morganstar

The bug you described still exists in WordPress 2.3.2 when comments occur after the Recent Posts widget. I have written code which replaces the faulty portion of the Recent Posts widget, providing the same functionality but without interfering with comments.

You will need to edit wp-includes/widgets.php as follows:

REMOVE OR COMMENT OUT THE FOLLOWING:

$r = new WP_Query("showposts=$number&what_to_show=posts&nopaging=0&post_status=publish");
	if ($r->have_posts()) :
?>
		<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
			<?php echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>
			<ul>
			<?php  while ($r->have_posts()) : $r->the_post(); ?>
			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php if ( get_the_title() ) the_title(); else the_ID(); ?> </a></li>
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			</ul>
		<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?php
	endif;

REPLACE THAT WITH:

// BEGIN Recent Comments patch added by Morgan
	global $wpdb;
	$recent_posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status='publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $number");
	echo $before_widget;
	echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
	echo "<ul>\n";
	foreach($recent_posts as $recent_post)
	{
		$recent_url = ($recent_post->guid)?$recent_post->guid:"/index.php?p=$recent_post->ID";

		echo "<li><a href='$recent_url'>".$recent_post->post_title."</a></li>\n";
	}

	echo "</ul>\n";
	echo $after_widget;
	// END Recent Comments patch added by Morgan

~ Morgan Sherwood
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