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.

JS Morisset

Google Merchant product and inventory feed XML for WooCommerce and custom product pages, including multilingual support.
E-Commerce Plugin Optional:
WooCommerce is suggested but not required – the WPSSO Google Merchant Feed XML add-on can also use product information from custom product pages.
Complete WooCommerce Support:
WooCommerce simple products, product variations, product attributes, product meta data, and custom fields are all fully supported.

Automatic Multilingual Support:
The Google merchant product feed XMLs are automatically created in your site’s language(s) from Polylang, qTranslate-XT, WPML, or the installed WordPress languages.
After activating the WPSSO Google Merchant Feed XML add-on, see the SSO > Google Merchant settings page for your feed URLs.
Google Merchant Feed XML Attributes:
<ul>
<li>Additional image link <code>&#91;additional_image_link&#93;</code></li>
<li>Adult oriented <code>&#91;adult&#93;</code></li>
<li>Age group <code>&#91;age_group&#93;</code></li>
<li>Availability <code>&#91;availability&#93;</code></li>
<li>Brand <code>&#91;brand&#93;</code></li>
<li>Condition <code>&#91;condition&#93;</code></li>
<li>Color <code>&#91;color&#93;</code></li>
<li>Description <code>&#91;description&#93;</code></li>
<li>Energy efficiency class <code>&#91;energy_efficiency_class&#93;</code></li>
<li>Gender <code>&#91;gender&#93;</code></li>
<li>Google product category <code>&#91;google_product_category&#93;</code></li>
<li>Google search index <code>&#91;canonical_link&#93;</code></li>
<li>GTIN <code>&#91;gtin&#93;</code> (inluding UPC, EAN, and ISBN)</li>
<li>Image link <code>&#91;image_link&#93;</code></li>
<li>Item group ID <code>&#91;item_group_id&#93;</code></li>
<li>Link <code>&#91;link&#93;</code></li>
<li>Material <code>&#91;material&#93;</code></li>
<li>Maximum energy efficiency class <code>&#91;max_energy_efficiency_class&#93;</code></li>
<li>Minimum energy efficiency class <code>&#91;min_energy_efficiency_class&#93;</code></li>
<li>MPN <code>&#91;mpn&#93;</code></li>
<li>Pattern <code>&#91;pattern&#93;</code></li>
<li>Price <code>&#91;price&#93;</code></li>
<li>Product ID <code>&#91;id&#93;</code></li>
<li>Product length <code>&#91;product_length&#93;</code></li>
<li>Product height <code>&#91;product_height&#93;</code></li>
<li>Product type <code>&#91;product_type&#93;</code></li>
<li>Product weight <code>&#91;product_weight&#93;</code></li>
<li>Product width <code>&#91;product_width&#93;</code></li>
<li>Sale price <code>&#91;sale_price&#93;</code></li>
<li>Sale price effective date <code>&#91;sale_price_effective_date&#93;</code></li>
<li>Shipping <code>&#91;shipping&#93;</code>
<ul>
<li>Country <code>&#91;country&#93;</code></li>
<li>Location group name <code>&#91;location_group_name&#93;</code></li>
<li>Postal code <code>&#91;postal_code&#93;</code></li>
<li>Price <code>&#91;price&#93;</code></li>
<li>Region <code>&#91;region&#93;</code></li>
<li>Service <code>&#91;service&#93;</code></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso-wc-shipping-delivery-time/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Schema Shipping Delivery Time for WooCommerce</a> add-on required for handling and transit times:
<ul>
<li>Maximum handling time <code>&#91;max_handling_time&#93;</code></li>
<li>Minimum handling time <code>&#91;min_handling_time&#93;</code></li>
<li>Maximum transit time <code>&#91;max_transit_time&#93;</code></li>
<li>Minimum transit time <code>&#91;min_transit_time&#93;</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Shipping length <code>&#91;shipping_length&#93;</code></li>
<li>Shipping height <code>&#91;shipping_height&#93;</code></li>
<li>Shipping weight <code>&#91;shipping_weight&#93;</code></li>
<li>Shipping width <code>&#91;shipping_width&#93;</code></li>
<li>Size <code>&#91;size&#93;</code></li>
<li>Size system <code>&#91;size_system&#93;</code></li>
<li>Size type <code>&#91;size_type&#93;</code></li>
<li>Title <code>&#91;title&#93;</code></li>
</ul>
Google Merchant Inventory XML Attributes:
<ul>
<li>GTIN <code>&#91;gtin&#93;</code></li>
<li>Merchant ID <code>&#91;target_customer_id&#93;</code></li>
<li>Price <code>&#91;price&#93;</code></li>
<li>Product ID <code>&#91;id&#93;</code></li>
<li>Quantity <code>&#91;quantity&#93;</code></li>
<li>Store code <code>&#91;store_code&#93;</code></li>
<li>Timestamp <code>&#91;timestamp&#93;</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>WPSSO Core Required</h3>
WPSSO Google Merchant Feed XML is an add-on for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso/" rel="ugc">WPSSO Core plugin</a>, which creates extensive and complete structured data to present your content at its best for social sites and search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

WPSSO Google Merchant Feed XML

Google Merchant product and inventory feed XML for WooCommerce and custom product pages, including multilingual support.

Better Recent Comments vs WPSSO Google Merchant Feed XML