Title: Current Comments
Author: Designgeneers
Published: <strong>June 1, 2013</strong>
Last modified: February 8, 2014

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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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# Current Comments

 By [Designgeneers](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designgeneers/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/current-comments.0.4.0.zip)

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

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

## Description

Example plugin for using Backbone.js with WordPress; displays a live comment stream
in a widget.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The current comment widget – it’s alive!

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin
 2. Activate the plugin
 3. Add the plugin widget to your sidebar or other widget area

## FAQ

#### A comment was made on a post, but it didn’t appear in the widget. Why not?

Comments appear once approved – be sure the comment has been approved.

#### If I unapprove a comment, will it be removed from the widget?

Yes!

#### Why is a minimum of WordPress 3.6 required?

This plugin uses Backbone.js 1.0.0, which was added in WordPress 3.6.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Designgeneers ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designgeneers/)

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

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 0.4.0

 * Limited the number of comments returned to 10
 * Updated to support localization

#### 0.3.0

 * Updated to use Backbone 1.0.0 in WordPress 3.6 (collection add merge)
 * Changed get_comments query to use DESC so that most recent 10 comments are sent
 * Changed ajax update to only fetch any comments added since last query
 * Removed highlighting of new comments and replaced it with automatically updating
   timestamps using moment.js
 * Simplified subview logic to simply prepend new comments at the top of the comments
   view

#### 0.2

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.4.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.6.1**
 * Tags
 * [backbone](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/backbone/)[comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/current-comments/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Designgeneers ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designgeneers/)

## Support

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