Lazy Load for Comments

Description

Lazy load WordPress default commenting system without any complex configurations. Get rid of unwanted HTTP requests and get your page speed back.

Lazy Load for Comments – Features & Advantages

  • Load comments only when required.
  • Improve page loading speed.
  • Reduce no. of HTTP requests!
  • Lazy loading comments gravaters.
  • Genesis support.
  • Divi support.
  • Translation ready!
  • No complex configurations (Just one setting).
  • Developer friendly (Hooks available for altering).
  • Follows best WordPress coding standards.
  • Of course, available on GitHub

Installation | Screenshots

Bug Reports

Bug reports are always welcome. Report here.

Screenshots

  • Settings - Select lazy load method.

Installation

Installing the plugin – Simple

  1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Lazy Load for Comments and click “Install now
  2. Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of lazy-load-for-comments.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
  3. Activate the plugin
  4. Go to Discussion settings.
  5. Select the lazy load method (Scroll or Click).

Need more help?

Feel free to open a support request.

Missing something?

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FAQ

What is the use of this plugin?

Plugin name says everything. This plugin prevents the comments from loading automatically when page/post is loaded. Instead, this plugin will lazy load the comments when user scroll down to comments section or clicking on comment button.

I don’t need loader gif image, can I disable it?

Yes, you can!. Just add following line to your theme’s functions.php or in your custom plugin.

add_filter( 'llc_enable_loader_element', '__return_false' );

How can I change the button text?

Just add following line to your theme’s functions.php or in your custom plugin.

add_filter( 'llc_button_text', function () {
    return 'My Custom Button Text';
});

How can I add a custom class to the button?

Add following line to your theme’s functions.php or in your custom plugin.

add_filter( 'llc_button_class', function () {
    return 'custom-class-1 custom-class-2';
});

Can I use something else instead of loader image?

Yes! There is a filter for this too! Add following line to your theme’s functions.php or in your custom plugin.

add_filter( 'llc_loader_element_content', function () {
    // Use any html element.
    return '<p class="custom-loader">Loading... Please wait.</p>';
});

How to lazy load only only when there specific (or more) no. of comments?

You can simply use below filter to set the minimum no. of comments to lazy load.

add_filter( 'llc_can_lazy_load_minimum_count', function () {
    // Lazy load only if there are 10 or more comments.
    return 10;
});

I need more details

Please open a support request.

Reviews

February 8, 2022
It breaks the Moderation notice. The user just gets sent back to the main page and they don't know if their comment submitted or not. In my analytics, it states that there is a javascript error, so that needs to be fixed. It also breaks the built in discussion settings of breaking the comments into groups, and the feature of clicking "next" to get the next batch Other than that it works. Simple plugin without options.
September 27, 2021
Great plugin, works fine. I just hope it always gets updated. Keep up the great work!
March 22, 2021
Congratulations and thank you very much for this wonderful plugin, my website has a lot of comments, several times the vps cpu reached 100% of use on the pages with many comments, this plugin is wonderful, excellent.
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Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

“Lazy Load for Comments” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

1.0.10 (24/07/2019)

  • 📦 Added support for Divi.

1.0.9 (16/03/2019)

  • 🐛 Fixed issues with scroll load in Woo reviews.

1.0.8 (14/03/2019)

  • 📦 Added Woo reviews support.

1.0.7 (14/03/2019)

  • 🐛 Fixed issues with WP 5.1.
  • 🐛 Fixed issues with Woo reviews.

1.0.6 (27/01/2019)

  • 📦 Added Genesis support.

1.0.5 (19/01/2019)

  • 📦 Added new filter to set minimum no. of comments to lazy load.
  • 👌 Lazy load only when there are comments.
  • 🐛 Fixed empty comments when comments are closed.

1.0.4 (22/12/2018)

  • 👌 Removed nonce (nonce is not required for frontend get requests.).
  • 👌 Changed to GET ajax request.
  • 🐛 Fixed comments respond link.

1.0.3 (03/04/2017)

  • Fixed wrong value return in bot checking function.

1.0.2 (08/02/2017)

  • Added custom filters.
  • Added loader while comments are being loaded.
  • Disabled lazy load for Search Engine crawlers.
  • Scroll to comment if #comment id found in url.
  • 100% translation ready.

1.0.0.1 (19/11/2016)

  • Bug fix on PHP v5.3 – Parse error.

1.0.0 (18/11/2016)

  • First version.