Recent Comments is a fast, lightweight WordPress plugin/theme component that showcases the latest comments on your site. It boosts engagement, improves SEO, and keeps visitors browsing by highlighting real-time conversations with clean design, smart filters, and easy customization—no coding required.
- Displays live, recent comments anywhere via widget, shortcode, or block
- Clean, mobile‑responsive design that matches your theme
- Customizable number of comments, excerpt length, and avatar size
- Includes commenter name, avatar, date, and post title
- Link directly to comment or parent post for better navigation
- Filter by post type, category, tag, or specific posts/pages
- Exclude users, roles, or specific posts to reduce noise
- Option to hide trackbacks and pingbacks
- Caching and lazy loading for speed and performance
- Accessible markup with semantic HTML and ARIA support
- Multisite compatible and translation ready (.pot included)
- Works with Gutenberg, classic widget, and PHP template tags
- Custom CSS classes and hooks for developers
- Supports RTL and popular caching/optimization plugins
- SEO-friendly internal linking to boost crawl depth