This plugin displays recent comment lists at assigned locations, with comprehensive support for widgets.
As of April 2026, Better WordPress Recent Comments is a WordPress comments plugin with 600 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 55K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
This plugin displays recent comment lists at assigned locations. It does not add any significant load to your website. The comment list is updated on the fly when a visitor adds a comment or when you moderate one. No additional queries are needed for end-users.
A recent comment list, in my opinion, can help stimulate discussion and exploration of your blog tremendously. Now for the past few months I have been using a plugin called Get Recent Comments; though this plugin is configurable and indeed popular, the code is somehow messy and no support for custom post type is found. The worst thing is Get Recent Comment doesn’t seem to be updated anymore, so I decide to write another recent comment plugin which is more lightweight and makes use of some nice features provided by WordPress 3…
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Note: other bugs such as wrong number of comments displayed or RTL WordPress version display issues will be fixed in 1.2.3 (scheduled for November).
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