Title: Featured Comments
Author: Syed Balkhi
Published: <strong>January 12, 2010</strong>
Last modified: October 10, 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Featured Comments

 By [Syed Balkhi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smub/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/feature-comments.1.2.6.zip)

 * [Details](https://kea.wordpress.org/plugins/feature-comments/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://kea.wordpress.org/plugins/feature-comments/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://kea.wordpress.org/plugins/feature-comments/#installation)
 * [Development](https://kea.wordpress.org/plugins/feature-comments/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feature-comments/)

## Description

Lets the admin add “featured” or “buried” css class to selected comments. Handy 
to highlight comments that add value to your post.

This plugin makes use of the meta_query option added in WordPress 3.5 to the WP_Comment_Query
class, so it is no longer compatible with earlier versions of WordPress.

Please report bugs and suggestions on [Github](https://github.com/pippinsplugins/Featured-Comments).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Comment Edit Table
 * [[
 * Single Comment Edit
 * [[
 * Class added to comment, as seen on the frontend (screenshot shows source viewed
   in Firebug)

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload ‘feature-comments’ directory to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

All the options will be automatically added to the edit comments table, and single
comment edit screen

## Reviews

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 [Hadi Dastangoo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hadidastangoo/) October 18, 2021

Great for stylize special comments. Please keep it alive! Thank you very much 🙂

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 [brzestranice](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brzestranice/) September 3, 2016

Great, just add “Showe excerpt” in widget.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feature-comments/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Featured Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Syed Balkhi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smub/)
 *   [ Pippin Williamson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mordauk/)
 *   [ Utkarsh Kukreti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/utkarsh/)

[Translate “Featured Comments” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/feature-comments)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feature-comments/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/feature-comments/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/feature-comments/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/feature-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.6

 * Fixed a bug that caused the Feature / Bury links to not work on pages where comments
   were loaded through ajax
 * Updated add_comment_meta() to update_comment_meta() to ensure we are not adding
   duplicate values

#### 1.2.5

 * Fixed a minor security vulnerability that could allow someone to trick an admin
   into featuring or burying a comment

#### 1.2.4

 * Fixed a bug with the Featured Comments widget and not being able to properly 
   set the number of comments to show

#### 1.2.3

 * Fixed a fatal error in the Featured Comments widget
 * Fixed an undefined index error in the Featured Comments widget
 * Fixed a missing comment ID parameter to the get_comment_author_link()

#### 1.2.2

 * Improved capability check when processing ajax requests

#### 1.2.1

 * Re-added Buried checkbox to the edit comment screen
 * Added a file-modified-time version number to the JS to ensure file is not cached
   between updates
 * Added a div.feature-burry-comments wrapper to the Feature | Bury links added 
   to comments

#### 1.2

 * Development taken over by [Pippin Williamson](http://pippinsplugins.com)
 * NOTE: no longer compatible with WordPress versions less than 3.5
 * Replaced deprecated functions with up-to-date versions
 * Added new Featured Comments widget
 * Updated plugin class to a singleton

#### 1.1.1

 * Fixed bug, which showed feature/bury links to all users, instead of users with‘
   moderate_comments’ capability.

#### 1.1

 * Major update
 * Anyone with ‘moderate_comments’ capability is now able to feature/bury comments
   both from the frontend and backend
 * Added support for featuring comments using ajax.
 * The edit comments section now highlights featured comments, and reduces the opacity
   of buried comments.
 * Fixed some E_NOTICE’s

#### 1.0.3

 * Fixed a bug introduced in the last update

#### 1.0.2

 * Refactored source code

#### 1.0.1

 * Added missing screenshot files

#### 1.0

 * First version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.6**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 *  Language
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## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Syed Balkhi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smub/)
 *   [ Pippin Williamson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mordauk/)
 *   [ Utkarsh Kukreti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/utkarsh/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feature-comments/)

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