Normally, we will put a recent comment widget on the sidebar of our blog. That widget will show all recent comments taken from all posts. But now, we want to do something different. We want to show the recent comment(s) for each of our post on the main page. Something like the Gizmodo (but of course they are not using WordPress). The recent comment(s) can be shown under each post, or next to it, depends on your theme and CSS styling. It will definitely look good on a grid theme.
Code Implementation
Here is the way to implement it. Open your index.php file, and paste the following code inside the Loop, anywhere before the <?php endwhile; ?>. Preferably after <?php the_content(); ?>.
<!-- recent comment of each post -->
<div class="recent-comment">
<?php
$comment_array = array_reverse(get_approved_comments($wp_query->post->ID));
$count = 1;
?>
<?php if ($comment_array) { ?>
<span class="comment"> <?php comments_number('No comment','1 comment','% comments'); ?></span> - Latest by:
<ul class="commentlist">
<?php foreach($comment_array as $comment){ ?>
<?php if ($count++ <= 2) { ?>
<li><?php comment_author_link(); ?> <br /> <?php comment_excerpt(); ?> </li>
<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
<?php } else { ?> <!-- if there was no comment in that post,yet -->
<span class="comment">No comment so far</span>
<?php } ?>
</div>
<!-- end recent comment-->
Some explanation: this will fetch comment for each post, with the help of Post ID and will display latest 2 comments. You can change that count to any number you want. You just have to modify the line that says <?php if ($count++ <= 2) { ?>. Simple, right?
CSS styling
I am not providing any CSS examples for this one because you can do whatever you want with it. Put a light background color or image, style the heading, the <li> tag and so on. Make sure you use class rather than ID though.
Example
There is no Live preview for this purpose but I have a screenshot for you. I am using my FTW2.o theme for this example.
Be creative with your CSS and post meta data arrangement. Good luck!
37 comments — Post a comment ↓
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09 Aug 08 / #wahh, sekarang dah start experiment dgn php dah.
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10 Aug 08 / #nice idea.
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10 Aug 08 / #Cool ni flisterz.
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10 Aug 08 / #Thanks, I’ve been wondering about this!
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16 Aug 08 / #bro.. boleh bagi code tak untuk bezakan admin dengan user punya komen… tq
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16 Aug 08 / #Very good idea. Thanks for this usefull tutorial!
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09 Oct 08 / #I don’t quite understand why people waste their time configuring/modding/editing WP themes and config files while you can create your own blog engine with a bit more knowledge in PHP/JSP/ASP scripting.
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03 Nov 08 / #this is very nice but i bumped into a problem, how do you modify the text colors or even the size of the comments?
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Terry —
21 Mar 09 / #This is great, but it also shows the comments on my About Us and Contact Us pages, which I don’t want to happen. Can I put another IF statement in the routine to check for the page its on? What do I check for (in fact where can I find a list of the variables/functions available in WP to use)?
Terry —
24 Mar 09 / #Whew, I did a lot of searching and learned a lot. In the end, I was able to solve my own problem! To get the comments ONLY on the main page:
Just after:
I inserted this line:
Then just after the last
I inserted this line:
Now it shows the comments only on my home page!
Terry —
24 Mar 09 / #Son of a gun! How was I to know I couldn’t put PHP code in a post!
RaiulBaztepo —
29 Mar 09 / #Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
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Denise Young —
27 Apr 09 / #How can this be changes to show the whole comment - rather than just an excerpt?
flisterz —
27 Apr 09 / #@Denise Young: You can replace the
< ?php comment_excerpt(); ?>to< ?php comment_text(); ?>Dustin Marson —
29 Apr 09 / #Thanks, I searched forever for this. I’m your newest fan.
mike —
05 May 09 / #This is a great piece of code!!
However, when the user clicks to add a new comment, or if the user goes to the specific post page, the comments are now shown twice because of the comments_template.php
Is there a way to modify this code so that it only displays on the home page?
mike —
05 May 09 / #I figured out on my own that if I add an if (is_home()) statement around the whole piece of code it works great!! Only displays this code on the homepage.
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07 May 09 / #This is exactly what I was looking for, and found a link to your site in the WP forums. Thank you!
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22 May 09 / #Great stuff; thanks very much.
Now I’d like to make the excerpt a link back to the full list of comments for the post…
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