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How to display recent comments without plugin?

Posted by Chada on September 26, 2008 – 10:08 pm

After Display random posts without plugin and Display popular posts without plugin, I want to show you anther WordPress hack skill – display recent comments without plugin.

Copy the codes below and paste them to your theme where you want to display recent posts:

				     < ?php
    global $wpdb;
 
    $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID,
    comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved,
    comment_type,comment_author_url,
    SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt
    FROM $wpdb-&gt;comments
    LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb-&gt;posts ON ($wpdb-&gt;comments.comment_post_ID =
    $wpdb-&gt;posts.ID)
    WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND
    post_password = ''
    ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC
    LIMIT 10";
    $comments = $wpdb-&gt;get_results($sql);
 
    $output = $pre_HTML;
    $output .= "\n
<ul>";
    foreach ($comments as $comment) {
 
    $output .= "\n
	<li>".strip_tags($comment-&gt;comment_author)
    .":" . "<a href="\">ID) .
    "#comment-" . $comment-&gt;comment_ID . "\" title=\"on " .
    $comment-&gt;post_title . "\"&gt;" . strip_tags($comment-&gt;com_excerpt)
    ."</a></li>
";
 
    }
    $output .= "\n
";
    $output .= $post_HTML;
 
    echo $output;?>

I hope this tip is useful for you!

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  1. 1. paul Said:

    Erk… I’m getting an unencapsulated string error, any ideas? :(

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