It adds 3 new custom fields to comments (Featured, Buried, Children buried), allowing you to add special properties to each of them.
As of April 2026, Hikari Featured Comments is a WordPress comment plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Comments – wpDiscuz.
Have you ever wanted to highlight a valuable comment among all others? Or not let that troll 6-paragraphs comment take more space than it deserve? Or even hide a whole thread of offtipics?
Well, now you can!
Hikari Featured Comments is a simple plugin that adds 3 new custom fields to comments, allowing you to add special properties to each of them.
With this feature available, you can query any comment to know if it has any of those properties flagged, and if so you can take special actions within your theme or another plugin.
There are 3 special properties available, you can give them any semantic you like, but default meanings are as follows:
* Featured: a comment flagged as featured should be highlighted from all others. You can give it special CSS styles from your theme to ma…
| WordPress | 2.9.0+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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