Andy Keith

Hi,

Great, thanks for the update.

Hi, sorry that’s not currently possible with the plugin.

What do you mean exactly, do you mean restrict comments to 1 user only?

Hi,

You need to use the format option in the shortcode. E.g.

[better_recent_comments format="{avatar} {date} {comment} {author}"]

See here for details: https://barn2.co.uk/kb/better-recent-comments-shortcode/

Thanks for the review! Much appreciated.

Hi @navipane, glad it works! Good news.

We’re not planning to add that feature to the widget, but will keep it in mind. It’s not always easy to find the time to devote to our www.remarpro.com plugins ??

What version of PHP are you running? You’ll need 5.6 or above ??

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Andy Keith.

This option is only available in the shortcode, not the widget. So to use in a sidebar you’ll need to add the shortcode to a Text Widget.

Hi,

Update on this issue – I’ve just pushed an update (1.1.4) which adds a new post_type option to the shortcode in BRC.

This should allow you to display comments for media items. To do this, set the new post_type option to attachment. Note: because media items have a post_status of inherit, you’ll need to set the post_status option too (use any or inherit).

To display comments for media items:

[better_recent_comments post_type="attachment" post_status="any"]

Let me know if that works for you. It worked from my own testing to display media comments.

Andy

Hi Pierre,

That’s a custom widget for worpdress.com only. The Recent Comments widget in WordPress (i.e. www.remarpro.com) is much more basic.

Just looking into this a bit more for BRC. We possibly need a post_type option…

add_filter( 'better_recent_comments_comment_args', function( $args ) {
    // Limit comments to a specific post ID
    $args['post_id'] = 123;
    return $args;
} );

You’ll need to replace ‘123’ with the actual ID of the post/page. You could also try using get_the_ID() to get the current page ID but I’m not sure that will work with caching. You could try it though.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Andy Keith.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Andy Keith.

Hi,

Thanks! There isn’t a way to do that directly, but you could hook into the code which fetches the comments from the database. I can send you a PHP code snippet if interested. Let me know.

Kind regards,
Andy

Thanks Milan, much appreciated. That was fast!

Hi Milan,

OK great, thanks for letting me know.

Andy

Hi,

Sorry, this is getting into quite specific customisation which is beyond the scope of support for this plugin. I think you need a web developer to help on this one.

Kind regards,

Andy