Truncate Comments

Description

Truncate Comments is a plugin that hides a part of a long comment under a “Read more” link that, when clicked, reveals the hidden part of the comment. The plugin provides the functionality of Amazon.com comments.

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The plugin uses jQuery Collapser by Aakash Chakravarthy.

Screenshots

The plugin settings page.
Example of a hidden comment.

Faq

Installation Instructions

Visit «Plugins\Add New».
Search for «Truncate Comments».
Install and activate the plugin.
That’s all.

Plugin settings are available in «Settings\Truncate Comments».

How to style a “Read more” link using CSS?

Add the following code to the style.css file of your theme.

.commentMoreLink {
   color:red!important;
}

The link will become red (just an example).

Does the plugin support localization?

Yes, please use translate.wordpress.org.

Reviews

Simple but powerful

By Soprano on April 30, 2025

It seems like a feature that would be part of wp core. This awesome plugin makes it possible to avoid having walls of text in the comments sections of many blogs...

Collapse back/Read less

By wujanowski on December 13, 2018

Very useful plugin. What I miss is the possibility to collapse the opened comment back after I have read it or decided not to read (link like "Collapse back" or "Read less"). Or to collapse automatically after time the blog owner can define ´ Best WJ

Perfect

By charismeki on January 24, 2017

Super, just adjusted line-height via css to keep theme style! A "Read Less" to collapse long comments would be also great. Thx, c--

Simple & Effective

By alexmarshall on September 3, 2016

Really simple to set up and great for de-cluttering the comments section. Exactly what I was looking for

Changelog

2.00

minor bug fixes
added “Hide” button.

1.04

minor bug fixes

1.03

removed PHP notices.

1.02

removed the bundled languages in favour of language packs from translate.wordpress.org.

1.01

added German translation (thanks to ezkay).

1.00

first public version.