WP CommentWidgetizer
WP CommentWidgetizer is a simple widget that takes one of the approved comments made on any page or post of your site and displays it in the sidebar. It can be used to manage guest books, or more simply to randomly export to your homepage comments spread deeper in your site pages in order to make it
WP CommentWidgetizer is a simple widget that takes one of the approved comments made on any page or post of your site and displays it in the sidebar.
It can be used to manage guest books, or more simply to randomly export to your homepage comments spread deeper in your site pages in order to make it visible to your visitors not reaching the post or page holding those comments.
You can see the CommentWidgetizer widget used as guestbook homepage exporter here . French reading visitors will get additional insights on this widget genesis page .
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To install the WP CommentWidgetizer plugin just follow this simple 10-step recipe :
- 01Download the plugin and expand it to an empty directory of your local disk drive.
- 02Copy the local wp-commentwidgetizer folder created by the unzipper onto your server plugins folder ( wp-content/plugins/ ).
- 03Login into the WordPress administration area and click on the Plugins left menu. Expand the Installed view.
- 04Locate the CommentWidgetizer plugin and click on the Activate link. Check that the plugin is actually listed as activated.
- 05Go to Appearance > Widget . The CommentWidgetizer widget appears in the left pane, drag and drop it to the right sidebar at the place you want it to appear.
- 06In the sidebar, click on the bottom arrow located at the right of the widget to expand it.
- 07Fill the text fields : Title and Text (optional)
- 08Fill in the Post or page IDs field : you list here the IDs of posts or pages from where you want the comments to be taken from. In case of multiple pages or posts, separate the IDs with a comma (CSV format). Pages and posts IDs can be found from the Page > Modify or Posts > Modify . Place your mouse over the page or post holding the comments you want to display in the widget, and look at the browser status bar. You should see something like http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=2027 . In this case the ID is 2027. By default the value is set to 0 ; in this case all the comments existing and approved will be considered.
