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1. jo6891
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi there... is there a way to display latest comments on a static home page? Not latest comments from that page, but latest comments from any post within the blog?? Thanks in advance...

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   try this code in your static page
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245331?replies=13
   last response

3. jo6891
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi, thanks for your response,

   I was actually just looking for the latest comments only and not the comment form. Maybe the latest 5 comments or so. Is there any way to do this without touching the actual comments template, as I will want to use this for pages within the blog section.

   Thanks again

4. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I think that it is easy enough to do if you just want to see the comment:

   <?php
   $comments = get_comments('status=approve&number=5');
     foreach($comments as $comm) :?>
       Who: <?php echo($comm->comment_author);?><br />
       What they said: <?php echo($comm->comment_content);?><br />
       When they said it: <?php echo($comm->comment_date);?><br />
     <?php endforeach;?>

   The problem that I had was that I wanted to show the post title (because it was going on the homepage). So I used the simple_recent_comments plugin (http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/15/simple-recent-comments-wordpress-plugin/)

   There's only the one php to upload and I even managed to hack around in the code to alternate the bg color of each entry (and I'm not a proper coder!).

   Hope this helps

5. denzel2364
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   How do you make the titles link? Its exactly what i want but its just echo.

   regards

6. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This might be a little late, but I think that I have cracked it!

   <?php
   $comments = get_comments('status=approve&number=5');
     foreach($comments as $comment) :?>
   
     <?php $my_id = $comment->comment_post_ID ; $post_id_comms = get_post($my_id); $title = $post_id_comms->post_title;?> 
   
       Who: <?php echo($comment->comment_author);?><br />
       About: <a href="<?php get_permalink($comment->ID)?>#comment-<?php echo $comment->comment_post_ID?>" title="on <?php echo $title ?>"><?php echo $title ?></a><br />
       What they said: <?php echo($comment->comment_content);?><br />
       When they said it: <?php echo($comment->comment_date);?><br />
     <?php endforeach;?>

   hope this helps.

7. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Strike that. I wasn't echoing the permalink and also it resolved to the wrong thing.

   this is now working.

   <?php
   $comments = get_comments('status=approve&number=5');
     foreach($comments as $comment) :?>
   
     <?php $my_id = $comment->comment_post_ID ; $post_id_comms = get_post($my_id); $title = $post_id_comms->post_title;?> 
   
       Who: <?php echo($comment->comment_author);?><br />
       About: <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($my_id) ?>#comment-<?php echo $comment->comment_post_ID?>" title="on <?php echo $title ?>"><?php echo $title ?></a><br />
       What they said: <?php echo($comment->comment_content);?><br />
       When they said it: <?php echo($comment->comment_date);?><br />
   
     <?php endforeach;?>

8. myusernameok
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi nathan12343.

   Your code worked great but what Im trying to add is a way of displaying how many other comments are on the post. All the ways I am trying returns a zero count.

   Any ideas?

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