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Genial Comments · Version history

Genial Comments changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.3
Oct 23, 2026 (17 days ago)
Releases
17
since 2017
In the last year
4
about one every 11 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20171 release
  • 20182 releases
  • 20192 releases
  • 20201 release
  • 20212 releases
  • 20222 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20242 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Genial Comments 1.8.3Latest

    • Added WordPress Native Comments using the active theme’s existing comments area; no second native comments section is inserted.
    • Added optional Default, Modern, and Minimal native appearance presets with Blue, Green, Purple, and Neutral accent options; styling is disabled by default.
    • Preserved existing provider settings, Facebook compatibility settings, the plugin slug, text domain, and shortcode while switching providers.
    • Refined the provider and appearance settings interface and updated the user-facing plugin display name to Genial Comments.

  2. Genial Comments 1.8.2

    • Added: Disqus is the default provider for new installations when no provider is configured.
    • Updated: Existing installations without an explicit provider retain their legacy Facebook settings and behavior.
    • Added: Actionable admin guidance for missing Disqus configuration and invalid provider values.
    • Improved: Provider resolution no longer silently falls back to Facebook for invalid values.
    • Improved: Admin settings presentation, Facebook discontinuation disclosures, privacy-aware loading, security, and WordPress.org compliance.

  3. Genial Comments 1.8.1

  4. Genial Comments 1.8.0

    • Added: Disqus as a selectable commenting provider using the Universal Embed.
    • Added: Privacy-aware click, viewport, and immediate Disqus loading modes.
    • Updated: Provider selection preserves existing Facebook settings and legacy identifiers.
    • Improved: Security, input handling, output escaping, and WordPress.org compliance.
    • Improved: Compatibility with validated current WordPress and PHP environments.
    • Removed: Obsolete and insecure external resources from the legacy implementation.

20242 releases

  1. Genial Comments 1.7.5

    • Fix: Shortcode comments issue fixed.

  2. Genial Comments 1.7.4

    • Update: Added nonce and general capability checks to the per-post setting.
    • Update: Quality check done.

20231 release

  1. Genial Comments 1.7.3

    • Fix: Minor bugs fixed.
    • Update: Quality check done.

20222 releases

  1. Genial Comments 1.7.2

    • Update: EU notice message is now optional.
    • Update: FB crawler is now optional.
    • Added: Shortcode crawler added. (optional)

  2. Genial Comments 1.7.1

    • Update: Modified post types support.
    • Fix: Warning messages fixed.
    • Fix: Notice messages fixed.

20212 releases

  1. Genial Comments 1.7

    • New: Option to allow comments on each post.
    • New: Notice for EU Facebook users.
    • New: Comments background color on shortcode.
    • Update: Modified post types support.
    • Update: Translations updated.
    • Update: Latest Facebook API and scripts.
    • Fix: Bugs fixed.

  2. Genial Comments 1.6

    • New: Comments background color option for dark themes.
    • Update: Latest Facebook API and scripts.
    • Fix: Bugs fixed.

20201 release

  1. Genial Comments 1.5

    • New: Option to show comments before SSL.
    • New: Translation ready.
    • Fix: Minor bugs fixed.

20192 releases

  1. Genial Comments 1.4

    • New: Completely redesigned.
    • New: WordPress standardized.
    • New: Security framework.

  2. Genial Comments 1.3

    • Update: Gutenberg ready.
    • New: Pro version launched.
    • Modify: Quality standards applied.
    • Fix: Comments box size issue when logged in.

20182 releases

  1. Genial Comments 1.2

    • New: Now available in multi languages.
    • Update: Translation updated.
    • Modify: Minor changes.
    • Fix: Bug fixed when update post.

  2. Genial Comments 1.1

    • New: shortcode [gs-fb-comments] for pages or anywhere at your site.
    • Update: Translation updated.
    • Modify: Minor changes.

20171 release

  1. Genial Comments 1.0

    • First release.
    • Facebook comments

Questions about Genial Comments’s releases

What is the latest version of Genial Comments?

1.8.3, released on Oct 23, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Genial Comments updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 11 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2017.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Genial Comments’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.