Comments on: Simple-Recent-Comments WordPress Plugin

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:47:42 +0000

Is there a way to get it to list the name of the post where it gives the comment excerpt?

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:19:49 +0000

Nver mind, please delete my moronic question because it *does* work. I should have tested it first!

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:09:32 +0000

I know you aren’t supporting this because you probably have to do some paying work in order to eat, but I wanted to ask if it’s possible to use this within the body of the post, with a few mods. I’m not all that familiar with how to move things in and out of the sidebar and keep wordpress happy so I thought I’d ask.

Thanks for creating this!

By: GNot

GNot — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:41:25 +0000

Hi Henre. It is possible by modifying line 83 in the plugin source. I intend to add some pre-defined formats of displaying the recent comments in future versions, but currently I do not have the time for this.

By: Henre

Henre — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:05:20 +0000

Hi, sorry to be a pest. But is there anyway to change the code so that the permalink is displayed next to author name and the excerpt displayed as tooltip?

thanks

By: Payam

Payam — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:47:30 +0000

Hello,

I’ve tried everything to format the list of recent comments, but none of them are getting formatted. I created a style and set it as an id to the li style… nothing…

Can someone help me out? You can look at my site and see how it looks… I want each comment to have a little bullet in front…

Thanks!

By: dave

dave — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:14:24 +0000

awesome plugin. really appreciated your clear installation instructions.

By: Torley

Torley — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:03:09 +0000

GNot, thank you very much for the detailed help! I was confused about that, I think, and you helped clarify it. Much appreciation. :)

By: GNot

GNot — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:27:31 +0000

Hi Torley,
This is how the plugin works:
1. It retrieves the first N characters of each comment (by default N is 60 characters, but it can be customized). These N character contain both the actual comment and any possible HTML tags.
2. Each comment becomes a list item. Any HTML tags are stripped and the “…” is added at the end of the comment.

So, if the comment has formating HTML tags in the first, for example, 60 characters, for example:

Test test testing for Torley test end

Then this is what will appear as the comment:

Test test ...

As you can see, the “testing for Torley” part is completely missing because it is after the 60th character of the comment.

This is not a bug. Only the specified number of characters is retrieved from the database for each comment, so to reduce the server load. This functionality is not going to change. Sorry.

By: Torley

Torley — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:42:28 +0000

Interesting, Gnot. I still see the ellipsis on your site, even after I styled the text. I wonder what’s different on mine… I’ll do some more digging…