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->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password = '' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10"; $comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql); $output = $pre_HTML; $output .= "\n <ul>"; foreach ($comments as $comment) { $output .= "\n <li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author) .":" . "<a href="\">ID) . "#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on " . $comment->post_title . "\">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt) ."</a></li> "; } $output .= "\n "; $output .= $post_HTML; echo $output;?>
I hope this tip is useful for you!
February 17th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Erk… I’m getting an unencapsulated string error, any ideas?