darrinb

This recent comments widget provides advanced widget features for displaying comment author avatars and an excerpt of their comment.
Features
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<li>Select which post types to show comments for. (You can choose either all types, or a specific type.)</li>
<li>Exclude pingbacks and trackbacks.</li>
<li>Set the number of comments to show.</li>
<li>Set the order for displaying the comments.</li>
<li>Show comment author avatar.</li>
<li>Set and preview avatar size.</li>
<li>Show an excerpt of the comment.</li>
<li>Determine the length of the excerpt.</li>
<li>Select the comment list format to match your site’s markup. Choose from: <code>ol</code>, <code>ul</code>, or <code>div</code>.</li>
<li>Select the comment format. Choose between <code>html5</code> or <code>xhtml</code>.</li>
<li>Create multiple comment lists with different settings.</li>
</ul>
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!
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<li>Need to remove a field from the widget form? Not a problem! Every field is passed through its own filter for easy customization.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>For a full list of action hooks and filters, please see the plugin documentation: http://darrinb.com/plugins/advanced-comments-widget</li>
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Advanced Comments Widget

A highly customizable recent comments widget with avatars and excerpts.

itthinx

Decent Comments shows what people say.
The Decent Comments plugin helps you show comments on your site in a neat way. It lets you display comments along with avatars of the people who wrote them and previews of what they said. This makes your site more engaging for visitors.
If you want to show comments along with their author’s avatars and an excerpt of their comment, recent comments on any of your posts, posts from certain categories and other criteria … then this might just be the right plugin for you.
The plugin provides configurable blocks, widgets, shortcodes and an API to display comments in sensible ways. This includes author avatars, links, comment excerpts …
Anywhere you place comments, by means of its block, widget, shortcode or by using its API, you can:
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<li>Show an excerpt or the full comment. You can choose to not show the comment as well.</li>
<li>Determine the number of words shown for excerpts.</li>
<li>Set your kind of ellipsis.</li>
<li>Set the number of comments to show.</li>
<li>Show the author’s avatar and determine its size.</li>
<li>Sort by author email, author URL, content (what’s said in the comment), date, karma or post … in ascending or descending order.</li>
<li>Show comments for the current post or for a specific post.</li>
<li>Show comments for a specific post type.</li>
<li>Show comments for posts in specific categories, for specific tags, … (more precisely: the ability to show comments from posts related to one or more terms in a chosen taxonomy).</li>
<li>Show comments for a set of posts and/or excluding a set of posts.</li>
<li>and more to come … got suggestions?</li>
</ul>
Visit the <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com/document/decent-comments" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> pages for details.
Feedback is welcome. If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/decent-comments" rel="nofollow ugc">Decent Comments</a> plugin page.
Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks!
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Translations
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<li>Catalan translation provided by <a href="https://www.ibidemgroup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Group</a></li>
<li>Chinese translation provided by Francesco from <a href="https://www.in-cina.com" rel="nofollow ugc">in Cina</a></li>
<li>French translation provided by Thomas Mur from <a href="https://www.creapage.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Creapage.net</a></li>
<li>German translation provided by the author <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a></li>
<li>Italian translation provided by Francesco from <a href="https://www.in-cina.com" rel="nofollow ugc">in Cina</a></li>
<li>Lithuanian translation provided by Vincent G from <a href="https://www.Host1Free.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Host1Free</a></li>
<li>Portuguese translation provided by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/topcasinowagering" rel="ugc">TopCasinoWagering</a></li>
<li>Russion translation provided by <a href="https://arahis.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Igor</a></li>
<li>Spanish translation provided by <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a> and <a href="https://www.ibidem-translations.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Translations</a></li>
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Many thanks!

Decent Comments

Thank you

Decent Comments shows what people say. A more engaging way to show comments.

Advanced Comments Widget vs Decent Comments