Scott Reilly

By default, the ‘Comments’ section of the ‘Activity’ admin dashboard widget only shows an excerpt for the comments, truncating the content of the comments to the first 20 words while at the same time stripping out all markup.
This plugin adds a link at the end of the comment actions row (the links for the comment that become visible under the comment when you hover over the comment). The “Show more” link, when clicked, will replace the excerpt with the full comment. The full comment will include all markup, including originally utilized markup and changes applied via filters, plugins, etc (such as shortcode expansion, smilies, paragraphing, etc). The full comment can be switched back to the excerpt by clicking the “Show less” link (which replaces the “Show more” link when the comment is expanded).
“In-place expansion” refers to the ability to click the link to see the full comment and it will be presented in place of the excerpt without requiring a page reload or navigation.
NOTE: This plugin only works for users who have JavaScript enabled.
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/expandable-dashboard-recent-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/expandable-dashboard-recent-comments/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/expandable-dashboard-recent-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>
<h3>Hooks</h3>
The plugin exposes one filter for hooking. Such code should ideally be put into a mu-plugin or site-specific plugin (which is beyond the scope of this readme to explain).
c2c_expandable_dashboard_recent_comments_start_expanded (filter)
The ‘c2c_expandable_dashboard_recent_comments_start_expanded’ hook allows you to configure the ‘Recent Comments’ admin dashboard widget initially display all comments in their expanded state (i.e. not excerpted).
Arguments:
<ul>
<li>$default (boolean): The default state, which is ‘false’ (therefore comments are initially shown excerpted)</li>
<li>$comment (object) : The comment object being displayed</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>// Initially show dashboard comments fully expanded
add_filter( 'c2c_expandable_dashboard_recent_comments_start_expanded', '__return_true' );
</code></pre>

Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments

Very Cool

Enables in-place expansion of excerpts in the admin dashboard 'Comments' section of the 'Activity' widget to view full comments.

Khang Minh

This plugin displays recent comment lists at assigned locations. It does not add any significant load to your website. The comment list is updated on the fly when a visitor adds a comment or when you moderate one. No additional queries are needed for end-users.
A recent comment list, in my opinion, can help stimulate discussion and exploration of your blog tremendously. Now for the past few months I have been using a plugin called Get Recent Comments; though this plugin is configurable and indeed popular, the code is somehow messy and no support for custom post type is found. The worst thing is Get Recent Comment doesn’t seem to be updated anymore, so I decide to write another recent comment plugin which is more lightweight and makes use of some nice features provided by WordPress 3.0.
Powerup your recent comment list today!
<ul>
<li>Group comments by post (inspired by the classic Get Recent Comments plugin).</li>
<li>AJAX navigation for any recent comment list you want!</li>
<li>Has the options to show comment only, trackback only, or show both (separately or all together)</li>
<li>Get comments from a specific post, using either ID or post name (slug).</li>
<li>Possibility to add different comment lists with different settings on one page</li>
<li>You can show comments on a separate page, with pagination and custom template!</li>
<li>You can sort comment lists descendingly or ascendingly</li>
<li>Supports custom post type</li>
<li>Supports Gravatar</li>
<li>Supports smiley</li>
<li>Widget-ready</li>
<li>Template functions ready</li>
<li>Generate Zero SQL query for end-users</li>
<li>Possibility to trim post title to a certain number of words.</li>
<li>Possibility to trim comment to a specific number of words</li>
<li>Possibility to split long words into smaller chunks</li>
<li>WordPress Multi-site compatible (not tested with WPMU)</li>
<li>And more…</li>
</ul>
Get in touch
<ul>
<li>I’m available at <a href="http://betterwp.net" rel="nofollow ugc">BetterWP.net</a> and you can also follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/0dd0ne0ut" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>.</li>
<li>Check out <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BetterWPnet" rel="nofollow ugc">latest WordPress Tips and Ideas</a> from BetterWP.net.</li>
</ul>
Languages
<ul>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li>French 1.1.0 (fr_FR) – Thanks to <a href="http://maitremo.fr" rel="nofollow ugc">Ma�tre M�</a>!</li>
<li>Russian 1.1.0 (ru_RU) – Thanks to Konstantin (kg69design)!</li>
<li>Ukrainian 1.1.0 (ua_UA) – Thanks to Konstantin (kg69design)!</li>
<li>Portuguese 1.2.1 (pt_PT) – Thanks to Marcus (http://www.maniadecelular.com.br)!</li>
<li>Spanish 1.2.1 (es_ES) – Thanks to Jordi!</li>
<li>Polish 1.2.1 (pl_PL) – Thanks to Jarek!</li>
</ul>
Please <a href="http://betterwp.net/wordpress-tips/create-pot-file-using-poedit/" rel="nofollow ugc">help translate</a> this plugin!
Visit <a href="http://betterwp.net/wordpress-plugins/bwp-recent-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin’s Official Page</a> for more information!

Better WordPress Recent Comments

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