Title: adding recent comment sidebar Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # adding recent comment sidebar * [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/) * How do i creat a recent comment sidebar for my blog where readers would view a few words from the most recent comments posted on the blog on the right hand side . I went to appearance, widget , plug in and downloaded a recent comment plug in and saved the folder to my hard drive. Now how do i paste or maybe a better word is how do i paste it into a folder in my blog if thats what needs to be done so the recent comment link will appear on my blog. Several people have responded but they are not helping me by posting a widget link. Where do i paste the html link on my blog? Is it a folder i paste it to? Im downloading and activating plugs in’s but no recent comments are appearing on my blog . PLease explain step by step thank you Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/page/2/?output_format=md) * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754331) * Check this if is what you looking for * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-comments-with-gravatar/screenshots/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-comments-with-gravatar/screenshots/) * Thread Starter [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754350) * No good. i downloaded the zip file but did not open it. Uploaded it to plug in directory. Tried to activate it and error message came up “cannot upload file because of fatal error * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754351) * did you try and install from with in admin as I did not have problem installing within admin. * Thread Starter [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754359) * I dont think i know where it is Kind of new with wordpress so excuse me for not knowing, but where is admin link ? * Thread Starter [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754360) * I got a bunch of stuff on the left hand side. dashboard, media, link, widgets, plug in tools, etc etc which one do i click on to get to administrator page ? * Thread Starter [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754362) * Oh i see what your saying did i log in as the admin? Yes i did . I have a user name and password . Logged in with the user name and tried installing under upload new plug in link on left hand side did not work * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754377) * Log in admin click on plugin click Add New in the search bar enter the plug in name recent comments with gravatar and click on search its the first one clcik on install once installed click on activate. * than to add to side bar click widgets you will one them on left drag it and put in side bar on right and configure it the way it. * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754378) * Log in admin click on plugin click Add New in the search bar enter the plug in name recent comments with gravatar and click on search its the first one clcik on install once installed click on activate. * then to add to side bar click widgets you will see one them on left drag it and put in side bar on right and configure it the way you want it. * Thread Starter [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754384) * didnt realize what might be causing the problem. Apparantly the recent comments with gravatar is installed somewhere because when the activate button says “installed” after i searched through plugins When i go to widget it says NO Sidebars defined. I am using almost spring 1.1 as the theme and its not widget aware. It then tells me to click a link that says follow instructions. When i click that it gives me a bunch of HTML codes. I have no idea which one to use or if these are just examples and not made to copy paste into a folder. * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754387) * If you have a text widget in widgets use that and paste html code in that widget. * Thread Starter [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754408) * There are over 1000 widgets on the widget page very complicated. Which one do i copy and where do i paste it ? I dont know what you mean by pasting a code into a widget. I had no idea i would have to go through this much complicated aggravation just to install a recent comment sidebar on my blog * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754410) * There are thousands of themes as well and it very hard to know how your theme is designed I looked for it repository and did not see it. * Thread Starter [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * (@videoman882) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754462) * [http://beautifulbrian.com/blog1/](http://beautifulbrian.com/blog1/) * This is my blog i am a competitive eater and my blog focus on the sport . There is also another blog called [eatfeats.com](http://eatfeats.com/) which has a layout similar to mine and uses the recent comments on the right hand side. Check both out and let me know what you think * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754476) * As I said if I could find that theme I can install on my test test and see why you having problem adding comments widget * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/#post-1754477) * > I am using almost spring 1.1 as the theme and its not widget aware. * Then you need to make it widget aware. See [Widgetizing_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes). Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘adding recent comment sidebar’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 18 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [videoman882](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videoman882/) * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-recent-comment-sidebar/page/2/#post-1754490) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics