AJAX Comment Loading
Loads comments with a secondary AJAX request, including comment paging. Speeds initial loading of the page.
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·20 active installs·Updated 13 years agoAs of April 2026, AJAX Comment Loading is a WordPress ajax plugin with 20 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: zipaddr-jp.
3/53 reviews
20active installs
9.1K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
When your posts get a lot of comments, performance can be a concern. The generation of the comment HTML and the delivery of all that HTML can slow down your page loads. This plugin has pages load without comments, and then uses a secondary AJAX request to pull down the comments. Navigating through the pages of comments is also handled via AJAX. On my test install with 100 comments per page, the onload event fires 2x faster. The HTML is generated by the server 6x faster. The HTML downloads 3x faster. The uncompressed size of the HTML is reduced by a factor of 17.
Initial development of this plugin was commissioned by Google — many thanks!
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0
- Original release.
- Initial development commissioned by Google — thanks!
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