Barn2 Plugins

Andy Keith

Kestrel

Amir Arabnezhad

<p>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.</p>
<p>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>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Translations currently provided in Spanish, French and Italian.</p>
<p>View the full <a href="https://barn2.com/kb-categories/better-recent-comments-kb/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> in our Knowledge Base.</p>
<p>Options available with the shortcode:</p>
<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.

Chouby

<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Imports languages and WPML options (when the same options exist in Polylang).</li>
<li>Imports posts and terms languages as well as translations (including for custom post types and custom taxonomies).</li>
<li>Imports multilingual nav menus.</li>
<li>Imports strings translations.</li>
<li>Does not delete WPML data.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Important</h4>
<p>Although WPML data should not be corrupted, as Polylang data are created without deleting anything, <strong>make a database backup before proceeding</strong>.</p>
<h4>How to proceed?</h4>
<ul>
<li>De-activate WPML</li>
<li>Activate Polylang or <a href="https://polylang.pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Polylang Pro</a> and WPML to Polylang. Do <strong>not</strong> create any language with Polylang (they will be imported).</li>
<li>Go to Tools -> WPML Importer.</li>
<li>If all checks are passed, then you can click on ‘Import’.</li>
<li>De-activate WPML to Polylang (You can even delete it).</li>
<li>Setup a language switcher either as a widget or in nav menus.</li>
<li>Check that everything is OK.</li>
<li>If something went wrong and you want to revert to WPML, you can delete Polylang using the red link in the Plugins table. To delete all data created for Polylang, Please read <a href="https://polylang.pro/doc/how-to-uninstall-polylang/" rel="nofollow ugc">how</a> <strong>before</strong> deleting Polylang. Finally you can re-activate WPML.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Notes</h4>
<p>This plugin does not include error management. It has however been tested successfully to migrate a site with about 9,000 posts and media.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>The banner and icon were designed by <a href="http://www.alexlopez.rocks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Alex Lopez</a></p>


WPML to Polylang

Great!

it saved me some time moving my translated pages to polylang as WPML slows down my site

Does what it says

Thank you for the plugin. Migrated from WPML to Polylang with a few clicks.

Works great.

Import multilingual data from WPML into Polylang.

Better Recent Comments vs WPML to Polylang