Latest comments on static page

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

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.

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?