Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments
Enables in-place expansion of excerpts in the admin dashboard 'Comments' section of the 'Activity' widget to view full comments.
5(2 reviews)
·30 active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments is a WordPress admin plugin with 30 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Top alternative: Loginizer.
5/52 reviews
30active installs
11K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
By default, the ‘Comments’ section of the ‘Activity’ admin dashboard widget only shows an excerpt for the comments, truncating the content of the comments to the first 20 words while at the same time stripping out all markup.
This plugin adds a link at the end of the comment actions row (the links for the comment that become visible under the comment when you hover over the comment). The “Show more” link, when clicked, will replace the excerpt with the full comment. The full comment will include all markup, including originally utilized markup and changes applied via filters, plugins, etc (such as shortcode expansion, smilies, paragraphing, etc). The full comment can be switched back to the excerpt by clicking the “Show less” link (which rep…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
3.0.1 (2025-04-16)
- Change: Discontinue unnecessary explicit loading of textdomain
- Change: Build string via concatenation rather than using HEREDOC syntax
- Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.8+
- Change: Note compatibility through PHP 8.3+
- Change: Update copyright date (2025)
…and 3 more changes
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