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Total downloads: 4,112,320

Active installs: 80,000

Total reviews: 577

Average rating: 4.7

Support threads opened: 6

Support threads resolved: 4 (67%)

Available in: 1 language(s)

Contributors: 1

Last updated: 12/6/2025 (24 days ago)

Added to WordPress: 11/30/2014 (11 years old)

Minimum WordPress version: 5.0

Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9

Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 24 days ago • Support resolved 67% • 577 reviews

82/100

Is Comments – wpDiscuz abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 24 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.0

Tested up to: 6.9

Requires PHP: 5.6

Ratings

512

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Developers

gVectors Team4

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Description

AJAX realtime comment system with custom comment form and fields. Designed to supercharge WordPress native comments. Super fast and responsive with dozens of features. This is the best alternative to Disqus and Jetpack Comments, if you want to keep your comments in your database.

wpDiscuz version 7 is a revolutionary perspective on the commenting world! This plugin changes your website commenting experience and provides you with new user engagement features. It’s totally improved with brand new innovative features bringing live to your website.

wpDiscuz Demo: https://wpdiscuz.com/
Support Forum: https://wpdiscuz.com/community/
wpDiscuz GDPR: https://wpdiscuz.com/gdpr/
wpDiscuz Addons: https://wpdiscuz.com/addons/
wpDiscuz Documentation: https://wpdiscuz.com/docs/
wpDiscuz Addons Bundle: https://gvectors.com/product/wpdiscuz-addons-bundle/

Comments – wpDiscuz Features

Three nice and modern comment layouts
Brings fastest commenting experience (boosted core)
Adds interactive comment box on posts and other content types
Inline commenting and feedback. Commenting on post content.
Live Notification with real-time updating Comment Bubble.
Social Commenting with lots of Social login options
Post Rating. Allows to rate posts directly on rating stars.
Commenting can be allowed/disallowed on posts and other content types
Responsive comments form and comment threads design
Clean, simple and easy user interface and user experience
Comment list sorting by newest, oldest and most voted comments
Anonymous comments ( name and email can be set as not required )
Full integration with Social Network Login plugins (Facebook, Twitter…)
Multi-level (nested) comment threads, with maximum levels depth setting option
Allows to create a new discussion thread and reply to existing comment
Ajax button “Load More Comments” instead of simple comments pagination
Lazy load wpDiscuz comments on scrolling
Different comment date formats, reflects WordPress date format settings
Logged in users and guests can edit their comments (time-frame can be limited by admin)
Automatic URLs to link conversion in comment texts
Automatic image source URLs to image (HTML) conversion in comment texts
Long comment text breaking function (“Read more” button)
Multiple line-breaks (limited by WordPress comment filter)
Comment author notification options with special checkboxes on comment form
Subscription activation via additional “Confirm Subscription” email
Ability to add comment system on attachment pages if it’s allowed by WordPress
Fast and easy comment form with ajax validation and data submitting
Fully integrated and compatible with WordPress
Uses WordPress Comment system with all managing functions and features
Secure and Anti-Spam features will not allow spammers to comment
Comment voting with positive and negative result
Smart voting system with tracking by logged-in user and cookies
Quick Tags on comment form textarea
Custom Comment Forms with custom fields
Rating shortcode for posts via comment custom field [wpdrating] with a lot of attributes
Option to overwrite comment template and style
Highlighting new comments since last visit with different background
Notification to comment author when comment was approved
Display only parent comments with view replies (x) button
Control commenters by roles (allow/restrict access to website comment area)
Option to load all comments on first page load
Built-in Gravatar caching
Sticky Comments
Closed Comments Threads (disable replies)
Subscribe to User / User Follow
Built-in comment and comment author caching system

Add-ons

Integration Add-ons

Installation

Note

IMPORTANT: If you have a Cache Plugin, please delete all caches after wpDiscuz update.

Installation

Upload plugin folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory,
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

After installing and activating the plugin, click on Comments menu item in the left sidebar in your website admin panel.

Update to wpDiscuz 7 versions

Please read the documentation:
https://wpdiscuz.com/docs/wpdiscuz-7/plugin-installation/update-to-wpdiscuz-7/

Frequently Asked Questions

IMPORTANT

If you have a Cache Plugin, please delete all caches after wpDiscuz update.
If wpDiscuz comment form is missing please read this support topic:
wpDiscuz comment form is missing

Comments – wpDiscuz Settings

Basic configuration suits for most of cases, but if you want to configure Comments – wpDiscuz deeper, click on » Settings sub menu item which is under wpDiscuz menu item and change the settings as you want.

Comments – wpDiscuz Phrases

Comments – wpDiscuz has phrases for frontend, for those who want customize texts and messages without using .po/.mo files, but still you can use .po/.mo translation files with combination of Comments – wpDiscuz phrases. You just need to enable “Use Plugin .PO/.MO files” setting in Comments – wpDiscuz » Settings page

Comments – wpDiscuz Documentation

Here you can find more detailed answers for your questions – https://wpdiscuz.com/docs/

Support Forum

For deeper support please visit our Support Forum

Does this plugin fully replace the current comment system?

Yes! Comments – wpDiscuz changes default comment system to a new interactive system.

What will happen to old comments?

Nothing will be lost! Comments – wpDiscuz will show all old comments.

Where comments are stored?

Comments – wpDiscuz uses the default WordPress comment storage system, all comments are on your database and all comments are manageable in Dashboard > Comments admin page.

Will my comments be lost if I install this plugin, and then remove it?

Comments – wpDiscuz doesn’t affect any data. You can install and uninstall whenever you want without any worries.

Review feed

Heiko

4/13/2023

Best Comment Plugin

Simple, very good looking and available for free. For me the BEST plugin for WordPress. I buy extensions to support the developers, but free operation is possible. And I love the inline feedback feature! Keep it up, very good work!

expertom.pro

2/1/2025

So happy with this plugin - and all add-ons!

Yesterday evening i decided to get some add-ons for the great wpDiscuz plugin, had some design issues due to the special construction of my chosen wp theme. Within hours i got support, the needed code (.css) snipped - and everything in order. Thank you so very much for your great plug-ins, add-ons and an incredible support you donated to me. Be blessed! Truly Tom

Olaf Lederer

11/25/2025

Nice plugin, they fixed an issue I had with php8.3

After an upgrade to php 8.3 the plugin broke my customer's website. It took some discussions here at WP.org to convince the plugin's team to add more validations into their code.But after they fixed it the PHP errors are gone. Thanks!