Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments

Author:Scott Reilly
Version:1.0.1
Last update:04 Jan 2010
Compatibility:WP 2.6+, 2.7+, 2.8+, 2.9+
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Download:[ zip ]
Description:

Adds the ability to do an in-place expansion of comment excerpts on the admin dashboard ‘Recent Comments’ widget.

Extended Description

Adds the ability to do an in-place expansion of comment excerpts on the admin dashboard ‘Recent Comments’ widget.

By default, the ‘Recent Comments’ admin dashboard widget only shows an excerpt for the comments, truncating the content of the comments to the first 20 words while at the same time stripping out all markup.

This plugin adds a link at the end of the comment excerpt (a “>>” (aka »)) that when clicked will replace the excerpt with the full comment. The full comment will include all markup, including originally utilized markup and changes applied via filters, plugins, etc (such as shortcode expansion, smilies, paragraphing, etc). The full comment can be switched back to the except by clicking a “<<" («) link.

"In-place expansion" refers to the ability to click the link to see the full comment and it will be presented in place of the excerpt without requiring a page reload or navigation.

NOTE: This plugin only works for users who have JavaScript enabled.

Find out more at the plugin’s WordPress Plugin Repository page.

Screenshots

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  • A screenshot of the ‘Recent Comments’ admin dashboard page with the plugin active, showing a comment that has been truncated/excerpted by WordPress and a full, short comment.

    screenshot 1

  • A screenshot of the ‘Recent Comments’ admin dashboard page with the plugin active, now showing the excerpted comment fully in-place expanded and with markup and formatting applied.

    screenshot 2


Installation

  1. Unzip expandable-dashboard-recent-comments.zip inside the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for your site (or install via the built-in WordPress plugin installer)
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ admin menu in WordPress

Release Log

  • 04 Jan 2010 : v1.0.1 — add full PHPDoc documentation; minor formatting tweaks; note compatibility with WP 2.9+; update copyright date; update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)
  • 21 Apr 2009 : v1.0 — Initial release

Copyright & Disclaimer

Copyright © 2009-2010 by Scott Reilly (aka coffee2code)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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