Mobster

A while back I edited a version needing updated badly. I don’t remember were I got it but this plugin seems to work fine in 2.8

The Plugin:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Recent Comments with Gravatar:
Version: 0.2
Description: Recent Comments with Gravatar. Editied for WordPress  2.8.0
Author: Unknown
*/

function recent_comments($g_size = 30, $no_comments = 10, $comment_lenth = 60, $show_pass_post = false) {
        global $wpdb, $tablecomments, $tableposts;

        $request = "SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author, comment_author_email FROM $tableposts, $tablecomments WHERE $tableposts.ID=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID AND post_status = 'publish' ";

        if(!$show_pass_post) { $request .= "AND post_password ='' "; }

        $request .= "AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY $tablecomments.comment_date DESC LIMIT $no_comments";
        $comments = $wpdb->get_results($request);

        foreach ($comments as $comment) {
		$comment_id = $comment->comment_ID;
		$comment_content = strip_tags($comment->comment_content);
		$comment_excerpt = mb_substr($comment_content, 0, $comment_lenth)." [...]";
		$permalink = get_permalink($comment->ID)."#comment-".$comment->comment_ID;
		$comment_author_email = $comment->comment_author_email;

   echo '<div class="gravitar">';
   echo "<p class=\"li".$comment_id."\">";
		if (function_exists('get_avatar')) {
					  if ('' == $comment->comment_type) {
						 echo get_avatar($comment->comment_author_email, 40);
					  } elseif ( ('trackback' == $comment->comment_type) || ('pingback' == $comment->comment_type) ) {
						 echo get_avatar($comment->comment_author_url, 40);
					  }
				   } elseif (function_exists('gravatar')) {
					  echo "<img src=\"";
					  if ('' == $comment->comment_type) {
						 echo gravatar($comment->comment_author_email);
					  } elseif ( ('trackback' == $comment->comment_type) || ('pingback' == $comment->comment_type) ) {
						 echo gravatar($comment->comment_author_url);
					  }
					  echo "\" alt=\"\" class=\"avatar\" />";
				   }

    echo "</p>\n";
    echo '</div>' ;

            echo '<div class="comments_exrpt">';
			echo " <a href=\"" . $permalink . "\" title=\"View the entire comment\">";
			echo $comment_excerpt;
			echo "</a>";
			echo '</div>' ;

	            }

}
?>

Add this to your theme:

<?php
  if(function_exists('recent_comments')) {
  	recent_comments(30, 10, 100, false);
  }
?>

css:

.comments_exrpt{margin-bottom:15px;width:260px;}
.comments_exrpt a{color:#ffc;font-family:Verdana;font-size:65.5%;}

Sorry whooami,

I wasn’t trying to add to your work load 🙂

Happy Holidays!