The General Settings section controls how and when comments are lazy loaded on your posts and pages. You can find it under Comments → Lazy Load in your WordPress admin, on the General tab.
Comments are loaded automatically as soon as the visitor scrolls down close to the comments area. This is the default option and gives the smoothest experience.
Use this setting to lazy load comments only when a post has a certain number of comments or more. Posts with fewer comments than this value will load their comments normally.
This is a number input field. The minimum allowed value is 1.
Expected value: a whole number, 1 or greater. Default: 1.
Note
With the default value of 1, posts that have no comments yet are not lazy loaded — the comment form is shown normally so visitors can still leave the first comment.
When enabled, a small loading spinner is displayed while the comments are being fetched in the background. Disable it if you prefer no visual indicator.
When enabled, comments are loaded normally (not lazy loaded) for search engine bots and crawlers. This keeps your comment content visible to search engines so it stays indexable.
This is an on/off toggle.
Expected value:On or Off. Default: On.
Recommended
Keep this setting enabled. Lazy loaded comments are fetched with JavaScript, and leaving this on ensures search engines still see the comment content for SEO.
General Settings
The General Settings section controls how and when comments are lazy loaded on your posts and pages. You can find it under Comments → Lazy Load in your WordPress admin, on the General tab.
Load Method
This setting decides when the comments should be loaded on a single post or page.
This is a dropdown (select) input with three options:
On Scroll
Comments are loaded automatically as soon as the visitor scrolls down close to the comments area. This is the default option and gives the smoothest experience.
On Button Click
Comments are not loaded until the visitor clicks the Load Comments button. The button can be customised on the Load Button Settings tab.
Disabled (load normally)
Lazy loading is turned off completely. Comments load together with the rest of the page, exactly like the default WordPress behaviour.
Expected value:
On Scroll,On Button Click, orDisabled (load normally). Default:On Scroll.Minimum Comments
Use this setting to lazy load comments only when a post has a certain number of comments or more. Posts with fewer comments than this value will load their comments normally.
This is a number input field. The minimum allowed value is
1.Expected value: a whole number,
1or greater. Default:1.Note
With the default value of
1, posts that have no comments yet are not lazy loaded — the comment form is shown normally so visitors can still leave the first comment.Show Loading Spinner
When enabled, a small loading spinner is displayed while the comments are being fetched in the background. Disable it if you prefer no visual indicator.
This is an on/off toggle.
Expected value:
OnorOff. Default:On.Disable for Search Engines
When enabled, comments are loaded normally (not lazy loaded) for search engine bots and crawlers. This keeps your comment content visible to search engines so it stays indexable.
This is an on/off toggle.
Expected value:
OnorOff. Default:On.Recommended
Keep this setting enabled. Lazy loaded comments are fetched with JavaScript, and leaving this on ensures search engines still see the comment content for SEO.