Highlight Comments allows you to highlight comments, which are worth reading. It can highlight your own comments as well and is fully customizable.
As of April 2026, Highlight Comments is a WordPress comments plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 17 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
If you want to show your readers which comments on a specific post are worth reading, just click on a ‘highlight’-link below them and they will be highlighted automatically (uses custom-fields). This plug-in also adds functionality to highlight your own comments, e.g. the blog author.
Additionally, Highlight Comments will create a list of noteworthy comments and put it below your post. It would then look like this: There are currently 2 comments highlighted: [comment-id], [comment-id]. If you wish, you can even change this text.
Eventually, you can set-up your Cascading-Style-Sheets that will be used to highlight comments via the administrator-GUI of WordPress.
You can deactivate and activate every feature separately.
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 2.7 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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