Featured Comment Widget is a WordPress widget that allows you to showcase any comment that has been published on your site. Here is how the widget looks in the Dashboard, and on a site using the default Twenty Ten theme:
Installing this plugin adds the Featured Comment Widget to your list of available widgets in the ‘Widgets’ submenu (which you can find under ‘Appearance’ in your WordPress dashboard). Every comment has a numeric ID, and putting that ID in the widget form results in the that comment, along with the name and Gravatar of its commenter, showing in the sidebar. The Gravatar and username is automatically a link to that comment in its respective post.
The plugin is used throughout most of the week on Baristanet.
Installation- Download the Featured Comment Widget plugin.
- Unzip the download and upload ‘featured-comment-widget.php’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Add the widget through the ‘Widgets’ submenu under ‘Appearance’ in WordPress
- Add the comment ID of the comment you want featured in the widget and save.
How does one find the ID of a comment?
Well, there are a couple of ways. Many comments on WordPress have meta data that links to that specific comment. The ID of the comment follows the hash mark in that link. If meta data is shown on your post and/or page comment section, you can find the ID like so:
If you don’t show meta data on your comments, you can still find it in the Dashboard under ‘Comments:’
To do list
Custom widget title (instead of just “Featured Comment”Added to Version 1.1Allow excerpting of long commentsAdded to Version 1.2- Allow option of inserting post title
- Admin menu that allows CSS customization
Internationalization of widget formUpdated in Version 1.3
Download
- Featured Comment Widget (Version 1.3 from WordPress Plugin Directory)
Enjoy showcasing your favorite comments!
Submit any comments and questions pertaining to the plugin on the pancake theorem post…not via email.
