Title: Comments excerpt
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments excerpt

 *  [richarduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richarduk/)
 * (@richarduk)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-excerpt/)
 * Anyone any idea how to get comments excertps working?
 *     ```
       <?php if ($comments) : ?>
       <?php comment_excerpt(); ?>    <a href="   <?php comments_link(); ?>">Read more about this comment!</a>
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * This is my attempt to get comments excerpts on index.php, no joy so far

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 *  [whybonus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whybonus/)
 * (@whybonus)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-excerpt/#post-536653)
 * it must be used within the loop, are you sure you use it right?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [whybonus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whybonus/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-excerpt/#post-536653)
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