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1. freespeed
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi, am having problems with displaying the 5 latest comments as excerpts on a home page. I have used the following code which displays the latest 5 comments nicely, but I have trawled the codex and google to find how to reduce the content of the comments to an excerpt. I know there is get_comment_excerpt but I am not sure how to include it in the following code.

   Also, I want to restrict the comments from the Feedback page to display (page id =119), is that possible?

   The site is here

   The code I am currently using in the sidebar is:

   <li class="recentcom">
   <h2>Latest Feedback</h2>
   <ul class="recent-comment">
   <?php
   $comments = get_comments('number=4');
     foreach($comments as $comm) :
   
     $url = '<a href="'. get_permalink($comm->comment_post_ID).'#comment-'.$comm->comment_ID .'" title="'.$comm->comment_author .' | '.get_the_title($comm->comment_post_ID).'">' . $comm->comment_author . '</a>';
   ?>
   <li>
   <a><?php echo $url; ?></a>
   <p><?php echo $comm->comment_content; ?></p>
   </li>
   <?php
     endforeach;
   ?>
   </ul>
   </li>

   Any help would be much appreciated.

2. ekynoxe
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi freespeed, there is a function called comment_excerpt you can use to echo the comment excerpt of each comment. You can also use get_comment_excerpt if you don't want to echo it.

   It's all here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_excerpt

   Your code would look something like:

   <li class="recentcom">
   <h2>Latest Feedback</h2>
   <ul class="recent-comment">
   <?php
   $comments = get_comments('number=4');
     foreach($comments as $comm) :
   
     $url = '<a>comment_post_ID).'#comment-'.$comm->comment_ID .'" title="'.$comm->comment_author .' | '.get_the_title($comm->comment_post_ID).'">' . $comm->comment_author . '</a>';
   ?>
   
   <li>
   <a><?php echo $url; ?></a>
   <p><?php comment_excerpt( $comm->comment_ID ); ?></p>
   </li>
   <?php
     endforeach;
   ?>

   I hope this helps

3. ekynoxe
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I forgot to say, if you want to restrict the comments to page id 119, simply pass this id in the get_comments function parameters. Also, your code fetches the last 4, not 5 comments, see below:

   <?php
   $comments = get_comments('post_id=119&number=5');
   ...

   or
   

   <?php
   $comments = get_comments(array('post_id'=>119,'number'=>'5'));
   ...

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_comments

   regarding the get_comment_excerpt, the difference is that it does not echo the comment excerpt. In other words:

   <?php comment_excerpt( $comm->comment_ID ); ?>

   and

   <?php echo get_comment_excerpt( $comm->comment_ID ); ?>

   will do the same thing

4. freespeed
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Ekynoxe, that was a great help! All solved now.

5. alxvallejo
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Be sure to try both methods from above as only the get_comment_excerpt method worked on my script.

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