Add recent comments


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Add a list of recent comments from the wordpress database


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  1. <?php
  2. $pre_HTML ="";
  3. $post_HTML ="";
  4. global $wpdb;
  5. $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password = '' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10";
  6.  
  7. $comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
  8. $output = $pre_HTML;
  9. $output .= "\n<ul>";
  10. foreach ($comments as $comment) {
  11. $output .= "\n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author) .":" . "<a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID)."#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on ".$comment->post_title . "\">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt)."</a></li>";
  12. }
  13. $output .= "\n</ul>";
  14. $output .= $post_HTML;
  15. echo $output;
  16. ?>

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