Problems with wpDiscuz Widget

Posted by: @johannes

I am not happy with the html markup of the widget. It is unfortunate that you give the titel a <h1> and wrapped it into a <center> tag. Do you offer filters to change the markup to make the widget look more like my other widgets?

You can enable the "Use theme's widget title structure" option. It's located in the Dashboard > wpDiscuz > Settings > Addons > Widgets admin page. 

When activating the setting to show the user avatar, I noticed that when also using Ultimate Member, the avatar is not shown, but rather a grey placeholder image. So there seems to be a problem as well. 

We're going to check this. If it's possible, we'll include it in the next version of the addon. 

Hey Astghik,

Thanks for your asnwer. I was actually using the widget that came with the main plugin (Comment Search). The UM profile pictures work fine with the widget extension I now installed. 

There are a lot of problems with the widgets though, which leave me a bit baffled.

You can view the widget on my website here: https://www.meeplemansion.de/spiele/the-witcher-the-old-world/the-witcher-the-old-world-ist-live-auf-kickstarter/#widget_comments

1. Enabling "Use theme's widget title structure" does not really make the widgets compatible to my theme's structure.
   • The problem is the div "widget-comments-container", which breaks the layout: https://ibb.co/ctwNj7V I would like to be able to remove this div wrapper.
   • Also, it is not possible to set the title to not be centered. 
2. I am not sure why this is the case but there are lots of design inconsistencies regarding the different tabs. It almost seems like each tab has been designed on its own without regard to the other ones. 
   • I activated the following tabs: "Recent Comments" (tab 1), "Most Voted Comments" (tab 2), and "Active Commenters" (tab 3).
   • There is a grey circle around the avatar images for the first and third tab. However, for the second tab (most voted comments), this circle is black and not grey. 
   • Also, the position for the date of the comment changes from tab to tab.
     • Tab 1: https://ibb.co/mFs052x
     • Tab 2: https://ibb.co/V9PCGtC
     • This is inconsistent, confusing and does not look very good
   • In addition, links to comments and the their respective posts work differently from tab to tab: 
     • Tab 1: Headline links to comment's post, comment text links to comment's URL. 
     • Tab 2: Headline links to comment's URL, comment text is not a link at all. 
     • Tab 3: For some reason, only my name and avatar link to my user profile, the other users' names and avatars do not link at all. 

I am really not happy with the widget extension. There are some problems that can be fixed with custom CSS, but as I paid for the plugin, I am unwilling to fix stuff that, in my opinion, should work out of the box. Trying to set up the widget, I get the impression that this extension hasn't been touched in a long time and needs a complete overall. 

Regards

Johannes