Lazy Load for Comments

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1. ★★★★★ Emory Rowland

   2.5y ago

   But support is unresponsive. This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Emory Rowland.

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2. ★★★★★ itsryu

   4.6y ago

   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. This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by itsryu. This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by itsryu. This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by itsryu.

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3. ★★★★★ yastychef

   4.9y ago

   Great plugin, works fine. I just hope it always gets updated. Keep up the great work!

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4. ★★★★★ fernandroid3

   5.4y ago

   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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5. ★★★★★ westgen

   5.5y ago

   Спасибо за отличный плагин! Это то, что я искал.

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6. ★★★★★ janaa

   5.9y ago

   Just what I needed, and it didn’t slow down my webpages!

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7. ★★★★★ MrsJessicaSimpson

   6.0y ago

   This plugin is brilliant, but for all the wrong reasons. Currently running WP – Version – 5.5 You all know the story, junk bomber-bots cruises the web, see an open comments section: then swoops in and drops their get rich (and other), foul smelling loads right into your unsuspecting core, whereby you have to clean the [spam] out, if the system hasn’t already done so, but you still need to check it anyhow: just in case. It’s a pain, am I right? The only viable solution that I’ve found to date, (apart from installing junk plugin killers that don’t work), is to close off [all] comments on [all] pages bar one, the contacts page: that I had to monitor constantly, .. But not any more, if you select (Button) to load the comments section, then it appears that this Plugin hides the WP comments-open-letter-box from the bomber-bots, which is brilliant. Now I’m not saying that the junk-Bots can’t evolve: they probably will, but currently, the automatic spam scripts can’t press a button to open their bomb-bays with their stinking deposits, .. Oh’ happy days: no junk mail for over a week now. I can highly recommend the lazy loading plugin, but as I say: for all the wrong reasons. Hope it helps. This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by MrsJessicaSimpson. Reason: spotted spelling mistakes

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8. ★★★★★ aapc

   6.1y ago

   I work on a lot of sites that have a ton of comments so lazy loading seems like an interesting idea. Unfortunately I found this plugin breaks a very basic WP function of using an anchor to quickly scroll down to the comments section. Many themes have this “jump to comments” link built right in. Unfortunately both the “#respond” and “#comments” anchors are part of the HTML that gets lazy loaded. I hope the author comes up with a solution. Keep up the good work!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.0.1 Fixed comments not rendering on Genesis and similar classic themes that rely on comments_template() populating comments_by_type . 2.0.1
2. — Version 2.0.0 Complete rewrite using React and the WordPress REST API. Added support for block themes (the core Comments block). New React settings page under Comments → Lazy Load . Settings for load method, minimum comment count, but 2.0.0
3. — Version 1.0.10 Added compatibility for the Divi theme builder. 1.0.10

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Translated into 11 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-07-25 3K+ → 2K+ down after 338 days in tier
2. 2024-08-21 4K+ → 3K+ down after 396 days in tier
3. 2023-07-22 5K+ → 4K+ down after 279 days in tier
4. 2022-10-16 6K+ → 5K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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• WP YouTube Lyte 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Insights from Google PageSpeed 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags C
• Lazy Load for Videos 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Solid Performance – Your No-Code Caching, Performance, & Page Speed Solution 4K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B

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Lazy Load for Comments: 2K+ active installs, 4.7★ (28 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/lazy-load-for-comments