Barn2 Plugins

Andy Keith

Kestrel

Amir Arabnezhad

The default Recent Comments widget is somewhat limited. Better Recent Comments improves on this by providing a more flexible widget with options to show the user’s actual comment, as well as show avatars and the ability to show or hide the comment date.
As well as the widget, there’s a handy shortcode you can use to display your recent comments. This is useful if you need to display comments somewhere other than your sidebar or footer, such as on your homepage. Simply add the shortcode <code>[better_recent_comments]</code>.
That’s not all! The plugin is also WPML compatible, which means that the comments will be restricted to those in the current language. The default WordPress widget will list all recent comments, regardless of language, so you might end up with comments for German-language posts in the sidebar of your English site. Better Recent Comments solves this and makes sure the comments are for the current language only.
Translations currently provided in Spanish, French and Italian.
View the full <a href="https://barn2.com/kb-categories/better-recent-comments-kb/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> in our Knowledge Base.
Options available with the shortcode:
<ul>
<li><code>format</code> – the format of each recent comment. This option uses ‘placeholders’ which are substituted with the actual data when the comments are displayed. See the FAQs for details.</li>
<li><code>number</code> – the number of comments to display. Default: 5 comments</li>
<li><code>date_format</code> – the date and time format to use. Like WordPress, this uses a PHP date format. It defaults to ‘M j, H:i’. See <a href="https://barn2.com/PHP-Date-Format.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">this cheat sheet</a> for a full list of date and time options.</li>
<li><code>avatar_size</code> – the size of the avatar in pixels. Only used if you have included {avatar} in your comment format (see ‘format’ option). Default: 50</li>
<li><code>post_status</code> – the status of posts to retrieve comments for. Defaults to ‘publish’. Can be a single status or a comma-separated list, or ‘any’ to show comments for all post statuses.</li>
<li><code>post_type</code> – the post type to retrieve comments for. Accepts a single or multiple post types (e.g. ‘post’ or ‘post, dlp_document’) or ‘any’ to show comments for all post types. Default: ‘any’</li>
<li><code>excerpts</code> – set to ‘true’ to show an excerpt of the comment (limited to 20 words), or ‘false’ to show the full comment. Default: true</li>
<li><code>replies</code> – set to ‘true’ to also show responses to comments, or ‘false’ to only see the top level comments. Default: true</li>
</ul>

Better Recent Comments

Great plugin, works flawlessly, and very easy to use. The comments now appear nicely on my site. My only wish is to be able to hide site owner / admin's comments. Thanks!

Excellent

I used the default Recent Comments plugin and was dismayed by how ugly and uninformative it was. It doesn't show the comments!

Better Recent Comments shows a nice avatar AND the actual comment.  Perfect.

Very happy with it

Although there are many ways to put a 'recent column' widget in your sidebar, this is the best. Easy to customize (read the docs for shortcode parameters), and insert a block that contains the shortcode with all of your desired options. Add a '<h3 class=widget-title>Recent Comments</h3>' just above the shortcode to put a heading.

Great stuff !

Great - Better than Writing Your Own

Provides an improved Recent Comments widget and a shortcode to display your recent comments on any post or page.

Marcus (aka @msykes)

Pixelite

Marcus

This plugin helps make <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/" rel="ugc">Events Manager</a> and <a href="http://wpml.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a> work better together by allowing translation of all event-related features:
** Version 2.0 is a major revamp that fixes all known issues, nuances and limitiation. 2.0 enables full compatiblity with <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/" rel="ugc">Events Manager</a> and <a href="https://eventsmanagerpro.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Events Manager Pro Add-ons</a> **
<ul>
<li>Detects translated pages of specific EM pages (assigned in Events > Settings > Pages) and displays relevant language content</li>
<li>Searching locations and events within the context of the current language being viewed.</li>
<li>Recurring events can be created in multiple languages, recurrence translations are correctly created.</li>
<li>Event translations will share relevant information across all translations, including
<ul>
<li>Event Times</li>
<li>Location Information</li>
<li>If translations for the location exist, translated events will show/link to location of the same language, if not the original location translation.</li>
<li>Bookings and Booking Forms</li>
<li>If you delete an event that is the originally translated event, booking and other meta info is transferred to default language or next available language translation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Location address information can be translated, whilst sharing coordinate, country/zip information accross translations.</li>
<li>Event-related text can be translated for each language including:
<ul>
<li>Custom texts, emails templates and formats on the settings page.</li>
<li>Booking and attendee custom forms (available in Pro)</li>
<li>Custom event and gateway emails (available in Pro)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>MultiSite cross-site support, including showing events from other blogs in your network when EM Global Tables Mode is enabled.</li>
<li>Displaying untranslated items in lists or hiding them, according to WPML settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Special Installation Steps</h4>
Please ensure that WPML 4.2 and EM 5.6.7 or higher are installed BEFORE updating or activating this plugin.
When setting up EM and WPML, you should create translated versions of the event, location, category, tag, etc. pages assigned in Events > Settings > Pages of your admin area. Duplicating them using WPML is enough.
Given the flexibiltiy of both plugins, there is an huge number of possible setting/language combinations to test, and despite our rigorous testing it is impossible to test every setting combination and scenario. To the best of our knowledge, we have achieved 100% compatibility, but should you come across on your setup and we’ll do our best to fix them as time permits.

Events Manager and WPML Compatibility

If you have WPML and use Events Manager, this is a must. Works perfect. There are some (very few) parts that are not translatable yet, but 95% of the strings are translatable.

Must-have

Integrates the Events Manager and WPML plugins together to provide a smoother multilingual experience (Requires Events Manager and WPML)

Better Recent Comments vs Events Manager and WPML Compatibility