Sterling Adventures

This plug-in provides a configurable widget to display recent comments with comment author avatars.

I’m quite pleased with the plug-in, I hope you are too.
It makes an ideal companion to my other avatar plug-in.

The plug-in is available as a download here.

All I ask is that you credit the plug-in (i.e. include a link to this page or maybe add a link to your WordPress Blogroll).

Why not check out my other WordPress plugins too!

Thanks!

Instructions:

• Put the complete plug-in folder into your WordPress plug-in directory (if this doesn’t make sense it probably isn’t something you should be trying ) and activate it.
• Go to your Appearance » Widgets page and include Recent Comments in your sidebar.
• Once the widget is added to your sidebar you may easily configure it to provide a display of recent comments with comment author avatars. The options are:
  • The title of the widget.
  • Limit the number of comments to shown (1 to 15).
  • Opt to display the avatar of the comment author, or not.
  • Set the size of the avatar.
  • Chose to have the comment author’s URL (if given) open in a new window,
  • Show the date of the comment, or not.
  • Set the format of the date.
  • Set the size of the date string (as a fraction of the normal text size).
• The style of the output may be controlled with simple CSS rules that need to be included in your styles.css template file.
  • The container (i.e. <ul> or <table>) has the id recentcomments (use CSS .recentcomments).
  • List items (i.e. <li>) have the class recentcomments (use CSS #recentcomments).

With great regret comments are closed on this post as I’m being deluged with queries that often boil down to “how to” requests and not issues with the plug-in, which works perfectly! So, if you want support, even advice, use the Feedback link and ask away…

But please note I may have to ask for a donation before I’ll look at “how to” questions…

Version History:

• 3.5 – Add option to exclude comments from scheduled posts.
• 3.4 – Tidy up IP lookup.
• 3.3 – Fix printf of comment time.
• 3.2 – Don’t allow flag options if no database table.
• 3.1 – Comment list flags; start or end option.
• 3.0 – Indicate country of posting (via IP address) with small flag icon.
• 2.1 – Convert smilies.
• 2.0 – Added option for showing a comment excerpt, thanks to Angelo Milanetti for the idea.
• 1.0 – Initial version.