HTML span to allow CSS to target only the author name.

0.111019

Massage the comment data with strip_tags, apply_filters and mb_substr for international characters/unicode

0.110111

Stop showing ellipsis if the comment length is not long enough to be trimmed by the widget

0.101109

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Version:
1.0.2
Last Updated
June 26, 2026
Active Installs
100
Requires
WordPress 2.8
Tested Up To
WordPress 7.0

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