CommentsWP

Changelog

All notable changes to the CommentsWP plugin will be documented on this page as a changelog.

v1.3 – 2026-02-01

IMPORTANT:

  • This version requires WordPress 6.5 or higher.

Added:

  • The “Total by Time Period” card now has a new “Group by Day” option.
  • The “Total by Time Period” card now has a “Newest First” and “Oldest First” option. It affects the order of time periods displayed in the card.

Changed:

  • Visual refresh of the plugin admin area.
  • The plugin supports the latest WordPress 6.9.

Fixed:

  • The plugin was generating the PHP notice “Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly” on the front-end in cases when an AJAX request was sent to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php by any other 3rd-party plugin.
  • Improve the performance of the Dashboard cards a bit by preventing double population.
  • Improve the performance of AJAX requests for all 3rd-party plugins by preventing CommentsWP from loading its Dashboard cards on each AJAX request.
  • The comment type dropdown on the Dashboard page was empty in case there was no data in the comments table.
  • Removed unused functions which are leftovers from development.
  • A lot of PHP code style improvements.

v1.2 – 2025-02-09

IMPORTANT:

  • This version requires PHP 7.4 or higher and WordPress 6.4 or higher.

Added:

  • Now you can filter the dashboard cards by comment type: Comments, Pingbacks, Trackbacks, etc.
  • New Profiles page that lists the commenter authors with their total number of comments, last and first comment date, and also their known names.

Changed:

  • Much more intelligent caching logic: old internal cache is no longer hard-coded for a certain amount of time. Now it is being generated and lives until the new comment is being posted on a site, deleted, updated or changed its status.

Fixed:

  • Various performance improvements.
  • There was PHP warning in the “Total by Time Period” card on Dashboard when there were no approved comments.

v1.1 – 2023-05-07

Important:

  • This version requires PHP 7.2 or higher and WordPress 5.5 or higher.

Added:

  • Each Dashboard Card now has its own link to a dedicated documentation page with more information about the card.
  • Display the actual dates next to week numbers in the “Total by Time Period” card for improved readability.
  • All Comments Date range support: the “Total by Time Period” card when grouped by month or week now has links that filter comments on the “All Comments” page accordingly.

Fixed:

  • In certain screen sizes, the double cards labels were not fitting in the block and were overlapping with each other. Now ellipsis is displayed when the label is too long.

v1.0 – 2022-07-20

Added: