Comments Changelog

Add author email to sidebar when editing a comment in the control panel.

Add “Comments Order By” plugin setting to control the direction of comments.

Update English translations.

Update non-English translations.

Fix some email message translation keys.

Fix order of operations when uninstalling the plugin.

Fix Emoji support and stripping out some valid special characters for comments.

Add action for Comments to determine state of saving or deleting.

Add inline option for reCAPTCHA JS loading.

Fix an error where trashed comments weren’t validated correctly.

Fix custom email templates not working for notifications.

Fix an error with ownerSiteId for multi-site installs.

Fix lack of typecast for siteId when submitting comments.

Update system message headings for some email notifications.

Fix an issue when installing the plugin, and automatically disabled.

Fix an incompatibility with Emails plugin.

Fix incorrect return types for voting and flagging comments with GraphQL mutations.

Fix an error when sending email notifications.

Fix an error when upvoting immediately after downvoting.

Fix avatars not working for logged-in users.

Add support for setting ReCAPTCHA API keys via .env variables.

Fix template path not resetting when calling commentsInclude().

Fix an error when trying to edit a comment from the element index.

Fix element index arrow for comment elements.

Fix element action for setting status.

Fix lack of permission support for managing other user’s comments.

Fix being unable to set id, uid or userId for GraphQL mutations.

Fix an error running resave console commands.

Add resave console command for elements.

Add checks for registering events for performance.

Add archiveTableIfExists() to install migration.

Now requires PHP 8.0.2+.

Now requires Craft 4.0.0+.

Now requires Comments 1.9.2 in order to update from Craft 3.

Rename service classes.

Rename base plugin methods.

Fix an error with GraphQL.

Fix typing for placeholderAvatar plugin setting.

Un-bold title for comments in comments index.

Fix an error when permissions exist for a no-longer-available element group.

Fix setting a parent comment not working for Feed Me, due to setParent() changes.

Removed craft.comments.all() and craft.comments.form().

Removed Comment::trashUrl, Comment::flagUrl, Comment::downvoteUrl, Comment::upvoteUrl.

Improve dutch translations. (thanks @jeroenlammerts).

Fix email notifications not sending via the queue when comments are made from a non-primary site

Fix custom sources not filtering by $ownerSectionId. (thanks @jeroenlammerts).

Add Minimum Score plugin setting for reCAPTCHA.

Fix JS render variables being way too large.

Fix an error saving a comment when the current site can’t be determined.

Fix replies not showing in the correct order (latest first).

Fix Feed Me importing not taking into account trashed owners.

Add settings.commentingAvailable(), which will provide more detailed information on why commenting is not available on an element. (thanks @adrienne).

Add support for importing nested child comments for Feed Me.

Fix an error when "Enable Admin Notifications" was enabled, but no "Comment Administrators" were defined.

Add some missing NL translations. (thanks @arifje).

Add comments/comments/get-js-variables controller endpoint to fetch necessary variables for rendering JS. Useful for headless setups. (thanks @arifje).

Fix an error when using GraphQL mutations and "Auto-close Comments" is enabled.

Add ./craft comments/base/set-structure console command for fixing comments that have lost their original structure.

Update status colours to Craft standard.

Ensure reply and edit forms generate unique IDs, when an id attribute is set on the DOM element for a comment. (thanks @adrienne).

Fix userAgent column in comments not having their default set to null.

Fix incompatibility with Blitz and CSRF token refreshing.

Fix CSRF token being added to form submissions twice.

Fix Craft 2 migration and commentDate error.

Fix error when trying to send author notification emails for comments made on assets.

Fix showCustomFields deprecation warning.

Add getUserVotes() variable functions.

Fix an error when editing a comment, for a comment from a deleted user.

Fix “under review” text not being translated properly.

Fix an error in hasDownVoted() and hasUpVoted().

Fix an error when flagging a comment, “Enable Flagged Notifications” is checked and no admin emails are defined.

Update JS to not rely on .cc-i-body for message.

Improve Flag and Vote queries for large amount of comments/votes/flags.

Fix a recursion error when trying to send subscribe email notifications.

Fix error with comment.parent not returning the correct element.

Fix some unsupported emoji’s included in comment text throwing errors.

Add Gravatar support to automatically fetch commenter avatars.

Add comments widget to show summary of comments in the Dashboard.

Add votes param to orderBy comment queries, allowing you to order comments by their total number of votes.

Add isFlagged comment query param.

Add maxUserComments plugin setting to control the maximum number of comments each user can add, for each owner element.

Add securityMatchExact plugin setting to allow security keywords to be exact word matches.

Add notificationAdmins plugin setting, allowing you to add emails for administrators to get email notifications on every comment.

Add templateEmail plugin setting to provide your own template for email notifications.

Add maxReplyDepth plugin setting to control how many levels of replies a comment can have - even disable replies altogether.

Add notificationAdmin to provide a collection of emails for certainly admin-centric notifications.

Add notificationAdminEnabled to notify nominated admins whenever a comment is made.

Add notificationFlaggedEnabled to notify nominated admins whenever a comment is flagged.

Add “Votes” column to comment index in control panel.

Add “Flagged” column to comment index in control panel.

Add native Feed Me support.

Add custom field support for Feed Me importing.

Add commentsSiteInclude() Twig function to allow template include resolution to site templates.

Add jsSettings optional parameter to craft.comments.render() to supply JS with extra settings.

Add trashAction and trashActionMessage to JS render variables.

Add comment caching for parent comments.

Add caching for avatars, to prevent fetching the same avatar multiple times.

Improved database query performance, lowering average queries by 30%.

Replace class selectors with attributes for javascript. (thanks @jsunsawyer).

Comments now requires Craft 3.5.8+.

Memoize flags and votes for performance.

Fix eager-loading comments more than 2 levels deep.

Fix comment replies not appearing in the control panel when editing a comment, if the replies were trashed.

Fix guest avatars not caching correctly for comment elements.

Fix comment owner not being cached properly for comment elements.

Fix missing <p> tags when editing a comment and closing a comment on the front-end.

Removed showCustomFields config setting.

Ensure a field layout for comments is created when plugin settings are save in the control panel.

Fix error when trying to check avatar existence on non-local volumes.

Fix pending status icon when “Use shapes to represent statuses” was set to true.

Really fix an issue where the field layout may not exist.

Fix field layout for comments not getting created correctly for new installs.

Add craft.comments.getJsVariables(), to allow manual initialisation of front-end JS.

Add loadInline option to craft.comments.renderJs(), to disable immediate initialisation.

Add notice in settings for Structure info regeneration.

Fix JS error when using craft.comments.renderJs. (thanks @john-henry).

Fix JS error when deleting a comment from the front-end.

Flagging, voting and deleting a comment is now triggered through POST forms instead of links. Please ensure you update any custom templates to reflect this change.

Flagging, voting and deleting a comment can now only be done via POST requests.

Fix CSRF issue with delete, flag and vote URLs.

comment.trashUrl is now deprecated. Use a POST form instead. See docs.

comment.flagUrl is now deprecated. Use a POST form instead. See docs.

comment.upvoteUrl is now deprecated. Use a POST form instead. See docs.

comment.downvoteUrl is now deprecated. Use a POST form instead. See docs.

Fix XSS issue for guest names containing potentially malicious values. Credit to Paweł Hałdrzyński Limpid Security.

Fix XSS issue for asset volume names containing potentially malicious values. Credit to Paweł Hałdrzyński Limpid Security.

Fix CSRF issue for trashing a comment. Credit to Paweł Hałdrzyński Limpid Security.

Fix some Ajax actions (vote, flag) not working in some instances.

Fix allowAnonymous error, thrown when trying to comment.

Add read-only structure info to settings. Useful for debugging.

Fix name/email fields appearing when allowGuest is off.

Add guestShowEmailName config option.

Add performance improvements, with an 70% reduction in the number of database queries.

Add eager-loading for owner element, author element (and photo).

Add eager-loading for comment structure. Only applicable for default templates.

Clarify Anonymous commenting to be Guest commenting.

Deprecated plugin setting allowAnonymous. Use allowGuest.

Deprecated plugin setting allowAnonymousVoting. Use allowGuestVoting.

Deprecated plugin setting allowAnonymousFlagging. Use allowGuestFlagging.

File logging now checks if the overall Craft app uses file logging.

Log files now only include GET and POST additional variables.

Add beforeSendSubscribeEmail event.

Allow all notification events to have isValid set to prevent sending.

Ensure plugin project config is removed when uninstalling.

Add hideVotingForThreshold.

Fix custom fields not saving in settings.

Fix custom fields no appearing for GQL queries.

Fix incorrect getVotes() function. Change to getAllVotes().

Fix SQL error thrown in Postgres when viewing the comments index.

Fix error when deleting fields, in some circumstances.

Add support for custom fields on comments.

Fix structure not being setup correctly when installing plugin.

Fix subscribe to singular comment notifications. (thanks @frank-rocketpark).

Add GraphQL support. See docs.

Add ability to subscribe to comment threads, or individual comments.

Add ability to save additional custom fields content to comments (when using custom templates). Just add your fields with fields[myHandle].

Allow passing of custom comment url with a comment submission.

Add name of user to comment heading, when replying.

Add dutch translation for notifications messages. (thanks @skoften).

Add notification for "someone made a comment on element x". (thanks @skoften).

Add notification for "someone replied to your comment". (thanks @skoften).

