Edit comments with live preview and bundle edits in Customizer changesets.
As of April 2026, Customize Comments is a WordPress comments plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
This plugin is a proof of concept for how comment editing might be added to the Customizer, with edits to comments being staged in changesets along with any other changes made in customziation session. It demonstrates scalable lazy-loading of controls/settings via the REST API. It demonstrates both dynamic settings and dynamic partials.
A new Comments section is added to the Customizer, and when this section is expanded the most recent comments are fetched from the REST API and then are added as textarea controls in the section. A button appears at the bottom of the section for loading subsequent pages of comments.
The comments are listed with the comment author and publish date along with the post it was commented on. Only the comment’s content is currently editable. When you do ed…
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Initial release.
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