Rahul Ramesh

This plugin will add a recent comments widget for Disqus, to your WordPress site. The widget will not impact your site loading time, as all the queries made to the 
Disqus Servers. The main features of the widget include: 
 – control avatar size. 
 – use circular avatars. 
 – control comment excerpt length. 
 – hide avatars 
 – hide comments made by moderators. 
 – control the number of comments. 
 – the widget will adapt to the parent style of most themes.
View the plugin website (http://worldanimeclub.com/blog/2014/06/03/disqus-recent-comments-widget-advanced/)

Disqus Recent Comments Widget Advanced

This plugin will add a recent comments widget for Disqus, to your WordPress site. The widget will not impact your site loading time, as all the querie …

With this plugin you can easily replace the standard WordPress commenting form with one of the popular commenting system’s widget, such as <a href="https://disqus.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Disqus</a> and <a href="https://www.hypercomments.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">HyperComments</a> or with the VKontakte comments widget.
<h4>Working with plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>After installation you should go to the plugin settings page in the Comments section and paste the comments widget into a single form field and then click Save Changes.</li>
<li>To get the widget code you will need to register at the appropriate commenting system’s website (or create a simple application for VKontakte).</li>
<li>You can add to the widget code any custom HTML markup.</li>
<li>Any custom text or HTML/JavaScript code will be displayed instead of the standard WordPress comments.</li>
<li>Just leave the field empty to hide the comments on all pages.</li>
</ul>

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