Add ownerSection and ownerSectionId comment query params. See docs.

Add indexSidebarGroup and indexSidebarIndividualElements config settings. See docs.

The comments element index sidebar now groups comments made on entries into their sections.

Add defaultQueryStatus to control default query status for comment element queries.

Add moderator notifications. Includes two new moderator notification settings, and a user group to define who your moderators are.

Add EVENT_BEFORE_SEND_AUTHOR_EMAIL event.

Add EVENT_BEFORE_SEND_REPLY_EMAIL event.

Add EVENT_BEFORE_SEND_MODERATOR_EMAIL event.

Add EVENT_BEFORE_SEND_MODERATOR_APPROVED_EMAIL event.

Notifications will skip sending to the currently logged in user. (thanks @skoften).

Fix being unable to edit the content of a comment in the CP.

Fix project config using non-uid’s for structure and permissions.

Fix incorrect date comparison for autoCloseDays.

Added guestRequireEmailName, to control whether guests email and name should be required. True by default.

Add some example no-JS templates.

Fix lack of returning comment/flag/vote models when performing actions on them.

Add debugging to email notifications.

Fix comment-saving always assuming comments are from the current user.

Fix lack of validation for editing a comment from another user.

Fix JS bug where a user could act on another users’ comment from the front-end in some cases.

Use Craft's date utilities for getting translatable time diff.

Remove Carbon dependancy.

Fix error with sql_mode=only_full_group_by.

Fix error with auto close days enabled.

Add override notice for settings fields.

Allow render() to override comments query properly.

Fix commentDate not being set in some cases.

Add Google reCAPTCHA v3 for better spam protection.

Add better support for multi-site and the owner element (the commented-upon element).

Fixed some migration cases from Craft 2.

Add limit to comments index for large amounts of comments.

Fix forcing the current time on any new comment’s commentDate.

Add more checks to migrations.

Fix migration from 1.0.6 (again).

Add email/name to sort in the CP.

Add searching for comment, name and email in the CP.

Template now produces #cc-w-{{ elementId }} as opposed to a random number. (thanks @skoften).

Fix only being able to vote on a comment once.

Fix only being able to flag a comment once.

Fix missing owner query function.

Refactor CP routes and fix “save and continue route”, fixing an error.

Fix error in the CP when trying to refer to an element has been deleted.

Fix SQL error when trying to order by commentDate.

Fix error with multisite saving edit form (thanks @colinmeinke).

Fix missing element methods

Fix missing elementId in query for render()

Fix commentDate not being set after new comment is created (causing an error to be thrown)

Add flag user feedback

Fix migration for Craft 2 not renaming comments table

Craft 3 release, major refactor and rewrite from the ground up.

Brand new, single-line include via craft.comments.render() which renders comments and form. Includes front-end CSS and Ajax-driven vanilla JS and is designed to be a drop-in solution to add comments to your site. You can of course still override or replace all aspects of the front end resources.

craft.comments.all() has been deprecated. Use craft.comments.fetch() instead.

craft.comments.form() has been deprecated. Use craft.comments.render() instead.

Simplified templates - find them in comments/src/templates/_special.

Countless bug fixes, and improvements!

Verbb marketing (new plugin icon, readme, etc).

Add plugin settings variable.

Improved onTrashComment and onBeforeTrashComment events.

Swap comment output macro for native {% nav %} tag - better supports element queries such as level.

Added ability to disable spam checks.

Fixed support for adding comments to non-entry elements.

Fixed typo in edit comment controller action.

Fixed issue with comments index showing comment id, not user name.

Move Save Comment button above content on edit comment page (for consistent Craft behaviour).

Added element attribute to CommentModel.

Added parent attribute to CommentModel.

Added comment attribute to FlagModel.

Added user attribute to FlagModel.

Added comment attribute to VoteModel.

Added user attribute to VoteModel.

Code formatting.

Craft 2.5+ support, including release feed and icons.

Comments can now be edited through the front-end.

Added support for querying comments via votes

Added onBeforeSaveComment hook.

Added onSaveComment hook.

Added onBeforeDeleteComment hook.

Added onDeleteComment hook.

Added onBeforeFlagComment hook.

Added onFlagComment hook.

Added onBeforeVoteComment hook.

Added onVoteComment hook.

Reorganise settings pages - separate flag/voting.

Flagging comments and voting can be enabled/disabled altogether.

Comments now require moderation by default.

Lots of refactoring and reorganising.

Removed Comments fieldtype.

Comments are shown in hierarchical structure when in control panel.

Full ajax and non ajax support for endpoints.

Renamed comments/add to comments/save.

Simplified and improved templates for single template tag.

Simplified example code for ajax and non ajax handling.

Comment forms handle validation properly, actual error messages and remembers text on validation.

Fixed comments/edit endpoint to include validation/security.