Marc Gagnon

<p>Simple Multilingual (SML) is a minamilist plugin that allows users to easily create multilingual content for WordPress websites. The main differentiator for SML is the ability to add multilingual content to your pages without having to duplicate pages and content. A simple custom delimiter will seperate the text in different languages. The appropriate text is then displayed according to the user selection on the language switcher.</p>
<p>You can use as many languages as you wish. RTL languages are supported. No need for language packs, or add-ons. You can translate posts, pages, media, categories, post tags, menus, and widgets.</p>
<p>The language is set in the plugin settings page by enserting a comma seperated list of languages that you wish to use by using ISO alpha-2 two character language codes. The order of the languages in this list must be followed throughout the site. For exemple, if you add the languages (en, fr) you will have to insert the english text and then the French text in the site content.</p>
<h3>What the Plugin Does</h3>
<h4>❤️ Template translation and show in the correct language</h4>
<p>Create translations for your WordPress pages without duplicating content, place language switchers where you want.</p>
<h4>🔁 Language Switcher</h4>
<p>Use the provided shortcode to insert language switcher Widget.</p>
<ul>
<li>Use flags, language name, or Dropdown list.</li>
<li>Provided <strong>easy CSS styler</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>👁️‍🗨️ Language Visibility</h4>
<p>Allows you to <strong>show or hide every element</strong> on your website <strong>by language</strong>.</p>
<h4>⚙️ Simple Editor</h4>
<p>You can view all languages on the page simultaneously, <strong>no more switching between pages to translate</strong> and no more <strong>duplicate pages</strong></p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Simple translation management plugin.</li>
<li>SML is a minamalist translation switcher with no bloat and unnecessary features.</li>
<li>Allows users to insert as many languages as they wish on a single page without having to duplicate content.</li>
<li>You can insert the language switcher where you want by simply pasting a shortcode that is provided.</li>
<li>You can choose what jQuery selectors you want to be able to translate.</li>
<li>You can decide what differentiator (special character) you wish to use to seperate the language text.</li>
<li>You can choose from three switcher types; text, flags, or dropdown.</li>
<li>The language switcher can be easily customized using our convenient CSS styler.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Installation</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install using the WordPress built-in Plugin installer (via <strong>Plugins > Add New</strong> – search for <code>SML - Siple Multilingual</code>), or extract the ZIP file and drop the contents in the <code>wp-content/plugins/</code> directory of your WordPress installation.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.</li>
<li>Assign languages in the plugin settings page</li>
<li>Choose your language seperator</li>
<li>Pick the switcher type</li>
</ol>


SML – Simple Multilingual – Translation & Language Switcher

So easy!

Allows running a fully multilingual WordPress website using a simple on page language switcher without duplication of content.

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.

SML – Simple Multilingual – Translation & Language Switcher vs Better Recent Comments