Adds avatars and announcements comments. Compact code.
As of April 2026, WP Recent Comments With Avatars is a WordPress widget plugin with 90 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
Lightweight plugin that overrides the default widget “recent comments” in WordPress, adding an avatar display visitors comments and quotes length of 50 characters.
Is a direct descendant of WP_Widget_Recent_Comments.
Example markup that is generated by the plugin(for theming):
<ul id="recentcomments">
<li class="recentcomments">
<div class="alignleft">
<img width="32" height="32" class="avatar avatar-32 photo" src="http://0.gravatar.com/...%3D32&r=G" alt="">
</div>
<b>UserName</b>: excerpt comment <a href="http://example.com/page/#comment-ID">»</a>
</li>
<li class="recentcomments">
...
</li>
</ul>
| WordPress | 3.5.1+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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